
Gael García Bernal
Gael García Bernal (born 30 November 1978) is a Mexican actor and producer. He is best known for his performances in the films Bad Education, The Motorcycle Diaries (where he played a young Che Guevara), Amores perros, Y tu mamá también, Babel, Coco, and Old, and for his role as Rodrigo de Souza in the Amazon Studios streaming television series Mozart in the Jungle. He and Diego Luna founded Canana Films in Mexico City.
García Bernal was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Motorcycle Diaries in 2005, and in 2016 won his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy for Mozart in the Jungle. In 2016, Time magazine named him in the annual Time 100 most influential people list. In 2020, The New York Times ranked him No. 25 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 18.532 |
Birthday | 1978-11-30 |
Place of Birth | Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
Also Known As | Gael Garcia Bernal, Gael García, Гаэль Гарсиа Берналь, گائل گارسیا برنال, |

2000

Amores Perros
7.628/2643
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his s...
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Amores Perros

2004

Bad Education
7.4/971
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the...
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Bad Education

2006

The Science of Sleep
6.992/770
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
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The Science of Sleep

2006

Babel
7.175/3780
In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the w...
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Babel

2002

The Crime of Padre Amaro
6.6/273
Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an...
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The Crime of Padre Amaro

2001

Y Tu Mamá También
7.4/1542
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
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Y Tu Mamá También

2004

The Motorcycle Diaries
7.423/1297
Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado h...
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The Motorcycle Diaries

2023

The Mother
6.639/1283
A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.
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The Mother

2025

Holland
0/0
Nancy is a teacher whose life with her husband in Holland, Michigan, tumbles into a twisted tale when she and her colleague become suspicious of a sec...
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Holland

2006

The King
6.1/61
A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian commun...
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The King

2008

Rudo & Cursi
7.1/204
Two brothers living a hard life of manual labor in rural Mexico have a simple dream: saving enough money to build their mother her dream house. But fa...
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Rudo & Cursi

2002

I'm with Lucy
5.382/34
It's an hour before Lucy's wedding and her best friend wants to hear all about what led up to that moment. So, Lucy tells about the five men she had b...
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I'm with Lucy

2024

Another End
7.1/37
Set in a near-future when a new technology exists that can put the consciousness of a dead person back into a living body, in an attempt to ease the g...
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Another End

2008

Blindness
6.5/1271
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of...
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Blindness

2009

The Limits of Control
6/279
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlik...
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The Limits of Control

2022

Werewolf by Night
6.991/1315
On a dark and somber night, a secret cabal of monster hunters emerge from the shadows and gather at the foreboding Bloodstone Temple following the dea...
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Werewolf by Night

2009

Mammoth
6.2/112
While on a trip to Thailand, a successful American businessman tries to radically change his life. Back in New York, his wife and daughter find their...
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Mammoth

2002

Fidel
5.2/12
Fidel Castro rises to power in Cuba.
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Fidel

2011

A Little Bit of Heaven
6.4/562
A guarded woman finds out she's dying of cancer but, when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death.
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A Little Bit of Heaven

2001

Don't Tempt Me
5.5/81
Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.
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Don't Tempt Me

2007

The Past
6.2/29
After 12 years, Sofía and Rímini decided to separate. While Rímini finds it easy to move on and start a new life, Sofía stays stuck in the past and co...
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The Past

2003

Dot the I
6.1/119
Young lovers in London are wrapped up in a love triangle that may not be exactly what it seems. Carmen, a beautiful Spanish woman with a tendency to l...
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Dot the I

2012

Casa de Mi Padre
5.378/304
Scheming of a way to save their father's ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord.
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Casa de Mi Padre

2012

The Loneliest Planet
5.6/62
Backpacking in the Caucasus Mountains, walking for hours, an engaged couple and their tour guide trade anecdotes and play games to pass the time, unti...
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The Loneliest Planet

2011

Even the Rain
6.9/266
As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privati...
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Even the Rain

2010

José & Pilar
7.333/27
A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and...
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José & Pilar

2007

Déficit
5.1/13
Cristóbal is the son of a corrupt politician with great power. Without his parents at home, he decides to have a party with his wealthy friends. In co...
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Déficit

2004

Traveling with Che Guevara
5.8/4
In 1952, Ernesto Guevara, then a medical student aged 23, and his friend Alberto Granado, a biologist of 29, began a long journey through the South Am...
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Traveling with Che Guevara

2012

No
7.189/433
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will...
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No

2001

Private Lives
3.8/13
Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentina), she returns to solve a family problem related...
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Private Lives

2023

This One Summer
5.4/32
Every summer, 10-year-old Dune goes with her parents to the south-west coast of France, where she meets her best friend Mathilde. Together, they explo...
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This One Summer

2013

Who Is Dayani Cristal?
6.5/9
An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for identity leads us back across a continent to s...
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Who Is Dayani Cristal?

2010

Hidalgo, Frenesí de Libertad
0/0
Heroes of Flesh and Bones
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Hidalgo, Frenesí de Libertad

2001

The Last Post
0/0
October 1982: War is waged between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands. A British soldier stumbles upon an Argentinean soldier. They shar...
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The Last Post

2014

Rosewater
6.477/176
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country...
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Rosewater

2007

Saint Death
5.1/4
In Mexico there is a cult that is rapidly growing- the cult of Saint Death. This female grim reaper, considered a saint by followers but Satanic by th...
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Saint Death

1996

De Tripas, Corazón
5/5
The coming-of-age story of young milkboy Martín (García Bernal). While his friends Jesús (Altomaro) and Roberto (Mora) are cocky and apparently they h...
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De Tripas, Corazón

2015

Desierto
6.186/369
A group of Mexican emigrants attempts to cross the Mexican-US border. What begins as a hopeful journey becomes a harrowing, bloody and primal fight fo...
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Desierto

2016

You're Killing Me Susana
6.6/108
An actor's world comes crashing down after he learns that his wife has left him.
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You're Killing Me Susana

2014

The Ardor
4.8/32
Kaí is a mysterious shaman who emerges from the Rio Paraná to help a poor farmer and his daughter, who are threatened by a band of cold-blooded mercen...
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The Ardor


Z
0/0
The western frontier reemerges. And as in the past, a hero answers the people's cry for justice.
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Z

2012

Vamps
5.3/272
The modern-day story focuses on two beautiful young vampires who are living the good nightlife in New York until love enters the picture and each has...
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Vamps

2003

Dreaming of Julia
5.6/5
The year is 1958, and in Holguín, Cuba, a boy's world is about to change forever.
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Dreaming of Julia

2022

Director by Night
6.2/21
Acclaimed composer Michael Giacchino made his directorial debut with Marvel Studios' Special Presentation "Werewolf by Night." This behind-the-scenes...
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Director by Night

2008

Chevolution
5.8/11
Examines the history and legacy of the photo Guerrillero Heroico taken by famous Cuban photographer Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez. This image has thrived for...
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Chevolution

2015

Zoom
5.74/102
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about...
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Zoom

2015

Eva Doesn't Sleep
5.015/34
In 1952, Argentina's beloved First Lady, Eva Perón, died of cancer at the age of thirty-three. A renowned embalmer was commissioned by the grieving Ju...
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Eva Doesn't Sleep

2016

Salt and Fire
4.8/75
A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they...
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Salt and Fire

2004

Impressions from the Shoot: Making Bad Education
0/0
A short featurette of behind the scenes footage from Almodóvar’s Bad Education (2004).
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Impressions from the Shoot: Making Bad Education

2016

Neruda
6.32/258
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of...
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Neruda

2020

Perros, amores, accidentes
0/0
A three-part documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the production of Amores perros.
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Perros, amores, accidentes

2011

Breaking the Taboo
7.1/32
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this groundbreaking new documentary uncovers the UN sanctioned war on drugs, charting its origins and its devastating impa...
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Breaking the Taboo

2017

Coco
8.206/19752
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desp...
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Coco

2001

The Eye on the Nape
0/0
This is the story of Pablo, a young uruguayan exiled in México, whose father was disappeared during the military dictatorship.
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The Eye on the Nape

2017

If You Saw His Heart
4.3/22
Cast out of his insular community, a damaged and down on his luck man teeters between a life of crime and the path to redemption.
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If You Saw His Heart

2018

Museo
6.6/136
Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running away w...
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Museo

2018

The Kindergarten Teacher
6.6/350
Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she beco...
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The Kindergarten Teacher

2001

Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También'
5.7/3
On-set documentary about the making of the film "Y tu mamá también."
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Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También'

2018

The Accused
6.6/176
Dolores lived the life of a higher-class student until her best friend was found brutally murdered. Two years later, she’s the only indicted suspect f...
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The Accused

2019

Ema
6.8/222
Ema is a magnetic and impulsive dancer in a reggaeton troupe. Her toxic marriage to choreographer Gastón is beyond repair, following a decision to giv...
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Ema

2020

Wasp Network
6.047/381
Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a...
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Wasp Network

2010

Los Invisibles
0/0
This short documentary reviews the lives and experiences of mexican and centroamerican migrants as they try to reach the US border.
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Los Invisibles

2019

It Must Be Heaven
6.497/159
Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.
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It Must Be Heaven

2021

Old
6.334/4506
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing th...
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Old

2023

Cassandro
6.7/117
The true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso that rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, t...
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Cassandro

2010

Letters to Juliet
7/2890
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona cour...
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Letters to Juliet


Monkey Hill
0/0
An heiress accused of a white-collar crime hides away with her husband at a luxury resort in an Indian holy city. In deep denial of the growing scanda...
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Monkey Hill

2007

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
0/0
The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges...
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Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

2025

Bethlehem
0/0
Mary flees with her newborn son to protect him from the murderous King Herod's attempt to find and kill the child. A retelling of the Biblical tale of...
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