
Demián Bichir
Demián Bichir Nájera (August 1, 1963, height 5' 10" (1,78 m)) is a Mexican actor. Both of his parents, Alejandro Bichir and Maricruz Nájera, and brothers Odiseo and Bruno Bichir are actors. He was married to singer Lisset Gutiérrez.
He started his acting career at the age of 14 in the telenovela Rina with Ofelia Medina. His second acting role was as an adult in Vivir enamorada both telenovelas were during his years with Televisa. The following year he obtained a role in his first movie, the American production Choices of the Heart. He then continued his acting roles in telenovelas with film productions of Mexico, Spain and the United States. His movie Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (1999) broke box-office records in Mexico becoming the #1 movie in the history of Mexican cinema until El crimen del Padre Amaro. The MTV Movie Awards-México created a special category "Mejor Bichir en una Película" ("Best Bichir in a movie") because of the many films the Bichir siblings act in every year. He earned this award for Bendito infierno, in which he co-stars with Victoria Abril, Penélope Cruz and Gael García Bernal. His American debut occurred when he depicted Fidel Castro in Steven Soderbergh's 2008 biopic Che, on the life of revolutionary Che Guevara.
Recently he has been exposed to a wider American audience with his recurring role as Esteban Reyes, the corrupt mayor of Tijuana and love interest of Nancy Botwin in the fourth, fifth and sixth seasons of the Showtime comedy series Weeds.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.242 |
Birthday | 1963-08-01 |
Place of Birth | Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
Also Known As | Demián Bichir Nájera, Demian Bichir, Damián Bechir , 데미안 비쉬어, 達米安·畢契爾, دمیان بیچیر, |

1999

Sex, Shame & Tears
6.7/125
A comedic drama featuring two couples and two old friends in Mexico City. Tomas visits Carlos and Ana, while Miguel and Andrea are joined by Maria. Th...
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2023

Chupa
6.347/344
While visiting family in Mexico, a lonely boy befriends a mythical creature hiding on his grandfather's ranch and embarks on the adventure of a lifeti...
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2008

Che: Part Two
6.7/625
After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a sma...
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Che: Part Two

2008

Che: Part One
6.8/751
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobili...
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Che: Part One

1996

Solo
4.74/75
An android fighting-machine is charged with destroying a small brigade of rebels in a Latin American war who are fighting to maintain their freedom an...
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Solo

2000

Todo el poder
6.5/31
Gabriel is a filmmaker in Mexico City, where he is a victim of crime and violence sometimes even three times a day. This is a black comedy that shows...
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Todo el poder

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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1990

Red Dawn
8.1/117
On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.
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2014

Nordic Noir - The Rise of Scandi Drama
0/0
A documentary that investigates the phenomenon of Scandinavian crime drama and its worldwide success.
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1999

Santitos
4.8/11
After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza t...
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2007

Beyond the Sky
7/61
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2010

The Runway
6.1/10
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2004

Hipnos
5.3/33
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2010

Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada
4.3/12
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2012

Savages
6.349/2156
Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
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1996

Recipes to Stay Together
5.6/11
"Cilantro y perejil" is a comedy about couples from the same family, hit by the economic crisis in Mexico. The plot turns around the eternal question...
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2011

A Better Life
7.203/229
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for t...
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2011

The Dream of Ivan
5.6/21
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2013

Machete Kills
5.6/1910
Ex-Federale agent Machete is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man – he must take...
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1993

Married Life
4.6/7
Jacqueline (Bonilla) and Nicolas (Echanove) are so in love that they decide to get married "until death takes them apart". When love dies and infideli...
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Married Life

1994

Ya la hicimos
4.3/7
Virginia and Nacho, is a poor marriage, living precariously on their meager salaries, insufficient to support his child nine years of age. Until fortu...
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2013

The Heat
6.6/3954
Uptight and straight-laced, FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence--and hyper-arrogance. Shanno...
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2002

Dark Cities
5.167/6
Adapted by writer/director Fernando Sariñana from the stories by Juan Madrid, Ciudades Oscuras (Dark Cities) tells a story of interwoven lives in the...
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2013

Dom Hemingway
5.8/509
After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect...
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2005

American Visa
6.8/25
After being denied an American visa, a Bolivian professor becomes involved in a web of criminal activities, holds-up the American consulate and falls...
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1987

Hotel Colonial
5.313/16
Marco Veniera goes to Bogota, Columbia to find his brother, Luca who supposedly committed suicide. In his search, he meets fiery and exotic Irene Cost...
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2013

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
6.6/8
Revisits President John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy through 21 of the more than 800,000 condolence letters written to Jackie Kennedy after JFK's...
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2024

Without Blood
0/0
In a frontier landscape at the beginning of the 20th century, gunmen descend on a remote farmhouse, determined to exact revenge. Their target, a docto...
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1993

Miroslava
6.1/8
The beautiful and popular movie star Miroslava is depressed tonight. As she prepares her suicide, her entire life is revealed on screen in a disturbin...
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1997

Dance with the Devil
6.6/199
She's sexy, shameless and loves taking people to their limit. She's a dangerous young woman who dreams about a jaguar that licks her naked body and sl...
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2024

A Circus Tale & A Love Song
6/3
Refugio, a romantic dreamer whose years long quest to find true love takes him from the circus life in Mexico to the nightlife of New Orleans, where h...
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2007

Mosquita muerta
5/2
Marcelo and Sofía love each other, but both suspect the other of infidelity. Marcelo, a film director, accidentally discovers condoms in Sofías purse...
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2014

Words with Gods
5.7/8
The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the wor...
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2014

Death in Buenos Aires
5.9/61
In the 1980s, after a businessman is murdered at his home, an experienced police inspector and his rookie partner must delve into the gay scene of the...
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2013

Before We Are Forgotten
5/1
In 2006 Mexico declared war on drug trafficking and since then, violence spread like wildfire throughout the country. Until today more than 120,000 pe...
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2001

In the Time of the Butterflies
6.5/38
Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are ki...
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1995

Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
7/32
A hit man searches for an alcoholic prostitute who has witnessed a crime and fled to Madrid.
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2017

Lowriders
6.695/110
A young street artist in East Los Angeles is caught between his father's obsession with lowrider car culture, his ex-felon brother and his need for se...
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2011

Foreverland
6.5/21
A sufferer of cystic fibrosis travels to a legendary shrine that reputedly has the power to heal his condition.
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1994

Hasta Morir
5.2/8
A street kid's wish to run away to Tijuana is hampered by lies and betrayal
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1999

Ave María
4.6/5
In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people.
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Ave María

2009

Enemigos íntimos
4.8/5
Tells the stories of eight characters suffering from different ailments: a doctor who does not acknowledge his homosexuality, a woman who refuses to a...
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2015

The Hateful Eight
7.756/14342
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
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2016

Good Kids
6.3/313
Four high school students look to redefine themselves after graduation.
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2019

QT8: The First Eight
7.177/164
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scanda...
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2020

Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe
7.3/3
Before The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It began filming, a bishop from the Order of Exorcists was called to bless the studio, cast, and crew. This...
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2024

Beacon
6.9/24
After an ambitious solo trip leaves her shipwrecked on a remote island, a young sailor is rescued by its lone inhabitant: a lighthouse keeper. As the...
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1986

Astucia
5/4
Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...
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2016

7:19
6.5/53
At 7:19 a.m., on September 19th of 1985, the most destructive earthquake hit Mexico City. Inside what's left of a building, a group of survivors fight...
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2017

Alien: Covenant
6.2/8765
The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but...
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1985

Viaje al paraíso
4/5
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.
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2018

The Nun
5.9/6731
A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romani...
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2021

Chaos Walking
6.6/2318
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting...
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1998

Luces de la noche
5/2
On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.
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1983

Choices of the Heart
5.5/4
Jeannie Donovan, a party-girl searching for that something missing in her life, finds it in El Salvador, hooking up with three nuns and a heartful of...
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2019

The Grudge
5.4/1219
After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is...
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2017

Walden: Life in The Woods
0/0
A radical, western re-imagining of Henry David Thoreau's classic, interlacing three stories about the trappings of 21st century life and those who dre...
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2018

Corazón
7.1/11
Elena Ramirez is a disadvantaged prostitute who learns that she has a life threatening medical condition, and must make attempts to earn a visa in or...
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Corazón

2015

43
5/3
43 young male students were abducted from a Mexican college on September 26, 2014. They have yet to resurface. This documentary probes the disturbing...
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43

2021

Godzilla vs. Kong
7.584/10089
In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerf...
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Godzilla vs. Kong

2021

Land
6.7/290
Edee, in the aftermath of an unfathomable event, finds herself unable to stay connected to the world she once knew and in the face of that uncertainty...
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2020

The Midnight Sky
5.7/1860
A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
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The Midnight Sky

2002

Heartbreak Hospital
6.3/3
Neely, an aspiring actress, gets a role on the popular soap opera "Heartbreak Hospital." Her neighbor, Lottie, a huge fan of the show, can't different...
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Heartbreak Hospital

1996

Salón México
6.1/7
In this remake of the 40's classic, two lovers murder each other, leading to an investigation and the closing of the Saln Mxico, a famous place where...
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Salón México

2020

Danyka
6.4/39
A middle-aged man calls into question his life choices and his own morals after a flirtation with a teenage girl at the beach.
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Danyka

2012

El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza
6.7/48
Santos, a fighter finished pacheco overweight and suffers from his recent divorce with Busty Mendoza, a voluptuous and wild woman fighter. To get out...
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El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza

2000

La toma de la embajada
6/5
Bogotá, 1980. During the government of President Turbay. An urban cell of the M-19 invades the Embassy of the Dominican Republic, taking 14 ambassador...
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2025

Black Phone 2
0/0
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