Gael García Bernal is a Mexican actor and filmmaker. He is known for his performances in the films Amores perros (2000), Y tu mamá también (2001), Bad Education (2004), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), Babel (2006), Coco (2017), Old (2021), and Cassandro (2023). He has also played music conductor Rodrigo de Souza in the television drama series Mozart in the Jungle (2014–2018) and starred in the Disney+ special Werewolf by Night (2022). García Bernal was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of a young Che Guevara in 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. He and fellow actor Diego Luna founded the production company Canana Films in Mexico City. 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.

Filmography

• 2026Hombre Al Agua — Camilo, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2026Nothing Between Us — Guillermo
• Santita — Alejandro
• 2026The End of It — Diego
• 2026Zero A.D.: The Birth of Christ — Joachim
• 2025ASCO: Without Permission — Executive Producer
• 2025Holland — Dave Delgado
• 2025Magellan — Fernão de Magalhães
• 2025Sueño Perro
• 2025Thesis on a Domestication — Producer
• 2024Another End — Sal
• 2024Gombrowicz or The Immaturity
• LEGO Pixar: BrickToons — Héctor (voice)
• La Máquina — Esteban 'La Máquina' Osuna, Original Story, Executive Producer
• 2024State of Silence — Executive Producer
• 2023Cassandro — Saúl "Cassandro", Executive Producer
• 2023The Mother — Hector
• 2023This One Summer — Thiago
• 2022Werewolf by Night — Jack Russell
• El Tema — Host, Creator, Producer
• Maya and the Three — The Jaguar Brothers (voice)
• 2021Old — Guy
• Station Eleven — Arthur Leander
• Pan y Circo — Self, Producer, Creator
• 2020Wasp Network — Viramontez
• 2019Birders — Executive Producer
• 2019Chicuarotes — Director, Producer
• 2019Ema — Gastón
• 2019It Must Be Heaven — Gael García Bernal
• 2019Lorena: Light-Footed Woman — Executive Producer
• 2018A 3 Minute Hug — Executive Producer
• Here on Earth — El Pájaro, Director, Creator
• 2018Museo — Juan Núñez
• 2018The Accused — Mario Elmo
• 2018The Kindergarten Teacher — Simon
• 2017Coco — Héctor (voice)
• 2017If You Saw His Heart — Daniel
• 2017Zama — Executive Producer
• 2016Madly — Director, Screenplay, Story
• 2016Neruda — Oscar Peluchoneau
• 2016Salt and Fire — Dr. Fabio Cavani, Executive Producer
• 2016You're Killing Me Susana — Eligio
• 2016Zoom — Edward
• 2015Desierto — Moises, Executive Producer
• 2015Eva Doesn't Sleep — Massera
• 2015Leagues — Creative Director, Producer
• 2015The Chosen Ones — Executive Producer
• 2015The Empty Classroom — Producer
• 2015The Visible Hand — Director
• Mozart in the Jungle — Rodrigo De Souza
• 2014Rosewater — Maziar Bahari
• 2014The Ardor — Kaí
• 2013Paraíso — Executive Producer
• 2013Who Is Dayani Cristal? — Himself, Producer
• 2012Casa de Mi Padre — Onza
• 2012No — René Saaverdra
• 2012The Loneliest Planet — Alex
• 2012Vamps — Diego Bardem (uncredited)
• 2011A Little Bit of Heaven — Julian Goldstein
• 2011Even the Rain — Sebastián
• 2011Miss Bala — Executive Producer
• 2010Abel — Executive Producer
• 2010Hidalgo, Frenesí de Libertad — Narrator
• 2010Letters to Juliet — Victor
• 2010Los Invisibles — Self, Director
• 2010Revolución — Director
• 2009Mammoth — Leo Vidales
• 2009Sin Nombre — Executive Producer
• 2009The Limits of Control — Mexican
• 20088 — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2008Blindness — Bartender / King of Ward Three
• 2008Chevolution
• 2008I'm Gonna Explode — Executive Producer
• 2008Rudo & Cursi — Tato
• 2008The letter — Director
• 2008Walking Vengeance — Executive Producer
• 2007Cochochi — Executive Producer
• 2007Déficit — Cristobal, Director
• 2007Saint Death — Narrator
• 2007The Past — Rímini
• 2006Babel — Santiago
• 2006Drama/Mex — Executive Producer
• 2006The King — Elvis Valderez
• 2006The Science of Sleep — Stéphane
• 2004Bad Education — Ángel / Juan / Zahara
• 2004The Motorcycle Diaries — Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna
• 2004Traveling with Che Guevara — Che
• 2003Dot the I — Kit Winter
• 2003Dreaming of Julia — Ricky
• 2002Fidel — Che Guevara
• Fidel — Che Guevara
• 2002I'm with Lucy — Date 2 - Gabriel
• 2002The Crime of Padre Amaro — Padre Amaro
• 2001Don't Tempt Me — Jack Davenport
• 2001Private Lives — Gustavo 'Gana' Bertolini
• 2001The Eye on the Nape — Pablo
• 2001The Last Post — Jose Francisco
• 2001Y Tu Mamá También — Julio Zapata
• 2000Amores Perros — Octavio
• 1996De Tripas, Corazón
• Vovô e Eu — Daniel García Medina
• In the Valley of Shadows — Álvar Toledano
• Monkey Hill
• The Boys: Mexico
• Z — Zorro

Appearances as themselves (16)

• 2022Director by Night — Self
• 2020Perros, amores, accidentes — Self (archive footage)
• 1994 — Self
• Chelsea — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2011Breaking the Taboo — Self
• 2010José & Pilar — Self
• Late Night with Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2007Common Ground: Under Construction Notes — Self
• 2004Impressions from the Shoot: Making Bad Education — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• 2001Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También' — Self
• The View — Self
• The Daily Show — Self, Self - Guest
• The Oscars — Self