Demián Bichir Nájera is a Mexican actor. After starring in telenovelas, he began to appear in Hollywood films. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in A Better Life.

Filmography

• 2026Diamond — Alberto Echevarria
• 2025Black Phone 2 — Armando
• El dentista — Nolasco Black, Executive Producer
• 2025Without Blood — Tito
• 2024A Circus Tale & A Love Song — Refugio, Director, Screenplay
• 2024Beacon — Ismael, Executive Producer
• 2024Desert Angel — Executive Producer
• 2023Chupa — Chava
• Let the Right One In — Mark Kane, Producer
• 2021Chaos Walking — Ben Moore
• 2021Godzilla vs. Kong — Walter Simmons
• 2021Land — Miguel
• 2020Danyka — Armando, Producer
• 2020The Midnight Sky — Sanchez
• Grand Hotel — Santiago Mendoza
• 2019The Grudge — Goodman
• The Hateful Eight — Señor Bob
• 2018Corazón — Dr. Mario Garcia
• 2018The Nun — Father Burke
• 2017Alien: Covenant — Lope
• 2017Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos — Lope
• 2017Alien: Covenant – Crew Messages — Lopé
• 2017Lowriders — Miguel Alvarez
• 2017Walden: Life in The Woods — Ramirez
• 20167:19 — Fernando Pellicer
• 2016Good Kids — Yaco
• 2015The Hateful Eight — Bob
• 2014Death in Buenos Aires — Chávez
• 2014Words with Gods — Son (ep. "God's Blood - La sangre de Dios")
• 2013Before We Are Forgotten
• 2013Dom Hemingway — Mr. Fontaine
• 2013Machete Kills — Mendez
• The Bridge — Marco Ruiz
• 2013The Heat — Hale
• 2012El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza — Cerdo Gutiérrez 3 (voice)
• 2012Savages — Alex
• 2011A Better Life — Carlos Riquelme
• 2011Foreverland — Salvador
• 2011The Dream of Ivan — Entrenador Torres
• 2010Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada — Hidalgo, Co-Producer
• 2010The Runway — Ernesto Cordoba
• 2009Enemigos íntimos
• 2008Che: Part One — Fidel Castro
• 2008Che: Part Two — Fidel Castro
• 2007Beyond the Sky — Malboro
• 2005American Visa — Professor Mario Alvarez
• Weeds — Esteban Carlos Reyes
• 2004Hipnos — Miguel
• Zapata. Amor en Rebeldía
• 2002Dark Cities — Mario
• 2002Heartbreak Hospital — Tonio
• 2001Don't Tempt Me — Manny
• 2001In the Time of the Butterflies — Manolo Tavárez
• 2000Gimme Power — Gabriel Castro
• 2000La toma de la embajada — "Comandante Uno"
• 1999Ave María — Daniel Simón
• 1999Little Saints — Cacomixtle
• 1999Sex, Shame & Tears — Tomás
• 1998Luces de la noche — Eduardo (Young)
• 1997Dance with the Devil — Catalina
• Nothing Personal — Comandante Alfonso Carbajal
• 1996Recipes to Stay Together — Carlos Rodríguez
• 1996Salón México — Insp. Casteleón
• 1996Solo — Rio
• 1995Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead — Omar
• Ties of Love — Valente Segura
• 1994Hasta Morir
• 1994Test of Love — Arturo
• 1994Ya la hicimos
• 1993Married Life — Gaspar
• 1993Miroslava — Ricardo
• 1992Marea Suave
• 1990Red Dawn — Jorge
• 1988The Penitent — Roberto
• El rincón de los prodigios — Monchito
• 1987Hotel Colonial — Young Hotel Clerk
• 1986Astucia — Tapatío
• 1985Viaje al paraíso — Chuy
• 1983Choices of the Heart — Armando
• Vivir enamorada — Nacho
• Delphi — Hector Torres
• Hold the Devil — Henry Campos
• Margot & Rudi

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2020Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe — Self
• 201543 — Himself (as Demian Bichir)
• 2014Nordic Noir - The Rise of Scandi Drama — Self
• 2013Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2007Mosquita muerta — Himself
• Las Lunas del Auditorio — Self