Gael García Bernal

Gael García Bernal was born November 30, 1978 and began his career as a child actor in Mexico, the young Gael García Bernal got international recognition from his role in Amores perros (2000) which was his first major feature film and was then followed by Y tu mamá también (2001) for which he won the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the Venice film festival. García Bernal also portrayed Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara twice, first in the 2002 TV miniseries Fidel and then, better known, in 2004's The Motorcycle Diaries, an adaptation of a journal a 23-year-old Guevara wrote about his travels across South America. García Bernal has worked for acclaimed directors including Pedro Almodóvar, Walter Salles, Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Michel Gondry, among others. He recently took on roles in English language films, including the Gondry-directed The Science of Sleep, the Alejandro González Iñárritu-directed Babel, and The King, for which he earned rave reviews. He has been nominated for a BAFTA in 2005 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for The Motorcycle Diaries and, in 2006, was nominated for the Orange Rising Star award which acknowledges new talents in the acting industry. García Bernal also directed his first feature film, Déficit, which was released in 2007