Actor, director and social activist. He is one of the greatest references in the film, television and theater industry, winner six times of the statuette awarded by the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
He began his career working with renowned directors, both inside and outside Mexico. One of her first projects was the suspense and horror series La Hora Marcadain which he coincided with directors whose careers were also on the rise.
The film Sólo con tu pareja' (Only with your partner) (Dir. Alfonso Cuarón) is one of the titles that is beginning to become known on a larger scale within the film panorama, followed by 'Cronos' (Cronos). Cronos' (Dir. Guillermo del Toro) (Dir. Guillermo del Toro), a film that would earn him his first Ariel Award (1993).
From there came projects such as 'El Callejón de los Milagros' (The Alley of Miracles) (dir. Jorge Fons); 'Deep Crimson' (Dir. Arturo Ripstein) (Dir. Arturo Ripstein), with which he won his second Ariel Award (1997); 'Aro Tolbukhin: In the Mind of the Assassin' (Dir. Isaac Pierre Racine). (Dir. Isaac Pierre Racine), one of the candidates to represent Mexico in contention for the Oscars (2003); and La Mala Educación' (Bad Education)directed by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar.
His vast filmography includes other memorable titles such as Arráncame la vida' (Arráncame la vida) (Dir. Roberto Sneider), work with which he won the Canacine Award as Mexican Actor of the Year (2008); El Infierno' (The Inferno) (Dir. Luis Estrada); 'Colosio: El Asesinato' (Colosio: The Assassination) (Dir. Carlos Bolado), taking with this participation the Silver Biznaga for Best Actor at the Malaga Festival (2013); 'Nicotina' (Dir. Hugo Rodríguez), with which he won his fourth Ariel Award (2004); 'Chicuarotes' (Dir. Gael García Bernal); El Diablo Entre las Piernas' (The Devil Between the Legs) (Dir. Arturo Ripstein); 'Blancanieves' (Snow White) (Dir Pablo Berger); 'Zama' (Dir. Lucrecia Martel); 'Zama' (Dir. (Dir. Lucrecia Martel); 'Bardo, false chronicle of a few truths' (Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu). (Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu), leading actor awarded with the Ariel Award for Best Actor (2023), 'Familia' (Family) (Dir. Rodrigo García), work that would earn him a nomination for Best Actor at the Ariel Awards (2024) and 'Fiesta en la madriguera' (Manolo Caro) (Dir. Manolo Caro), both titles released through Netflix. That same year he would arrive with a new leading role in. 'El Jockey' (The Jockey) (Dir. Luis Ortega), a film that had its world premiere at La Biennale di Venezia.
Giménez Cacho's talent transcends the big screen and she has achieved equally outstanding performances in both theater and television. He has staged numerous productions at the Teatro El Milagro in Mexico City, while in television he has been behind projects such as Crónica de Castas' (Chronicle of Castes)(Canal Once); 'Club de Cuervos' (Channel Eleven); 'Club de Cuervos', the first original series in Spanish in Mexico City.Netflix's first original Spanish-language series; and other productions such as. '¿Quién mató a Sara?'(Netflix), 'Aquí en la Tierra' (Here on Earth)(FOX) and 'Un Extraño Enemigo' (Prime Video).(Prime Video).
With a career spanning more than thirty years, Giménez Cacho has received several awards in Mexico and abroad, including six Ariel Awards, two Canacine Awards, the ACPT Award, the ACE Award in New York and nominations for the Platinum and Goya Awards.
