Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1957

By Fernanda Gdynia Morotti

Actor, he became one of the Argentine artists with the greatest international projection.

Son of Ricardo Darín and Renné Roxana, renowned actors in Argentina, he debuted in theater at the age of ten alongside his parents. At sixteen, he rose to success as a comedian in the television series Mi cuñado. In the 1980s, he joined a group of young people called the “Galancitos,” who brought their television work to the theater, gaining thousands of fans.

By early 2015, he had starred in fourteen feature films, both dramas and comedies, with highlights including Nine Queens (2000), The Son of the Bride (2001), Moonlight Club (2004), Aura (2005), The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and earned Darín a Goya Award nomination, Chinese Takeaway (2011), White Elephant (2012), Thesis on a Homicide (2013), and Wild Tales (2014).

Invited to play a Mexican drug dealer in a Hollywood film directed by Tony Scott, he declined the offer and justified his decision in a 2013 interview: “They offered me to play a Mexican drug dealer. And why do they want me to play a Mexican drug dealer? It seems like all drug dealers are Latin American… in the country with the highest consumption on the face of the Earth? No, no! I’m not interested.”