Guadalajara (México), 1978

By Fernanda Gdynia Morotti

Actor, producer, and film director. By 2015, he had acted in more than forty films.

Son of actors José Ángel García and Patricia Bernal, he began his artistic career as a child in 1989, in the telenovela El abuelo y yo, from the Televisa network. He studied performing arts in London, at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He stood out in cinema with the feature films Amores brutos (2000), by Alejandro González Iñárritu; Sin noticias de Dios (2001), by A. Díaz Yanes; Y tu mamá también (2001), by Alfonso Cuarón; Vidas privadas (2001), by Fito Páez; El crimen del padre Amaro (2002), by Carlos Carrera; La mala educación (2004), by Pedro Almodóvar; and Diarios de motocicleta (2004), by Walter Salles Jr. He received the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the Venice Film Festival in 2001 for his performance in Y tu mamá también, and the Ariel Award for Best Actor for Amores brutos.

He has two children with his former partner Dolores Fonzi: the firstborn, Lázaro, born in 2009, and Libertad, born in 2011. He is an ambassador for the humanitarian organization Oxfam.