Gerardo Taracena Biography
Gerardo Taracena is a Mexican film and theatre actor and dancer known for his roles in Apocalypto, Man on Fire, American Family, The Mexican, and Sin Nombre. He was born in Mexico City.
Gerardo Taracena Age
Taracena was born in 1970, in Mexico City, Mexico. He is 53 years old as of 2023.
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Gerardo Taracena Education
Taracena studied Dramatic Art in the University Center of Theater of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 1992 he acted in diverse festivals of theater and dance with the group of dance Integro of Peru, until 1996.
Gerardo Taracena Career
Taracena is known to have taken part in a diverse selection of festivals across the whole of Latin America, and has performed in more than 30 works of theatrical acts. He was also enrolled in the theatrical group, Theater Myth. His production on film and TV has grown both in Mexico and the United States. He also appeared in the Mexican film Saving Private Perez, released in 2011, with fellow Mexican actor Jaime Cam
Apocalypto
Apocalypto is a 2006 American epic adventure film co-produced, co-written and directed by Mel Gibson. The film features a cast of Native American and Indigenous Mexican actors consisting of Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mayra Sérbulo, Dalia Hernández, Ian Uriel, Gerardo Taracena, Rodolfo Palacios, Bernardo Ruiz Juarez, Ammel Rodrigo Mendoza, Ricardo Diaz Mendoza and Israel Contreras.
Similar to Gibson’s earlier film The Passion of the Christ, all dialogue is in a modern approximation of the ancient language of the setting. Here, the Indigenous Yucatec Maya language is spoken, with subtitles, which sometimes refer to the language as Mayan. This was the last film Gibson directed until 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge ten years later.
Set in the Yucatan, Mexico around the year 1502, Apocalypto portrays the hero’s journey of a young man named Jaguar Paw, an early Mesoamerican hunter and his fellow tribesmen who are captured by an invading force after the devastation of their village and brought on a perilous journey to a Mayan city for human sacrifice at a time when the Maya civilization is in decline.
The film was a box office success, grossing over $120 million worldwide, and received mostly positive reviews, with critics praising Gibson’s direction, Dean Semler’s cinematography, the performances of the cast, and the portrayal of Mayan civilization.
All of the ethnic tribes and peoples depicted in the film were Maya, as Gibson wanted to depict the Maya city built for the story as an “Unknown world” to the character. The film ends with the arrival of Christopher Columbus and the Spanish conquistadors on his fourth voyage.
Gerardo Taracena Movies
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Year
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Title
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Role
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2001
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The Mexican
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Reveler to Fire Gun
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2004
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Man on Fire
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Executive Adjutant
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2005
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The Violin
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Genaro
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2006
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Apocalypto
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Middle Eye
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2009
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Sin Nombre
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Horacio
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2009
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Deseo
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Marino
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2009
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La casa de las sanaciones
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2010
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Sanguinarios Del M1
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Junco
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2011
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Saving Private Perez
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Carmelo Benavides
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2012
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A World for Raúl
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Raúl’s father
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2016
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¿Qué Culpa Tiene El Niño?
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Plutarco
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2017
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Dionisio Juglar
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Dionisio
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TV Shows
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Year
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Title
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Role
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2007–2008
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El Pantera
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El Mandril
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2008
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Tiempo final
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Pampa
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2009
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Hermanos y detectives
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Unknown role
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2009
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Los simuladores
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Vicente
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2009
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Los simuladores
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Vicente
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2012
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Capadocia
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Cirilo
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2014
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El Mariachi
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Silvio
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2015
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Texas Rising
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Manuel Flores
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2015
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El Señor de los Cielos
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El Chamán
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2016–2017
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Perseguidos
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Gustavo “Tavo” Benítez
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2016–2017
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Queen of the South
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Cesar “Batman” Guemes
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2018
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Narcos: Mexico
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Pablo Acosta
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2018
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Diablero
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Benito Infante
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