Biography
Daniel Hendler (born 3 January 1976) is a Uruguayan film, television, and theatre actor who works mainly in the cinema of Argentina, where he lives. He is known for his starring roles in films such as Bottom of the Sea, Family Law, The Paranoids, Phase 7 and Lost Embrace. Working on both sides of the Río de la Plata, Hendler achieved international recognition due to his awards as an actor. Hendler is part of the generation of actors who revitalized the Uruguayan cinema with films like 25 Watts, ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Un cabo suelto
2025
Writer, Director

The Summer Hit
2025
When Felipe’s ex-girlfriend breaks his heart, it feels like it’s the end of the world – and he’s not wrong. A strange zombie plague is unleashed on th...

The Silence of Marcos Tremmer
2024
as Dr. Alejandro Tremmer
Marcos Tremmer is a successful publicist who lives in Madrid, madly in love with his wife, Lucía. One day, Marcos discovers that a deadly disease will...

The Parties
2022
as Sergio
Sergio, Mali and Luz reluctantly agreed to spend Christmas in the country with their mother; in part because of the guilt they feel about saying no wh...

Lunáticos
2022
"Lunatics" narrates the experiences of different characters who live in the cities of Buenos Aires, Mexico and Montevideo. Their stories intersect. Th...

15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour
2022
as Jose
Drinking, dancing and... killing me. It's the new life my neighbour Jose has decided to live. What better way to escape boredom than coming to kill me...

The K.E.O.P/S System
2022
as Fernando
Belgrano neighborhood, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Someone is watching Fernando Berlasky from one of the countless windows in front of his apartment and ...

Virus: 32
2022
as Luis
A virus is unleashed and a chilling massacre runs through the streets of Montevideo.

The Intruder
2021
as Leopoldo
Inés works as a dubbing actress and sings in a choir in Buenos Aires. While on an idyllic trip she suffers a traumatic episode that she can’t recover ...

Straight to VHS
2021
as Self - Filmmaker
Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989; a mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by s...

The Future is an Angel and a Smile
2020
as Angel
Martín Garabal is the best employee of Garabal and sons, his father's real state agency. Leonardo envies him deeply, Tomás admires him and Eva loves h...

Erdosain
2020
as Fischbein
A film adaptation of the TV series "Los siete locos y los lanzallamas" by Roberto Arlt.

The Moneychanger
2019
as Humberto Brause
Humberto Brause takes advantage of Uruguay’s poor economy by specializing in offshore money laundering. Spanning the fifties to the seventies, the fil...

The Sleepwalkers
2019
as Sergio
A woman and her 14-year-old daughter, who is a sleepwalker, in the midst of awakening. A marriage on the edges of a silenced crisis. A ritualistic, ma...

Cuando brillan las estrellas
2018
as Narrador
As a child, Lucas falls in love with Ana. His story is truncated: she moves away and he loses track of her. Today Lucas does crossword puzzles and has...

Uma Noite Não é Nada
2018
as Abril
São Paulo, 1984. Agostinho, an old and tired Physics professor, is married to Januária, a retired school principal. In his classes, he begins to feel ...

La obra secreta
2018
as Elio Montes
Half a century after his death, Le Corbusier, the greatest exponent of modern architecture, arrives by train to the city of La Plata to visit the Curu...

Severina
2017
as Amigo 1/Hombre Cinta
A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore...

The Lost Brother
2017
as Cetarti
Cetarti is drowning in nothingness. With no job or purpose, he spends his days inside watching documentaries on television, until one day he is inform...

Al Borde
2016
as Martín
During a couple of days, different extreme situations lead the characters to discover that human relationships is what keep us on foot when we are abo...

The Candidate
2016
Director, Writer
A team of advisers is brought in to manufacture the image of Marchand, producing social media profiles, commercials and a new public persona. Conflict...

Easy Ball
2015
Sometimes the links can be built from the passions. Sometimes those links can become passions. For Hugo, a solitary taxi driver from Buenos Aires, the...

My Friend from the Park
2015
as Gustavo
While her filmmaker husband works in Chile, harried young mother Liz struggles to take care of her infant son. Feeling out of place amongst the tight-...

Tatuapé Mahal Tower
2014
as Javier Juárez García (voice)
The film is about the life story of Javier Juárez García, an Argentinian scale model figure who decided to live in São Paulo to seize the city’s real ...

To Fool a Thief
2013
as Sebastian
Sebastian meets Natalia when trying to steal an important piece of art from a museum, and she wins the hand. Rivals declared, the two have to work tog...

Por un tiempo
2013
Executive Producer
Leandro and Silvina, a young and successful middle-class couple, are experiencing the happiest time of their lives. But the sudden appearance of Leand...

Between Valleys
2012
as Carlos
This is the story of Vicente, a successful, married, economist with a nine-year-old son. It also tells the story of Antônio, the same man, living as a...

Norberto's Deadline
2012
Director, Screenplay, Producer
After being fired from his job, Norberto tries his luck as a real estate agent, but he doesn't tell his wife right away. His new boss advises him to t...

My First Wedding
2011
as Adrián Meier
On her wedding day, Adrian, nervous, make a small mistake that aims to hide Leonora, his girlfriend, to avoid problems. But far from avoiding them, co...

The Romantics
2010
Producer
Alliances are tested when seven college pals reunite to watch two of their own say “I do” at a seaside wedding. But the maid of honor and the groom sh...

Cabeça a Prêmio
2010
as Denis
The Menezes, a powerful family of animal breeders from the Mid-West, have always been at the helm of all illegal dealings in the region. In recent tim...

Cabeça a Prêmio
2010
Associate Producer
The Menezes, a powerful family of animal breeders from the Mid-West, have always been at the helm of all illegal dealings in the region. In recent tim...

Phase 7
2010
as Coco
A man protects his pregnant wife from their neighbors after the apartment is quarantined.

The Paranoids
2008
as Luciano Gauna
Luciano works in birthday parties and writes his first feature when friend Manuel returns from Spain to repeat his TV show, "The Paranoids", together ...

Extraordinary Stories
2008
as Narrator (voice)
X arrives in a small town and witnesses a violent act; Z takes the job of a dead manager and discovers that he had a notebook written in code and a ma...

La ronda
2008
as Pedro

A Stray Girlfriend
2007
as Miguel
A romantic holiday has left Inés all alone. She's not at all happy about it.

Cheese Head
2006
as Vercovich
It tells the story of four Jewish boys during a few summer days at the country club where their parents take them, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, i...

Los suicidas
2006
Daniel is a journalist who is commissioned to write an article based on a photograph of a presumed suicide. As he begins his investigation, he meets M...

The Dog Pound
2006
David, has just failed his university examinations and has one year to re-write them. Ruben, his father, a pragmatic and successful businessman, has b...

Family Law
2006
as Ariel Perelman
A man in his thirties does not want to be like his father, but that seems to be unavoidable.

Queens
2005
as Óscar
In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, are entwined: Judge Helena is in c...

Whisky
2004
as Martín - newly-married husband
When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, ...

Lost Embrace
2004
as Ariel Makaroff
In Buenos Aires, the twenty-something Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff ditches the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through t...
Despedida
2003

The Bottom of the Sea
2003
as Ezequiel Toledo
An architecture student is obsessed by his girlfriend. When she is invited to go alone to a party sponsored by her company, he becomes paranoid. He ar...

Musical Chairs
2003
Thanks
Victor, who lives abroad, must travel to his country of origin sent by the company where he works and will have only one day to visit his family who w...

Saturday
2002
as Martín
One more Saturday in a desolate Buenos Aires hard to recognize. Six young people that try to avoid their solitude by complicating their daily routes, ...

No sabe, no contesta
2002
as David
A handful of young people deal with their personal and emotional tribulations in this teen-centric romantic comedy from Argentina. Laura (Karina Dali)...

The Eye on the Nape
2001
as Diego
This is the story of Pablo, a young uruguayan exiled in México, whose father was disappeared during the military dictatorship.

25 Watts
2001
as Leche
24 hours in the life of three street youths in Montevideo. Three teenage guys try to figure out what they're supposed to be doing with their lives in ...

De vuelta a casa
2001

January 6th
2001
Director, Writer
Two friends wake up on January 6th, they have breakfast, they take a shower, they play boggle, and they get presents from the Three Wise Men. This fil...

Waiting for the Messiah
2000
as Ariel Goldstein
In 1999, Argentina's peso craters. Ariel, a young man from Buenos Aires' Jewish community, deals with his mother's fatal illness, finds a job as a nig...

December 31st
1996
Writer, Director
Roque and Cristian have no special plans for the day.

Víctor and the chosen ones
1996
as Pete
Two friends staying at a summer house find a strange animal in front of the house looking at them, and they discuss what to do with it.

Crazy Old Lady
N/A
as Pedro
Pedro receives a desperate message from an ex-girlfriend asking him to look after her senile mother, Alicia. What seems like a simple mission soon bec...
El espíritu de la ley
N/A
27 noches
N/A
Director