Biography
Cristian Mercado is a Bolivian theater and film actor. In the cinema, he is known for his main role as Falso Conejo in Sena / Quina, the immortality of the crab and as Miguel, fisherman in Undertow (Contracorriente) alongside Manolo Cardona, a film that won the Audience Award for World Cinema - Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010.
Known For
Complete Filmography
CIELO
2025
as Rodrigo
Santa, an eight-year-old girl from the desolate Bolivian Altiplano, embarks on a rollercoaster journey to take her mother from a life of misery into p...
La Lengua Desnuda
2024
as Nicolás
At the threshold of fantasy and magical realism, Barbara and Victoria explore two opposing worldviews. Navigating dreamlike landscapes, they seek to f...
The Old Soldiers
2022
as Guillermo
Based on an unpublished novel by Jorge Sanjinés
Pseudo
2020
A taxi driver from La Paz, out of work and desperate for money, assumes the identity of a passenger — a photographer — and takes his next assignment, ...
Santa Clara
2019
as Santiago Moreno
The Longest Night
2019
as Julián
A beautiful woman turns to prostitution. She must surrender her income to the leader of a human trafficking ring, but her daughter’s illness and a dru...
The Goalkeeper
2018
as Cacho
A former soccer player whose son is in the hospital waiting for an organ transplant and, in his desperation to get money to access a quick surgery, he...
Juana Azurduy, Guerrillera de la Patria Grande
2016
as Manuel Ascencio Padilla
Forgotten
2014
as Hugo
José, a Bolivian retired general, is lying on his deathbed after a heart attack. Tormented by memories of his involvement in Operation Condor and inva...
Blackthorn
2011
as General of the Bolivian Army
In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber an...
Atacama's 33
2011
as Quechua
A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue.
Undertow
2009
as Miguel
A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.
Che: Part Two
2008
as Inti (Guido Peredo Liegue)
After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a sma...
Los Andes no creen en Dios
2007
as Paco
End of the 20's. Alfonso a young writer brought up in France, arrives to an adventurous mining town (Uyuni) in the midst of the Bolivian high plateau....
El atraco
2004