Biography
Gerardo Taracena (born 1970) is a Mexican film and theatre actor and dancer. He is known for his roles in Apocalypto, Man on Fire, The Mexican and Sin Nombre as well as the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico. He was born in Mexico City.
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Complete Filmography

Quite Like Paradise
2024
as Justino Nava
Ugo Conti, charismatic Italian aristocrat and influencer, arrives in Mexico where he seduces the Mexican high society. When he meets Frida Becker agai...

From Inside
2023
as Juan Infante
Carmen Altamirano was buried alive at 2 years old by her parents. 30 years later, she will have to dig up her past.

Sobreviviendo mis XV
2023
as Melchor
Quinceañeras, a magical age... except when your family wants to put you in a bulky dress and make you waltz in front of everyone, which is exactly wha...

Héroes
2023
as Capitán Alvarado
During the Mexican-American War, a group of students from the Colegio Militar suffer the invasion, hunted by the enemy, and are persecuted in the plac...

Sound of Freedom
2023
as El Alacrán
The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers...

Chupa
2023
as Police Officer
While visiting family in Mexico, a lonely boy befriends a mythical creature hiding on his grandfather's ranch and embarks on the adventure of a lifeti...

Presencias
2022
as Don Jaime
A man who loses his wife and goes to seclude himself in a cabin in the woods, where strange things happen.

For Old Times' Sake
2022
as Luciano
Two old friends meet after years of not seeing each other: Miguel, a prisoner who is about to be killed by a troop of the Mexican Revolution; and Luci...

Influence
2019
Leonora, a 16 year old teenager with a dangerous gift, when she draws a person, either by divination or by the action of the same drawing this person ...

The Marquez-Castillo Siblings
2019
as Líder Rebeldes
A group of four siblings compete for the heritage of their father.

El Día de la Unión
2018
as Rescatista 1

At the Frontera
2018
as Eduardo Manrique
When an ATF agent out of Houston is tasked to team up with the Mexico City District Attorney on a human trafficking case, he uncovers family ties with...

Las amantes del narco II
2018
as Don Chava
Saúl Montemayor is suffering loss in drug shipments because he has a snitch in his criminal organization, so he will put a plan in place so that this ...

Tratante de blancas
2018
as Reportero
The story of a woman who is kidnapped along with other women and sold for sexual exploitation. Government authorities are involved in this business, a...

Waiting For Gordo
2018
An out of luck journalist, a shady lawyer and a mysterious bachelor await for the arrival of "El Godo", an elusive acquaintance with contacts in the s...

La hora de Salvador Romero
2017
as Teodoro

Snail House
2017
as Hombre
Sofia leaves the city to a provincial town. There she meets Nico and the inhabitants of Casa Caracol, an alternative hostel in the middle of the jungl...

Zhai
2017
as Cesar
I am not what happened to me... I am what I choose to become.

El vecindario 3
2016
as Ajolote
The adventures of Juan and the situations that he will find in the neighborhood where he lives to try to rescue him from the bad guys who want to turn...

La Niña De La Mina
2016
as Carlos
Arter a tourist disappears inside a mine in Guanajuato, Mat Medina a young expert in mine engineering is hired to make a security diagnostic in the mi...

Don't Blame the Kid
2016
as Plutarco
After a one-night stand results in pregnancy, a young woman decides to become partners with the emotionally immature father-to-be.

The Load
2016
as Itzmin
Late sixteenth century. A Tameme Indian man and a noble Spanish woman flee through the forests of the New World in search of freedom. Their frantic jo...

Number Eighty
2016
Chano is deported back to Mexico after living most of his life as an ilegal immigrant in the USA. Now, away from his wife and kids, he lives alone and...

Boys on Film 14: Worlds Collide
2016
as Juan / Raúl's Father (segment "A World For Raúl")
Worlds collide in more ways than one in this stunning collection. Confidence is violated, classes clash and desire is concealed, yet love still triump...

Mexican Gangster
2014
as Raymundo
Tells the story of the most prominent bank robber in the history of Mexico, his crimes, his different personalities, his career as a charro with a mar...

Ramona
2014
as Carmelo
Ramona is 84, and she has announced that she is ready to die. While her family is making the preparations, however, she changes her mind.

Die Legende der Maske
2014
as Bo
Archaeologist Katja Bennecke is in charge of an excavation site at the foot of a Mayan pyramid on the Mexican headland of Yucatán. By chance, she disc...

A Shred Of Mist
2014
as Perito
After the dead of his mother, Daniel is put under the care of his aunt Elizabeth, a foreign woman with a severe character, who subjects the child to m...

Familia Gang
2014
A senior official of the Mexican political system decides to fake the capture and death of The Coyote, public enemy number one in Mexico, to make this...

Princesas de cartón
2014
as Felipe
Regina, a young female singer has a big secret that will turn her life upside down.

Los hijos de Don Gregorio
2013
as Roberto

Flying low
2013
as Chuyin Venegas
Chuyín Venegas and Cornelio Barraza were the biggest stars of popular music and cinema of the 80's. "The Goldfinches of Rosarito" had no equal as musi...

Para armar un helicóptero
2013
Oliverio lives in a building taken over by immigrants from the Mexican countryside who work constantly to provide the basic services lacking in the dw...

Deseo
2013
as Marino
Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the...

Richness of Internal Space
2013
as Tenso
Locked up and isolated, constantly exposed and threatened to be killed, for the first time in his life Lazaro understood that he was a free man.

Potosí
2013
as Javier
Potosi, a rural town in Latin America, is the crossfire of the ravaging that has devastated the north of the country. An accident along a deserted roa...

Tlatelolco, Summer of 68'
2013
as Militar 1 Tortura
As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are ...

Los Kokainos
2012
as Lic. Quintero
Tania wants to be a journalist and write about how bad people live under the current government. This is how she gets to know the hell of drugs and ga...

The Walls Talk
2012
as El Ojaiz
A tragic and epic love that transcends time and generations unites Maria and Javier forever. During important periods in Mexico (The War of Independen...

Come Out and Play
2012
A couple take a vacation to a remote island - their last holiday together before they become parents. Soon after their arrival, they notice that no ad...

A World for Raúl
2012
as Juan / Raúl's Father
When thirteen-year-old Raúl is asked to entertain the local landowner's son, a game of power and pride starts between the two boys.

4 Maras
2012
Mexican feature film

Get the Gringo
2012
as Romero
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.

Saving Private Pérez
2011
as Carmelo
La vida ha llevado a Julián Pérez por caminos equivocados, pero el destino le presentará a este hombre la oportunidad de encontrar su redención cuando...

Setback
2011
as Mario
A race against time between a man whose son requires urgent treatment and a stockbroker who suddenly lost his investors' money and ruined his own fami...

Ladies Mafia
2011
as Rualas
Tori, a beautiful young woman, accidentally ends up with a criminal's merchandise and is accused of the death of a member of a Colombian cartel: “El J...

El Infierno
2010
as Pancho Zopilote
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

Chilango Chronicles
2010
Confusion and eccentricity are all part of life in the vast human ocean of Mexico City -- including the three very different personalities portrayed i...

Sanguinarios del M1
2010
as Junco Pantoja
El último chichiluco
2009
as Mazatzin

Sin Nombre
2009
as Horacio
Sayra, a Honduran teen, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigra...

The Zone
2007
as Carlos
Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, ...

Apocalypto
2006
as Middle Eye
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a...

The Violin
2005
as Genaro
In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. ...

Man on Fire
2004
as Executive Adjutant
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventual...

De ida y vuelta
2001
After working for three years in the USA, Filiberto returns to his home town in Mexico. A proud man, he is searching for the recognition that will giv...

Without a Trace
2001
as Niko
A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.

The Mexican
2001
as Reveler to Fire Gun
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique ...

The Daughter of the Puma
1994
as Mateo Pérez Pérez
A novel by Monica Zak, based on a true story, inspired this 1994 Danish-Guatemalan coproduction, a political thriller about Guatemala.

Podcast, rapaces nocturnos
N/A
as Fulgencio

La Ramona
N/A
Lunik 3
N/A
In 1959, in the midst of the cold war, where the two most powerful nations try to show their supremacy through the space race, the arrival of a Soviet...