Biography
Ricardo Darín (born January 16, 1957) is an Argentine actor. Darín is one of the biggest movie stars in Argentina. He played a number of parts in TV series for several years where he became popular as a young leading actor. His most prominent roles as a film actor include Nine Queens (2000), El Hijo de la Novia (2001), Luna de Avellaneda (2004), El Aura (2005) and La Señal (2007), which was also his directorial debut. He starred in the Academy Award winning film The Secret in Their Eyes (2009).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Asesinatos sólo en El Hormiguero
2024

Rest in Peace
2024
Producer
A debt-ridden father takes advantage of an unforeseen situation to disappear and live off the grid under a false identity. But a chance event occurs a...

I Choose to Believe
2023
as Narrador
It narrates the epic title obtained by the Argentine National Team in the World Cup Qatar 2022 with testimonies of the protagonists, told from the int...

Argentina 1985
2022
as Julio Strassera
In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.

Argentina 1985
2022
Producer
In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.

Norma Aleandro, el vuelo de la mariposa
2022
as Self
Based on short stories and poems written by the actress, this documentary compiles fragments of the artist's life, configuring a story about the path ...

2001: El año del corralito
2021
as Narrador
Hormigueddon
2020
as Ricardo Darin
La peste del insomnio
2020
30 actresses and actors from Latin America, seek to evoke hope in the midst of the health and economic crisis unleashed by Covid-19, through the readi...

Heroic Losers
2019
as Fermín Perlassi
In a town in the Northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, a group of neighbors is organized to recover the economy of the area, but when the corrali...

Heroic Losers
2019
Producer
In a town in the Northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, a group of neighbors is organized to recover the economy of the area, but when the corrali...

Eduardo Galeano, Vagamundo
2018
as Self
A hug movie, for the biggest storyteller in Latin America.

An Unexpected Love
2018
as Marcos
It tells the story of Marcos and Ana, who have been married for more than 25 years, but enter into an existential crisis that leads them to separate. ...

An Unexpected Love
2018
Producer
It tells the story of Marcos and Ana, who have been married for more than 25 years, but enter into an existential crisis that leads them to separate. ...

Everybody Knows
2018
as Alejandro
Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is ...

The Summit
2017
as Hernán Blanco
At a summit for Latin American presidents in Chile where the region's geopolitical strategies and alliances are in discussion, Argentine president Her...

Black Snow
2017
as Salvador
Accused of killing his brother during adolescence, Salvador lives alone in the middle of Patagonia. Several decades later, his brother Marcos and his ...

10 Years with Bebe
2016
as self
This documentary follows the journey of beloved Spanish musician Bebe as she embarks on a tour to celebrate her first album's 10-year anniversary.

Kóblic
2016
as Tomás Kóblic
Colonia Helena, Argentina. The mysterious Tomás Kóblic, a former Navy pilot, works as a fumigator while dealing with his dark past and the intrigues o...

Truman
2015
as Julián
Tomás, who lives in Canada, travels to Madrid, Spain, to visit his old friend Julián. Both of them, accompanied by Truman, Julián's faithful dog, will...

Torrente 5
2014
Crooked cop Torrente gets out of jail in the year 2018 to find a different Spain from the one he knew.

Torrente 5
2014
as Comandante Cudilleros
Crooked cop Torrente gets out of jail in the year 2018 to find a different Spain from the one he knew.

Delirium
2014
as Himself
A group of friends is looking for a change in their lives. Believing that a film will bring them fame and wealth, they embark on the project without m...

Wild Tales
2014
as Simón Fisher (segment "Bombita")
Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy lo...

Violet
2014
as Relator
A guy tries to find outside what he is unable to find inside.

Serrat & Sabina: Two for the Road
2013
as Himself
Joan Manuel Serrat fled to Mexico when Franco ordered his persecution. In Argentina and Chile, his commitment against military regimes is still rememb...

Back to the Siam
2013

7th Floor
2013
as Sebastián
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sebastián, a successful lawyer, leaves his ex-wife's condo, located on the seventh floor of an apartment building, to take hi...

Thesis on a Homicide
2013
as Roberto Bermúdez
Roberto is a Law professor whose life is thrown into chaos when he becomes convinced that one of his best students has committed a brutal murder. Dete...

A Gun in Each Hand
2012
as G.
J. is depressed. E. lives peacefully. S. tries to get back with his wife. G. resorts to anxiolytics. P. plays seduction games. María and Sara exchange...

En fuera de juego
2012
as Coco (uncredited)
Diego, an Argentine doctor traumatized by the soccer since his childhood, is not satisfied with his life. Javi is a representative of kids who start p...

White Elephant
2012
as Julián
While working alongside his long-time friend and colleague in building a hospital for the residents of a Buenos Aries shantytown, a troubled priest fi...

Chinese Take-Away
2011
as Roberto
A comedy that chronicles a chance encounter between Robert and a Chinese named Jun who wanders lost through the city of Buenos Aires in search of his ...

Entre los Barras Bravas
2011
as Himself
Jon Sistiaga gives an inside and outside look into Argentina's Barra Bravas, the world's most violent football fans, who besides being radical fanatic...

Carancho
2010
as Sosa
Sosa is a lawyer who haunts hospital waiting rooms hoping to represent the victims of traffic accidents in insurance claims. When he falls in love wit...

The Dancer and the Thief
2009
as Nicolás Vergara Grey
Present day. Chile. Legendary bank robber Vergara Grey is getting out of prison after 5 long years and is looking forward to a quiet, uneventful life ...

The Secret in Their Eyes
2009
as Benjamín Espósito
Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved myst...

El destino del Lukong
2009
as Papá de Juan
Two jerks. Two mobs. A destiny. The story will focus on a building manager (José) and a neighbor (Juan), who accidentally discover the body of their n...

Democracy
2008
as Narrador
1983: After more than seven years of terror, the Argentineans recover the democracy. The reconstruction of a climate of time and an event that marked ...

Lovely Loneliness
2008
as Father Soledad
A romantic comedy about a neurotic girl who makes a vow of solitude after getting dumped.

The Signal
2007
as Corvalán
During the last days of Eva Peron, a pair of low-ranking detectives are thrust into a case of corruption involving the Mafia.

The Signal
2007
Director
During the last days of Eva Peron, a pair of low-ranking detectives are thrust into a case of corruption involving the Mafia.

XXY
2007
as Kraken
Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's s...

The Education of Fairies
2006
as Nicolas
A man's life is turned upside down after he is abandoned by the woman he loves.

The Aura
2005
as Esteban Espinosa
A quiet, epileptic taxidermist plans the perfect crime. All he needs is the right opportunity. An accident, perhaps…

Moon of Avellaneda
2004
as Román Maldonado
The story of a social and sports club in a Buenos Aires neighborhood and of those who try to save it from being closed.

Kamchatka
2002
as Dad
In 1976, Argentina fell into the hands of a de facto government. Thousands of citizens are persecuted and kidnapped. This is the case of the parents o...

Sammy and Me
2002
as Samy
Things begin to fall apart for Samy (Ricardo Darín), a longtime television writer on the brink of turning 40, when his midlife crisis starts interferi...

Son of the Bride
2001
as Rafael Belvedere
At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother, his ex-w...

The Escape
2001
as Domingo Santaló, 'El Pibe'
In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these r...

Nine Queens
2000
as Marcos
Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps, the "nine queens".

Same Love, Same Rain
1999
as Jorge
Jorge is a writer for a left-leaning Buenos Aires magazine that's at odds with the country's military dictatorship. He meets lovely and intelligent ac...

The Lighthouse
1998
as Andy
Two Argentine sisters, Memé and Aneta, lose their mother in a car crash. Memé, the elder, is also left lame with one badly scarred leg. The orphaned g...

Perdido por perdido
1993
as Ernesto Vidal
Vidal (Darín) is about to be bankrupt, so he sets up a fake car robbery with a small-time mobster to collect insurance and split the money. But his pe...

The Stranger
1987
as Clark Whistler
Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then flees. During her escape, she has a car accident. Sh...

Revancha de un amigo
1987
Ariel Llanarte, writer and journalist forced to live abroad, decides to return to the country. He has the purpose of finding out the reason why his be...

Me sobra un marido
1987
as Cameo
An entomologist returns to Buenos Aires, after a long expedition in Africa. Upon arrival he finds that his wife, who had not heard from him in a long ...

Te amo
1986
as Germán
A single pregnant teenager goes to live with her uncle, a mediocre entertainer in a seedy cabaret.

Les longs manteaux
1986
as Le lieutenant Lamas
A reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia.

The Rosales
1984
as Jorge Victorica
Film based on the real case of the sinking of the cazatorpedera "La Rosales", Navy Argentina, occurred in 1892 on the coast of Uruguay. In that event ...

Deadly Revenge
1983
as Silvio
When the new don discovers that sadistic mobsters were responsible for the death of his young son, he wreaks a deadly revenge.

Open Day and Night
1981
as Hugo
A motel that is open all day specializes in beautiful women, and a couple of men decide to visit their rooms.

La discoteca del amor
1980
as Eddie Ulmer
Music execs find out their songs are being pirated, so a detective and his assistant are hired to catch the culprits.

The Song of Buenos Aires
1980
as Juan González "El poeta"
By notice, the heir to a fortune named Juan González is summoned. Three men with that name appear but only one is the one who has the right to inherit...

The Beach of Love
1980
as Ricardo
A young man is forcibly taken to a beach by his brother and a friend to make him forget his girlfriend.

Juventud sin barreras
1979
A portrait of frivolous youth. Unfortunate events force a group of club-hopping young men and women to face reality and reevaluate their lifestyle.

The Tent of Love
1979
as Tino
A group of young people who want to go camping acquires a circus tent by mistake.

La fiesta de todos
1979
Documentary about Argentina's victory in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, held in that country during its last dictatorship.

La rabona
1979
A man and his daughter, tired of fights and routines, miss school and work the same day.

Los éxitos del amor
1979
Leonor Capulletti and Quique Monteschi, fanatics of the same club, love each other in a passionate as well as conflictive courtship, because their res...

Así es la vida
1977
as Rogelio González
Tells the story, in the key of comedy of customs, of a typical bourgeois home in Buenos Aires for three decades.

He nacido en la ribera
1972
A born soccer player leaves his town and his family to become a professional footballer. He has stardom, money, and a beautiful model, but realizes he...
We'll Leave It Here
N/A
Follows a psychoanalyst who loses faith in traditional methods. He starts crossing some ethical lines with his patients and it is working out fine, un...