Biography
Joaquin Cosío was born in Nayarit, Mexico. His training as an actor began in 1983 and has continued growing and developing ever since. In 1994, Cosío wrote his first stage play, titled Tomochic: Or the day the world ended, which was awarded the National Literature Prize. Performing in over 50 plays and over 600 live performances, his stage career reached a new milestone in 1999 when he was hand selected to join the National Theater Company. This led Cosío to make the decision to move to Mexico ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Pérdida total
2025
as Bonilla
Claudio is a skilled con artist desperate for money. In a misguided attempt to claim insurance on his truck, he tries to destroy it, only to discover ...

Switched Up
2024
as Chuy
It follows an unconventional family who find themselves embroiled in a personality swap after little Zoe has a mystical encounter with an ancient god....

El precio de educarlos
2024
as Contador
When the Rebolledo accountants' children finally leave their home, their lonely parents, feeling abandoned, come up with the crazy plan to win the lot...

V de Víctor
2024
as Jorge
A retired boxer will return to the ring to face his greatest rival, relying on his daughter, his friends and a famous trainer who will teach him to se...

Cassandro
2023
as Lorenzo
The true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso that rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, t...

The Great Seduction
2023
as Doctor Peña
When a golden opportunity arises to boost the fortunes of a forgotten fishing town, its residents set out to trick their way to making it happen.

Elevator
2023
Two "macho" friends gather on an old hotel and get ready for a night of hard drinking, drugs and sex. After some drinks in the room, one of the frien...

Bendita Suegra
2023
as Lucio
Andrea, a successful veterinarian who loves her job and is in a relationship with Lucio, an up-and-coming lawyer who grew up in the country. Lucio has...

¡Que viva México!
2023
as Rosendito / Reginito / Abuelo
After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.

Lecciones para canallas
2022
Fate leads young Jenny to search for her estranged father: small-time swindler Dirty Barry. Jenny believes love conquers all, but Barry knows money is...

Mighty Victoria
2021
as Jacinto
Feature film located at the beginning of the 20th-century which tells the story of the town "La Esperanza", whose dying mining boom receives a fatal b...

Killing Cabos 2: The Mask of El Máscara
2021
as Mascarita
Faced with the unexpected death of his estranged father -El Máscara- and the subsequent theft of his precious mask, Rubén -Mascarita- will find himsel...

Monstruosamente Solo
2021
as Moncho (voice)
Santiago is contained in the micro-universe of his home due to a deep depression after his girlfriend left him for no apparent reason. That is when he...

The Suicide Squad
2021
as Mayor General Mateo Suarez
Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X...

Powder
2019
as Don Manuel
After a ten year absence, El Chato returns to San Ignacio, his hometown, in order to retrieve a shipment of cocaine that was dropped there by a cartel...

Rambo: Last Blood
2019
as Don Manuel
After fighting his demons for decades, John Rambo now lives in peace on his family ranch in Arizona, but his rest is interrupted when Gabriela, the gr...

Sonora: The Devil’s Highway
2019
as Emeterio
1931, a year of nationalisms and excesses: The Chinese are expelled from Sonora; the US deports Mexicans and closes its borders. Twelve desperate peop...

Don't Jump, Magdalena
2019
A woman decides to jump down from a rooftop. This is her third suicidal attempt, however, she has not been able to end her life.

Belzebuth
2019
as Emmanuel Ritter
While leading a police investigation of a massacre in a public school at the border of Mexico and U.S.A, special Agent Emanuel Ritter links this stran...

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018
as Scorpion (voice)
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive sp...

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...

Me gusta, pero me asusta
2017
as Don Gumaro
Brayan Rodriguez is an innocent heir to a criminal Sinaloa family sent to Mexico City to expand the business, and where he meets Claudia, and their wo...
Cinderello
2017
as Damián
Marlon, an insecure and not-so-attractive photographer, is hit with a spell that every night transforms him into Brando, a handsome womanizer. Things ...

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

Sundown
2016
as Pedro Alazanas
High school seniors Logan and Blake prepare for an epic Spring Break as they travel to the beautiful and exotic Mexican beach resort of Puerto Vallart...

Compadres
2016
as Gaspar
A disgruntled Mexican cop is forced to work with a teenage hacker to hunt down the criminals who killed his wife, and dismantle their operation.

Las Aparicio
2016
as Camilo Gutiérrez
Three generations of women who share a strange family tradition: all widowed in extraordinary circumstances; all give birth only to girls. This is the...

Thoroughbred
2016
as Carmona
5 professionals rob a Horce Racetrack and a Casino Complex but when one of them makes too many mistakes, the police starts a deadliest manhunt to reco...

Vidas violentas
2015

Hot Pursuit
2015
as Vicente Cortez
Straight-arrow policewoman Cooper is excited and thrilled about her next assignment. Her task is to escort Daniella Riva, a wisecracking Colombian bea...

The Thin Yellow Line
2015
as Gabriel
Five men are hired to paint the yellow line the road between two villages in Mexico forgotten. Aboard an old pickup truck, initiated the work of more ...

The Perfect Dictatorship
2014
as Agustín Morales
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit ...

Cantinflas
2014
as "El Indio" Fernández
Mike Todd is a Broadway producer struggling to produce the film. Around the World in 80 Days. In Mexico, Mario Moreno, a young entertainer is struggli...

Sombras
2014
Dani, Freddy and Oscar are three teenagers who have no real ambition in life because they live in a neighborhood where smoking pot and making a quick ...

A Shred Of Mist
2014
as Vega
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...

Heriberto y Demetrio
2014
Two cops from Mexico who actually can resolve crimes.

El mar muerto
2013
There is a blackout in Mexico City. In the darkness some people are abandoned by God (their conscience) and commit a transgression (murder and infidel...

A Night in Old Mexico
2013
as Cholo
Forced to give up his land and home, Texas rancher Red Bovie isn't about to retire quietly in a dismal trailer park. Instead he hops in his Cadillac a...

Amorous Pancho Villa
2013
as Abraham Gonzalez
The assassination of Pancho Villa, on the outskirts of Parral, Chihuahua, plunged the city into mourning, and a wake for the revolutionary hero was he...

The Lone Ranger
2013
as Jesus
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is ...

Bless Me, Ultima
2013
as Narciso
In a village in New Mexico, the life of young farm boy Antonio is dramatically changed when an old medicine woman joins his household. This affecting ...

Between Night and Day
2013
Francisco, a man with autism resides secluded, ignored and locked away. He's a burden on his brothers, and decides to flee into the forest, where he b...

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

El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza
2012
as El Jefe (voice)
Santos, an overweight pacheco fighter suffers from his recent divorce with La Tetona Mendoza, a voluptuous and wild female fighter. To get out of his ...

The Arrival of Conrado Sierra
2012
as Don Chalio
Although situated in the 40s, The Arrival of Conrado Sierra is an ode to women's freedom in all ages. Five sisters, known in the town as Las Josefitas...

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas
2012
as Burrona
In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing eac...

El vampiro de la ortografía
2012
as Narrador

Savages
2012
as El Azul
Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.

Marcelo
2012
Marcelo feels he's found the incarnation of his favorite superhero in Julio, his troublesome and eccentric neighbor whose biggest dream is to become a...

Pastorela
2011
as Agente Jesús "Chucho" Juárez
Agent Jesus Juarez (aka Chucho) has always played the Devil in his town's Nativity Play. This Christmas, when the new pastor of the church recasts the...

La Revolución De Juan Escopeta
2011
as Juan Escopeta (voice)
Mexico 1914. During the Revolution, a raid by the army in a small mining town leaves Gapo, 11, orphaned. Taken captive to be turned into a child soldi...

A Better Life
2011
as Blasco Martinez
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for t...

Saving Private Pérez
2011
as Rosalío
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...

Te Presento a Laura
2010
as Guadalupe
This is the story of 23-year-old Laura who lives in the largest city in the world and yet feels alone. She also knows the exact date in which she'll d...

El Infierno
2010
as El Cochiloco
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.

Segurança Nacional
2010
as Hector Gasca

Sucedió en un día
2010

Estrella de Plata
2009
as Estrella de Plata
Bruno, an aging taxi driver who yearns for his secret past and likes "lucha libre", has trouble relating with his young son Ricardo. But his past come...

Me importas tú... y tú
2009
Nerdy college boy gets romantic advice from the apparition of a dead film star.

Backyard
2009
as Peralta
Officer Blanca Bravo arrives in Juarez, Mexico — a grim nexus of corporate colonialism and sexual tourism — to investigate a rash of killings targetin...

Good Will
2009
A young man learns that people don't expect others to have good intentions.

Rudo & Cursi
2008
as Arnulfo
Two brothers living a hard life of manual labor in rural Mexico have a simple dream: saving enough money to build their mother her dream house. But fa...

Quantum of Solace
2008
as General Medrano
Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond...

Teo's Journey
2008
Separated from his father after illegally crossing the Mexico-U.S. border, young Teo and his new friend, Chuy, set off on a dangerous quest across the...

Tear This Heart Out
2008
as Juan
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new fem...

Enlightened Blood
2008
Six characters narrate their complex existence through his slides from one to another body, to form a network of shared memories and experiences. The ...

Love, Pain and Vice Versa
2008
as Agente
Chelo is an architect, withdrawing from her social life because of realistic dreams she's having of a romance with a strange man. She's convinced the ...

Karma
2007
as Agustín / Yadhira
During a common day, in Torreón Coahuila, six extremely different people found a nexus Moved by the destiny. Leonardo, Selina, Daniel, Agustí, Artemio...

The Wall
2007
as Miguel
La Pared, explores the nature of human instinct and the concept of action and reaction. Miguel finds himself struggling against the gossip he hears ab...

Infierno Grande
2006
Based on a real event, where the municipal president, in order to clean the image of his people before a politician's visit, "throws" a group of menta...

Personal Effects
2006
as Conductor
At 18, fresh from high school, Marina, Ignacio, Adam and Mimi, school mates bonded by fate, shared a dream about adult life, a dream of fame, success,...

A Wonderful World
2006
as Vagabundo
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.

The Other José
2005
as José
José, a taxi driver in Mexico City, loses his temper at the slightest thing. After causing a lot of trouble over a woman who doesn´t love him, he trie...

Tin Man
2005
as Mendigo / Verdugo
The night guard of a big warehouse gives every night food and a place to sleep to a couple of homeless: and old man a little girl. After having a nigh...

Killing Cabos
2004
as Ruben "Mascarita"
Two young men get involved with some criminals while trying to free the tycoon they kidnapped.

Without Rhyme or Reason
2003
Orlando (Juan Manuel Bernal) is a neurotic dubbing director of series B that desqui-ta of all your frustrations and anger with their coworkers. Orland...

El Tigre de Santa Julia
2002
as Contrabandista
An army deserter turned bandit robs from thieves to give the money to the poor. He was famous for being caught by the police "with his pants down"

The Blue Room
2002
as Maestro de Obras
A couple meet each other often in a motel room.

Una de dos
2002
Two spinster twin sisters decide, after meeting a man in a ball that they will share him as a boyfriend. The only incovenience is that the man doesn'...

Infatuacion
N/A
as Det. Fernández
The mysterious disappearance of Mara leads Detective Fernandez on a relentless pursuit of a serial killer while fighting a corrupt police force and pu...
Maricota y el tiempo
N/A
In 1940s Amazonia, a Mexican man in search of himself and a Bolivian woman with dreams of a brighter future struggle to build a family, confronting th...