Emilio Echevarría

Emilio Echevarría
Born (1944-07-03) 3 July 1944 (age 80)
Mexico City, Mexico
Alma materNational Autonomous University of Mexico
OccupationActor
Years active1978–present

Emilio Antonio Echevarría Noriega (born 3 July 1944) is a Mexican actor.

Career

Echevarría began his acting career in 1978 as a member of the Constitution of Art and Society. He appeared in Amores Perros as the hitman and ex-guerrilla nicknamed "El Chivo" (The Goat), and Y tu mamá también, which also co-starred Gael García Bernal. He has also had small parts in two international productions, first as Raoul, a Cuban agent in the James Bond film Die Another Day and then as Antonio López de Santa Anna in The Alamo.

In 2007, he appeared in El Búfalo de la Noche along with Y tu mamá Tambien co-star Diego Luna, written by Amores Perros author Guillermo Arriaga. In 2011, he played Sabio in a Mexican production of Gabriel García Márquez's "Memories of My Melancholy Whores". The film was directed by Henning Carlsen and also stars Geraldine Chaplin and Ángela Molina.[citation needed]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1987 Un dia crucial para Ausencio Paredes
1989 Intimidad
1990 Morir en el golfo Contacto
1991 Intimidades de un cuarto de baño Juan
1991 Los pasos de Ana
1994 Novia que te vea Maestro
1994 Ámbar Capitán Borsac
1996 Sucesos distantes Victor Fet
1999 Preludio
2000 Amores perros El Chivo
2001 Y tu mamá también Miguel Iturbide
2002 Life Kills Heliut
2002 Die Another Day Raoul
2004 The Alamo Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
2006 Babel Emilio
2007 El búfalo de la noche Ramírez
2007 Malos hábitos Ramón / Padre de Matilde / Matilde's father
2010 El mar muerto Teporocho
2010 Sin memoria Torres
2011 Memoria de mis putas tristes Sabio / Journalist-old
2011 El sueño de Lu Lucia's Father
2012 Colosio: El asesinato Don Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios
2014 Words with Gods
2014 Filosofía Natural del Amor Narrador Voice
2015 A Monster with a Thousand Heads Enrique Sandoval Núñez
2016 The Chosen Salazar

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