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Gerardo Taracena

Gerardo Taracena

Acting

Biography

Gerardo Taracena (born 1970) was 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.

Known For

Apocalypto
7.6

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 world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.

Apocalypto

2006
Narcos: Mexico
7.9

See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.

Narcos: Mexico

2018
Queen of the South
7.6

Teresa flees Mexico after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Settling in Dallas, she looks to become the country's reigning drug smuggler and to avenge her lover's murder.

Queen of the South

2016
Sin Nombre
7.6

Sayra, a Native Honduran teenager, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Indigenous Mexican and Mestizo-Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same USA-bound train.

Sin Nombre

2009
Man on Fire
7.5

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 eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

Man on Fire

2004
40 y 20
8.1

A comedy series about a divorced dad who likes younger women, and his son who likes older women.

40 y 20

2016
Sound of Freedom
8.0

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.

Sound of Freedom

2023
El Infierno
7.9

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.

El Infierno

2010
Cóyotl, Hero and Beast
7.6

In a small town in northern Mexico, where two drug cartels rule, the young man Lupe embraces his dangerous fate. He transforms into Coyotl, a mythical creature that is half man and half beast. With this transformation, Lupe wants to become the protector his people so desperately need.

Cóyotl, Hero and Beast

2025
Deseo
6.5

Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.

Deseo

2013
Prison Cell 211
7.4

Caught in a prison riot, a human rights lawyer poses as an inmate to survive. As he blends in, chaos and personal loss unveil the darkness within him.

Prison Cell 211

2025
The Mexican
6.0

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 pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.

The Mexican

2001
Get the Gringo
6.6

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.

Get the Gringo

2012
El Candidato
6.9

Rookie CIA field operative Isabel Alfaro works alongside infamous CIA legend Wayne Addison to bring down Rafael Bautista, Mexico's most vicious and brilliant narco. Her mission brings her into conflict with Eduardo Yzaguirre, her former boyfriend and the current Mayor of Mexico City, the cleanest and most inspirational politician in the country.

El Candidato

2020
Chupa
6.3

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 lifetime.

Chupa

2023
Unburied
6.4

Aylín, a teenager from a working-class neighborhood, discovers her supernatural abilities: when she eats soil, she has visions that help her find missing people. Together with her brother and friends, she learns to master this new power. As her skills strengthen, she becomes a heroine fighting against the violence and injustice plaguing her neighborhood.

Unburied

2025
Perseguidos
5.0

Persecuted (Mauricio Islas) José Vicente Solís Armenta is a criminal prosecuted for justice for his crimes against humanity. After being betrayed, the authorities finally manage to track him down and want him dead or alive. Solís Armenta, on his way to escape, has to deal with his wife, who he cheated on, one of his lovers who seeks to assassinate him, and a bodyguard who seems to succumb to his charms. Given this adverse scenario, José Vicente declares a war without quarter to the authorities, but discovers that the real fight is against himself and perhaps, the only way of redemption is death. Mexican version of the Colombian series 'El capo'.

Perseguidos

2016
Harina
8.3

The misadventures of Lieutenant Harina and his partner, Officer Ramírez, a very special police couple, who find themselves with the opportunity of a lifetime

Harina

2022
Tres milagros
7.4

Three women who are born on the same day and at the same time are marked by a prophecy: the day the three meet and fall in love with the same man, one of them will die. Despite coming from opposite worlds, their paths inevitably cross.

Tres milagros

2018
Don't Blame the Kid
7.7

After a one-night stand results in pregnancy, a young woman decides to become partners with the emotionally immature father-to-be.

Don't Blame the Kid

2016