A Modern Mexican Heartthrob: Gael Garcia Bernal

A difficult challenge for any actor, Mexican or not

, Gael Garcia Bernal has managed to become a strong representative figure for his country's entertainment industry. Having worked with many of the best directors available in this era, he has even managed to cross over from acting, to do some directing as well. Considered handsome by many, he also has the brains and talent to leverage his assets into being Mexico's modern-day heartthrob.

Beginning his career as a toddler, Gael worked in various telenovelas (Mexican soap operas), throughout his teens, and was nurtured by his actress mother and director father, as he was growing up in Guadalajara.. He has spent his off time working with local cultures to encourage literacy in remote areas of his home state, and also studied at the International Baccalaureate level doing advanced work.. Despite having captured the hearts of every teenaged girl with a television by the age of 19, Garcia Bernal was called to Europe.

Garcia Bernal still considered his dramatic career to be only supplemental employment, even after he had been accepted into the acting program at London's Central School of Speech and Drama.. He found his place in the film industry, when he was offered a role by the famous Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez, while he was a student in the UK studying philosophy. Nominated for a Best Foreign Film Academy Award, 'Amores Perros' has been likened to Quinten Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction' when it was made in 2000..

His formidable talent has garnered him roles in films worked upon by some of Mexico's best directors. The 2001 drama 'Y tu Mama Tambien' garnered the highest opening box office weekend in Mexican film history; Gael also starred as a transsexual actor in Pedro Almodovar's 'Bad Education', and won much praise for his portrayal of the tormented priest in 'El Crimen del Padre Amaro'.

Garcia Bernal has also struck out into Hollywood films as well, in movies such as 'The Science of Sleep' and 'Blindness'. He portrayed the young Che Guevara in 2004's 'The Motorcycle Diaries', and has directed a feature, 'Deficit', released in 2007. He is set to don the black mask and cape in a new Zorro production (a Mexican bandit that operated throughout the state of California in the USA, is who the Zorro-like character is actually based on),

and he is going to star with Daniel Day Lewis in a new Martin Scorsese-created work.. A telenovela veteran, he's doing pretty well for a pretty-faced kid!

by: Robert Nickel

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