Born: 30 November 1978 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

Gael García Bernal is a Mexican actor and director. He was born in Guadalajara to Patricia Bernal (an actress and former model) and José Ángel García (an actor and director). His stepfather is Sergio Yasbek, who his mother married when he was young. Garcia Bernal started acting at a young age and spent most his teen years starring in soap operas.

At age 19, Garcia Bernal left Mexico's television world to study acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Subsequently, he has starred in some of Mexico's most celebrated recent films, beginning with Amores Perros (2000), then 2001's Y Tu Mamá También, and El Crimen del Padre Amaro (2002). It was his debut as a working-class street thug in the Oscar-nominated Amores Perros that first grabbed Hollywood's attention.

Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.

Garcia Bernal also portrayed Cubano revolutionary Che Guevara in 2004's The Motorcycle Diaries, an adaptation of a journal a 23-year-old Guevara wrote about his travels across South America.

He has also done some theatre work, including a 2005 production of Bodas de sangre ("Blood Wedding"), by Federico García Lorca in the Almeida theatre, London. Garcia Bernal speaks fluent Spanish and English as well as speaking Portuguese, French and Italian to some degree.