# Daniel Giménez Cacho

Daniel Giménez Cacho (born May 15, 1961) is a Spanish-born Mexican actor. He is known for portraying Tito the Coroner in Cronos (1993) and We Are What We Are (2010).

## Early life

Daniel Giménez Cacho was born on May 15, 1961 in Madrid, as the youngest of the six children of Luis Giménez Cacho and Julia García Casado [es], two actors who performed in the theatre company La Barraca. In Mexico, his mother also became a noted painter as a disciple of Elvira Gascón. He moved to Mexico as a child and studied theatre at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

## Career

He starred in several Mexican films and television series, such as Sólo Con Tu Pareja, Cronos, Midaq Alley, Tear This Heart Out and Bad Education. He has worked with several prominent Hispanic filmmakers, including Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, Jorge Fons and Pedro Almodóvar. He appeared in La hora marcada, the series written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro, and in the Mexican telenovela Teresa. His voice is heard throughout Y tu mamá también as the narrator. In 2009, he starred in the Mexican remake for the Argentinian series Locas de Amor. Cacho played the Armenian priest in The Promise, a film set in the Armenian genocide.

## Filmography

* Bandidos [es] (1991)
* Solo con tu pareja (1991)
* Cabeza de Vaca (1991)
* Cronos (1993)
* Midaq Alley (1995)
* Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto (1995)
* Profundo Carmesí (1996)
* Celos (Jealousy) (1999)
* El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba (No One Writes to the Colonel) (1999)
* Y tu mamá también (narrator) (2001)
* Sin vergüenza (2001)
* Asesino en serio (2002)
* Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino (2002)
* No somos nadie (2002)
* Nicotina (2003)
* La mala educación (Bad Education) (2004)
* Perder es cuestión de método (2004)
* Voces inocentes (2004)
* Las vidas de Celia (2006)
* La zona (2007)
* Arráncame la vida (2008)
* I'm Gonna Explode (2008)
* El Infierno (2010)
* We Are What We Are (Somos Lo Que Hay) (2010)
* Get the Gringo (2012)
* Colosio: El asesinato (2012)
* Blancanieves (2012)
* El Santos vs. La Tetona Mendoza (2012)
* El Jeremías (2015)
* A Monster with a Thousand Heads (2015)
* Club de Cuervos (2015-)
* You're Killing Me Susana (2016)
* The Promise (2016)
* The Summit (2017)
* Zama (2017)
* The Eternal Feminine (2017)
* Chicuarotes (2019)
* Devil Between the Legs (2019)
* Memoria (2021)
* Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022)
* Familia (2023)
* Kill the Jockey (2024)

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
| 1993 | 35th Ariel Awards | Best Actor in a Minor Role | Cronos | Won |
| 1995 | 37th Ariel Awards | Best Supporting Actor | El callejón de los milagros | Nominated |
| 1997 | 39th Ariel Awards | Best Actor | Deep Crimson | Won |
| 2003 | 45th Ariel Awards | Best Actor | Aro Tolbukhin: In the Mind of a Killer | Won |
| 2004 | 46th Ariel Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Nicotina | Won |
| 2013 | 27th Goya Awards | Best Actor | Snow White | Nominated |
| 2013 | 55th Ariel Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Colosio, el asesinato | Won |
| 2013 | 22nd Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Film Actor in a Leading Role | Snow White | Nominated |
| 2018 | 60th Ariel Awards | Best Actor | Los adioses | Nominated |
| 2018 | 12th Sur Awards | Best Actor | Zama | Won |
| 2020 | 62nd Ariel Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Chicuarotes | Nominated |
| 2022 | 64th Ariel Awards | Best Supporting Actor | El diablo entre las piernas | Nominated |
| 2023 | 65th Ariel Awards | Best Actor | Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths | Won |
| 2024 | 66th Ariel Awards | Best Actor | Familia | Nominated |

## Political views

In October 2023, he joined the open letter called "Artists Against Apartheid" during the concurrent escalation of violence in Palestine.