# Chino Darín

Ricardo Mario Darín (born 14 January 1989), known professionally as Chino Darín, is an Argentine actor and film producer.
He has had prominent film roles in Death in Buenos Aires (2014), The Queen of Spain (2016) and A Twelve-Year Night (2018). In 2018, he was nominated for the Best Actor award by the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences, for his role in the true crime film, El Angel.
He is also known for his television roles in Argentina and Spain. He received a Martín Fierro Awards nomination for Best Actor in a miniseries for his role in Historia de un clan (2015). He also appeared in Farsantes (2013-14), La embajada (2016) and El Reino (2021-23). He currently stars in Iron Reign (2024).

## Early life

Ricardo Mario Darín was born on 14 January 1989 in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Buenos Aires Province, to actor Ricardo Darín and Florencia Bas.

## Career

He debuted as an actor in 2010 in the Argentine telenovela, Alguien que me quiera, where he rubbed shoulders with figures such as Andrea del Boca, Osvaldo Laport and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez among others. A year later, in 2011, he appeared in Los Únicos, as Dante.
In 2012, he made his film debut starring alongside Diego Peretti and Fernando Tejero, in the Argentine-Spanish film, En fuera de juego.
In 2014, he starred in the film Death in Buenos Aires, where he played the agent "El Ganso", a young homosexual police officer from the 1980s.
In 2015, he starred in three films: the film comedy Volley, directed by Martín Piroyansky, the thriller Pasaje de vida, directed by Diego Corsini, and Uno mismo, an intimate story, directed by Gabriel Arregui. In addition, he had special appearances in the Telefe sitcom Viudas e hijos del Rock & Roll, and in the HBO series El hypnotizador, starring Leonardo Sbaraglia. The same year he starred in the Telefe series, Historia de un clan, directed by Luis Ortega. The series portrays the true story of the Puccio Clan, a family that kidnapped and murdered people in the last years of the last Argentine civic-military dictatorship. There he played Alejandro Puccio, the son of the family patriarch, Arquímedes Puccio.
In 2019, he starred together with his father Ricardo Darín, alongside Luis Brandoni and Verónica Llinás in the film Heroic Losers directed by Sebastián Borensztein and co-produced by himself together with his father. The film is set during the December 2001 riots in Argentina.
From 2021 to 2023, he was part of the cast of the Argentine Netflix series, El reino, along with Diego Peretti, Mercedes Morán and Peter Lanzani.
In 2022, he was one of the producers of Argentina, 1985, a film nominated at 2023 Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film.
Outside of film and television, he also works as a male model and has fronted campaigns for male fashion brands.

## Personal life

In June 2016, he announced that he was in a relationship with Spanish actress Úrsula Corberó, whom he met on the set of the TV show La embajada.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2011 | En fuera de juego (Offside) | Gustavo César | |
| 2014 | Death in Buenos Aires | El Ganso | |
| 2015 | Volley | Ignacio "Nacho" | |
| 2015 | Pasaje de vida | Young Miguel | |
| 2015 | Uno mismo | One | |
| 2016 | The Queen of Spain | Leonardo Sánchez | |
| 2016 | Angelita, la doctora | Iván | |
| 2016 | Primavera | Gino | |
| 2016 | Era el cielo | Néstor | |
| 2018 | El ángel | Ramón Peralta | |
| 2018 | Las leyes de la termodinámica | Pablo | |
| 2018 | A Twelve-Year Night | Mauricio Rosencof | |
| 2018 | Mirage | Inspector Leira | |
| 2019 | Heroic Losers | Rodrigo Perlassi | |
| 2022 | Stories Not to Be Told | Álex | |
| 2022 | Argentina, 1985 | — | Producer only |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2010 | Alguien que me quiera | Stuka | 77 episodes |
| 2011–2012 | Los únicos | Dante/Marco Montacuarto | 56 episodes |
| 2013–2014 | Farsantes | Fabián Graziani | 90 episodes |
| 2015 | Viudas e hijos del Rock & Roll | Franco Pilares/Franco Bettini | 1 episode |
| 2015 | El hipnotizador | Gregorio | 2 episodes |
| 2015 | Historia de un clan | Alejandro Puccio | Main role |
| 2016 | La embajada | Carlos Guillén | 11 episodes |
| 2021–2023 | El reino  [es] | Julio Clamens | 14 episodes |
| 2023 | Mano de hierro | Víctor | 6 episodes |

### Host

| Year | Program | Channel |
| 2013–2014 | ESPN redes | ESPN+ |
| 2014 | Circuito Argentina | América TV |

### Theater

| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Ref. |
| 2011 | Los Kaplan | Sergio Kaplan | Teatro del Globo | |

## Awards and nominations

List of awards and nominations received by Chino Darín :
| Ceremony | Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| ACE Awards | 2012 | Los Kaplan | Male Revelation | Nominated |
| Martín Fierro Awards | 2016 | Historia de un clan | Best leading actor in miniseries | Nominated |
| Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival | 2015 | Death in Buenos Aires | Best Actor | Won |
| Nickelodeon Argentina Kids' Choice Awards | 2012 | Los únicos | Revelation | Nominated |
| Notirey Awards | 2016 | Historia de un clan | Best Leading Actor | Won |
| Premios Sur | 2018 | El Angel | Best Actor | Nominated |
| Platino Awards | 2022 | El reino  [es] | Best leading actor in miniseries | Nominated |
| Tato Awards | 2012 | Los únicos | Revelation | Nominated |
| Tato Awards | 2013 | Farsantes | Best Supporting Actor | Nominated |
| Tato Awards | 2015 | Historia de un clan | Best Leading Actor | Nominated |