# Damián Alcázar

Damián Alcázar (born January 8, 1953) is a Mexican actor and politician, who is best known outside of Mexico as Lord Sopespian in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and Alberto Reyes in Blue Beetle. He was a deputy in the Constituent Assembly of Mexico City from the MORENA political party.

## Career

Damián Alcázar studied acting first at the National Institute of Fine Arts and at the Theatrical Experimentation Center, then continued at the Faculty of Theater of the Veracruz University, where in later years he would work as a teacher.
He served as an actor for eight years in two theatre companies, alongside the most prestigious directors in Mexico. Notably under the direction of George Labaudan, he appeared on Jean Genet's play, The Balcony.
He has appeared in six foreign films and more than twenty-eight Mexican films. He was awarded the Ariel for Best Actor in 1999 and in 2004, for the films Under California: The Time Limit, by Carlos Bolado, and Crónicas, by Sebastián Cordero. He also won the prize for Best Actor at the Festival of Valladolid in Spain, for the latter.
He received the Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actor for El anzuelo, by Ernesto Rimoch; for Lolo, by Francisco Athié; and for Carlos Carrera's successful film, The Crime of Padre Amaro. Alcázar has been nominated to receive this same award four other times. He won the award for Best Actor at the Cartagena Film Festival in Colombia for the film Two Crimes, by Roberto Sneider.
He has also worked on telenovelas, the most recent one being Secretos del corazón, produced by Epigmenio Ibarra for TV Azteca.
In April 2013 he was awarded the Honor Prize of the Latin American Film Show of Lleida with José Coronado.
In June 2016 he was elected as deputy by the political party MORENA in the Constituent Assembly of Mexico City, but left the position in January 2017 after being absent for three months.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1985 | El centro del laberinto | | Short film |
| 1986 | Debutantes | | Short film |
| 1987 | Pasa en las mejores familias | | |
| 1987 | Carta de un sobrino | | Short film |
| 1989 | Romero | Campesino | |
| 1989 | La ciudad al desnudo | La Suavecita | Nominated — Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 1990 | La ciudad al desnudo | | Short film |
| 1991 | Un cielo cruel y una tierra colorada | | Short film |
| 1991 | Sombra de ángel | | Short film |
| 1991 | La leyenda de una máscara | Olmo Robles | |
| 1991 | Bandidos | Mexican man | |
| 1991 | Mujer del puerto | Marro | |
| 1991 | El Patrullero | Suspect #1 | |
| 1991 | Diplomatic Immunity | Pool Cleaner / Hitman | Uncredited |
| 1992 | De barros | | Short film |
| 1992 | Cita en el paraíso | Pablo | Short film |
| 1993 | Abuelita de Bakman | Escritor | |
| 1993 | Lolo | Marcelino | Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 1994 | Ámbar | Prisoner #3 | |
| 1995 | Dos crímenes | Marcos González | Nominated — Ariel Award for Best Actor |
| 1995 | Algunas nubes | La Rata | |
| 1995 | En el aire | Cmdr. Paco | |
| 1996 | Tres minutos en la oscuridad | | |
| 1996 | El anzuelo | Humberto | Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 1996 | Katuwira | Caronte | |
| 1996 | Overkill | José | |
| 1997 | Men with Guns | Padre Portillo | |
| 1998 | Bajo California: El límite del tiempo | Damián | Ariel Award for Best Actor |
| 1999 | Ave María | Cuña | |
| 1999 | Herod's Law | Juan Vargas | Ariel Award for Best Actor |
| 1999 | Sofía | Pedro | |
| 2000 | Compassionate Sex | Virgin man | |
| 2000 | Crónica de un desayuno | Taxi driver | |
| 2001 | Pachito Rex - Me voy pero no del todo | | |
| 2001 | La habitación azul | Garduño | |
| 2002 | The Crime of Father Amaro | Padre Natalio Pérez | Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2004 | Crónicas | Vinicio Cepeda | Ariel Award for Best Actor |
| 2004 | Héctor | Martín | |
| 2005 | Borderland | Ulises | |
| 2005 | Las vueltas del citrillo | Sargent Collazo | Ariel Award for Best Actor |
| 2006 | Un mundo maravilloso | Juan Pérez | |
| 2006 | Only God Knows | Presagio | |
| 2006 | Fuera del cielo | Officer Rojas | |
| 2007 | Satanás | Eliseo | |
| 2007 | ¡Pega Martín pega! | | |
| 2008 | El viaje de Teo | Wenceslao | |
| 2008 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Lord Sopespian | |
| 2009 | Marea de arena | | |
| 2009 | Bala mordida | Commander | |
| 2009 | Don't Let Me Drown | Ramón | |
| 2009 | Of Love and Other Demons | Abrenuncio | |
| 2009 | 2009 | Corto libre | |
| 2010 | De la infancia | Basilio Niebla | |
| 2010 | Chicogrande | Chicogrande | |
| 2010 | Garcia | Garcia | |
| 2010 | El Infierno | Benjamín "El Benny" García | Ariel Award for Best Actor |
| 2010 | El último comandante | Paco Jarquín | |
| 2012 | Fecha de caducidad | Genaro | |
| 2012 | Hermano lejano | Psychologist | |
| 2013 | Ciudadano Buelna | Lucio Blanco | |
| 2013 | Forgotten | José Mendieta | |
| 2014 | The Perfect Dictatorship | Governor Carmelo Vargas | |
| 2014 | La sargento Matacho | Feliciano Pachón | |
| 2014 | Eddie Reynolds y los ángeles de acero | Lalo / Eddie | Winner - Best Actor at the Hermosillo International Film Festival |
| 2014 | Magallanes | | |
| 2015 | The Thin Yellow Line | Toño | Nominated — Ariel Award for Best Actor |
| 2019 | The Mongolian Conspiracy | Filiberto García | |
| 2019 | Miss Bala | Chief Rafael Saucedo | |
| 2021 | The Mighty Victoria | Don Federico | |
| 2021 | Presencias | | |
| 2022 | The Monroy Affaire | Ronnie Monroy | |
| 2023 | Blue Beetle | Alberto Reyes | |
| 2023 | The Four Altars | Don Abel | |
| 2023 | ¡Que viva México! | Rosendo | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1986 | El camino secreto | José Luis | |
| 1990 | Mi pequeña Soledad | Florentino | |
| 1991 | Yo no creo en los hombres | Juan | |
| 1999 | Cuentos para solitarios | Ramón | Episode: "La mala hora de Ramón" |
| 2000–2001 | Todo por amor | Don Mariano | |
| 2003 | And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself | Gen. Rodolfo Fierro | Television film |
| 2003–2004 | El alma herida | Francisco "Frank" López | |
| 2009–2012 | Kdabra | René | 33 episodes |
| 2010 | Las Aparicio | Hernán Almada | |
| 2011 | El encanto del águila | Plutarco Elías Calles | 3 episodes |
| 2012 | Lynch | Eduardo Zúñiga | 2 episodes |
| 2012 | Capadocia | Alberto Gómez | 7 episodes |
| 2014 | Metástasis | Tuco Salamanca | 4 episodes |
| 2014 | Señora Acero | Vicente Acero | Guest role (season 1); archive footage (seasons 2-3) |
| 2015–2016 | El Dandy | Juan Antonio Ramírez / El Chueco | Main role |
| 2016–2017 | 2091 | Sr. Patrick Hull | 12 episodes |
| 2016–2017 | Narcos | Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela | Main role; 18 episodes |
| 2017 | Sin senos sí hay paraíso | Don Chalo | Recurring role |
| 2018 | José José, el príncipe de la canción | José Sosa Esquivel | Recurring role |
| 2018 | Rubirosa | Rafael Trujillo | |
| 2019 | Preso No. 1 | Salvador | Recurring role |
| 2021- 2022 | Acapulco | Don Pablo Bonilla | Recurring role |
| 2021 | Narcos: Mexico | Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela | |