Damián Alcázar

Damián Alcázar (born January 8, 1953 in Jiquilpan, Michoacán, Mexico) is a Mexican actor and politician, who is best known outside of Mexcico as Lord Sopespian in the Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. He was a deputy in the Constituent Assembly of Mexico City.

Damián Alcázar
Alcázar in 2019
Born	January 8, 1953 Jiquilpan Michoacán, Mexico
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1985 - present

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 tapes Under California: The Time Limit, by Carlos Bolado, and in Crónicas, by Sebastián Cordero. He also won the prize for best actor at the Festival of Valladolid (Spain), for the latter.

He received Ariel for Best Supporting Actor for El anzuelo by Ernesto Rimoch; by Lolo, Francisco Athié, and for the success of Carlos Carrera, The Crime of Father Amaro. Damián has been nominated to receive this same award four other times. He won the award for Best Actor at the Cartagena Film Festival (Colombia) for the film Two Crimes, by Roberto Sneider.

He has also worked on telenovelas, being the most recent 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.[1]

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	La Ley de Herodes	Juan Vargas	Ariel Award for Best Actor
1999	Sofía	Pedro
2000	Compassionate Sex	Virgin man
2000	Crónica de un desayuno	Taxist
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	Sargento 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	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
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

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	General 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 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

References

1. Suárez, Gerardo (2017-01-11). "Damián Alcázar renuncia a la Asamblea Constituyente". El Universal (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2020-12-19. Retrieved 2020-12-19.

External links

• Damián Alcázar at IMDb