Personal Info
Birth date
1970-01-01 (55 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Also known as
-Gerardo Taracena
Biography
Gerardo Taracena (born 1970) is a Mexican film and theatre actor and dancer. He is known for his roles in Apocalypto, Man on Fire, The Mexican and Sin Nombre as well as the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico. He was born in Mexico City.
Filmography
40 y 20
8
Overview:
A comedy series about a divorced dad who likes younger women, and his son who likes older women.Queen of the South
7.581
Overview:
Teresa flees Mexico after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Settling in Dallas, she looks to become the country's reigning drug smuggler and to avenge her lover's murder.Narcos: Mexico
7.931
Overview:
See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.Cóyotl, Hero and Beast
7.684
Overview:
In a small town in northern Mexico, where two drug cartels rule, the young man Lupe embraces his dangerous fate. He transforms into Coyotl, a mythical creature that is half man and half beast. With this transformation, Lupe wants to become the protector his people so desperately need.Prison Cell 211
7.5
Overview:
Caught in a prison riot, a human rights lawyer poses as an inmate to survive. As he blends in, chaos and personal loss unveil the darkness within him.Harina
8.4
Overview:
The misadventures of Lieutenant Harina and his partner, Officer Ramírez, a very special police couple, who find themselves with the opportunity of a lifetimePedal to Metal
6.9
Overview:
After a race they drive in ends fatally, friends Kike and Noche flee to Mexico City to hide, rebuild their lives and escape danger ... or at least try.Apocalypto
7.59
Overview:
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.Perseguidos
3
Overview:
Persecuted (Mauricio Islas) José Vicente Solís Armenta is a criminal prosecuted for justice for his crimes against humanity. After being betrayed, the authorities finally manage to track him down and want him dead or alive. Solís Armenta, on his way to escape, has to deal with his wife, who he cheated on, one of his lovers who seeks to assassinate him, and a bodyguard who seems to succumb to his charms. Given this adverse scenario, José Vicente declares a war without quarter to the authorities, but discovers that the real fight is against himself and perhaps, the only way of redemption is death. Mexican version of the Colombian series 'El capo'.Sound of Freedom
8
Overview:
The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers.Man on Fire
7.458
Overview:
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.Niño Santo
8
Overview:
A deadly outbreak affects the south of the country , so that policies and health authorities sent a group of three young doctors to vaccinate people across the region and teach preventive health measures . However , during their cross a village called Aguazul , where the population is mysteriously reluctant to visit, even the doctor in charge of this town warns them not to try to vaccinate their inhabitants , but young people do not listen and heading embark that it will be the last people on your route . Thus begin a series of strange events , and as you go deeper into this world " in the name of science ," witness extraordinary phenomena outside reality , all related to a famous " boy " who confronts his rigid scientific arguments against the possibilities of faith.El Infierno
7.877
Overview:
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.El Candidato
6.9
Overview:
Rookie CIA field operative Isabel Alfaro works alongside infamous CIA legend Wayne Addison to bring down Rafael Bautista, Mexico's most vicious and brilliant narco. Her mission brings her into conflict with Eduardo Yzaguirre, her former boyfriend and the current Mayor of Mexico City, the cleanest and most inspirational politician in the country.Chupa
6.349
Overview:
While visiting family in Mexico, a lonely boy befriends a mythical creature hiding on his grandfather's ranch and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime.Get the Gringo
6.581
Overview:
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.Sin Nombre
7.604
Overview:
Sayra, a Honduran teen, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same American-bound train.The Mexican
5.936
Overview:
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.Don't Blame the Kid
7.732
Overview:
After a one-night stand results in pregnancy, a young woman decides to become partners with the emotionally immature father-to-be.Quite Like Paradise
7.403
Overview:
Ugo Conti, charismatic Italian aristocrat and influencer, arrives in Mexico where he seduces the Mexican high society. When he meets Frida Becker again, the love of his past, he will end up in the center of a struggle for political power.Arcadia
NYR
Overview:
Pablo seemingly has it all and is living a quiet life in the Canary Islands, in the peaceful town of Arcadia. Pablo, however, has a dark and dangerous past. Once living on the edge in Mexico, he escaped a life of violence after becoming a father. The wife he left behind has never forgiven him and has now returned, ready to shatter the world he's built.Deseo
6.6
Overview:
Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.Sobreviviendo mis XV
7.4
Overview:
Quinceañeras, a magical age... except when your family wants to put you in a bulky dress and make you waltz in front of everyone, which is exactly what happens to Danae shortly after she transfers to a very proper private school. Now Danae has to manage to balance the demands of her family, those of her new friends and organize a cool, but traditional, but modern, but emotional, but aesthetic, but also grandmother-pleasing Quinceañera party... without dying in the process.Come Out and Play
5.073
Overview:
A couple take a vacation to a remote island - their last holiday together before they become parents. Soon after their arrival, they notice that no adults seem to be present - an observation that quickly presents a nightmarish reality.The Zone
6.335
Overview:
Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders.Presencias
6.8
Overview:
A man who loses his wife and goes to seclude himself in a cabin in the woods, where strange things happen.Mexican Gangster
6.5
Overview:
Tells the story of the most prominent bank robber in the history of Mexico, his crimes, his different personalities, his career as a charro with a mariachi band, his getaways and the strange relationship he had with the one who finally came to stop him. Based on the true story of Alfredo Ríos Galeana.Saving Private Pérez
6.6
Overview:
La vida ha llevado a Julián Pérez por caminos equivocados, pero el destino le presentará a este hombre la oportunidad de encontrar su redención cuando es enviado a la misión más peligrosa y noble de toda su vida, una misión ordenada por la única autoridad que todavía respeta, su madre, Doña Elvira. Julián debe viajar hasta el otro extremo del mundo, a un lugar llamado Irak, a traer de vuelta vivo, a su hermano menor el soldado de infantería Juan Pérez. Con la promesa hecha, Julián Pérez regresa a su natal Sinaloa donde reclutará a un comando de elite, destinado a cumplir una misión suicida: viajar a Irak y salvar al soldado Pérez.Tlatelolco, Summer of 68'
6.179
Overview:
As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are running high and the eyes of the world are on Mexico and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Ana Maria, a student photographer and daughter of a high-ranking official, finds herself embroiled in the movement and is swept off her feet by Félix, a working-class architecture student. This film remembers the events that led to one of the darkest chapters in Mexico’s recent history: the massacre at Tlatelolco, 10 days before the opening of the Olympic Games.Acting
TBAArcadia (1 Episode) as Unknown
TBALunik 3 as Unknown
TBALa Ramona as Unknown
TBAPodcast, rapaces nocturnos as Fulgencio
2025Cóyotl, Hero and Beast (2, 6 Episode) as El Tule, Unknown
2025Prison Cell 211 (6 Episodes) as Cándara
2024Quite Like Paradise as Justino Nava
2023From Inside as Juan Infante
2023Sobreviviendo mis XV as Melchor
2023Héroes as Capitán Alvarado
2023Sound of Freedom as El Alacrán
2023Chupa as Police Officer
2022Presencias as Don Jaime
2022Pedal to Metal (10 Episodes) as Abel
2022Harina (2 Episodes) as Teniente Ramos
2022For Old Times' Sake as Luciano
2020El Candidato (1 Episode) as El Cocodrilo
2019Influence as Unknown
2019The Marquez-Castillo Siblings as Líder Rebeldes
2018Narcos: Mexico (11 Episodes) as Pablo Acosta
2018El Día de la Unión as Rescatista 1
2018At the Frontera as Eduardo Manrique
2018Las amantes del narco II as Don Chava
2018Tratante de blancas as Reportero
2018Waiting For Gordo as Unknown
2017La hora de Salvador Romero as Teodoro
2017Snail House as Hombre
2017Zhai as Cesar
2016El vecindario 3 as Ajolote
2016Perseguidos (60 Episodes) as Gustavo 'Tavo' Benítez
2016La Niña De La Mina as Carlos
2016Queen of the South (13 Episodes) as Cesar “Batman” Guemes
2016Don't Blame the Kid as Plutarco
201640 y 20 (1 Episode) as Macedonio
2016The Load as Itzmin
2016Number Eighty as Unknown
2016Boys on Film 14: Worlds Collide as Juan / Raúl's Father (segment "A World For Raúl")
2014Mexican Gangster as Raymundo
2014Ramona as Carmelo
2014Die Legende der Maske as Bo
2014A Shred Of Mist as Perito
2014Familia Gang as Unknown
2014Princesas de cartón as Felipe
2013Los hijos de Don Gregorio as Roberto
2013Flying low as Chuyin Venegas
2013Para armar un helicóptero as Unknown
2013Deseo as Marino
2013Richness of Internal Space as Tenso
2013Potosí as Javier
2013Tlatelolco, Summer of 68' as Militar 1 Tortura
2012Los Kokainos as Lic. Quintero
2012The Walls Talk as El Ojaiz
2012Come Out and Play as Unknown
2012A World for Raúl as Juan / Raúl's Father
20124 Maras as Unknown
2012Get the Gringo as Romero
2011Niño Santo (14 Episodes) as Santiago
2011Saving Private Pérez as Carmelo
2011Setback as Mario
2011Ladies Mafia as Rualas
2010El Infierno as Pancho Zopilote
2010Chilango Chronicles as Unknown
2010Sanguinarios del M1 as Junco Pantoja
2009El último chichiluco as Mazatzin
2009Sin Nombre as Horacio
2007The Zone as Carlos
2006Apocalypto as Middle Eye
2005The Violin as Genaro
2004Man on Fire as Executive Adjutant
2001De ida y vuelta as Unknown
2001Without a Trace as Niko
2001The Mexican as Reveler to Fire Gun
1994The Daughter of the Puma as Mateo Pérez Pérez