--- name: "Arturo Castro" canonical: "https://film.one/person/arturo-castro" fi1m_id: "arturo-castro" imdb_id: "nm3594330" tmdb_id: 1457999 wikidata_id: "Q27915334" roles: ["Actor"] born: "26 November 1985" reviewed_on_fi1m: 5 average_fi1m_score: 71 average_as: "actor" average_over: 5 updated: "2026-10-25T09:45:28.673004+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Arturo Castro ## Identity Arturo Castro - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/arturo-castro - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** arturo-castro - **IMDb ID:** nm3594330 - **TMDB ID:** 1457999 - **Wikidata ID:** Q27915334 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Castro_(Guatemalan_actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27915334, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3594330/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1457999 Actor. Born 26 November 1985 in Guatemala. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 26 November 1985, Guatemala - **Active:** 2014–present - **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as actor, over 5 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 78 (2), 2020s 66 (3) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 66 across 5 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 4 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Comedy 3, Drama 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Crime 1, Horror 1 - **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $222m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Castro_(Guatemalan_actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27915334, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3594330/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1457999 ## Coming up - *A Place in Hell* (2027-04-23) ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*The Menu*](https://film.one/film/the-menu.md) (72), [*TRON: Ares*](https://film.one/film/tron-ares.md) (50) - **Apple TV:** [*Broad City*](https://film.one/tv/broad-city.md) (80) - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Weird: The Al Yankovic Story*](https://film.one/film/weird-the-al-yankovic-story.md) (77) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Arturo Castro > Arturo Castro's gift is correction delivered so softly that the person being corrected does not notice for a while. It made him the quiet centre of *Broad City*; the films since have mostly asked him for something louder and less interesting. Watch Jaime, Ilana's flatmate in *Broad City*, tell her off. He does it in the tone of someone offering a second helping, and Ilana sails on regardless, and it is an episode later that she realises she has been told something. Castro plays a whole character in that gap. The flat is chaos and he is the person who quietly puts the chaos back, and the joke is never that he is a pushover; it is that he is right and in no hurry to be seen to be. We laughed hardest at how long the penny took to drop, and it was always his timing rather than the line that did it. He came to it sideways. Castro hosted Conexión on Guatemala's national network before moving to New York somewhere between 2005 and 2008 and training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where he met Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer. When they made *Broad City* (2014), Jaime was the part they wrote him, and he played it for the programme's whole run to 2019. In the middle of that he was also David Rodríguez in *Narcos* (2017), a dramatic part in a series about cartels, which is roughly the opposite job. "I don't want to play a cartoon," he said of Jaime, and it reads as a rule for the career. The rule produced *Alternatino with Arturo Castro* (2019), his own sketch series about modern Latino life, which is the plainest statement of what he is for: the parts he was not being offered, written by him. The films are a different story. *Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk* (2016), *The Menu* (2022) and *Road House* (2024) put him in ensembles where a soft-spoken man is easily lost, and then *TRON: Ares* (2025) cast him as Seth Flores in a film we scored 50. We found more to say about Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's score than about anyone in the cast, and Castro is in the film and then he is not. That is the film's doing, but it is also the risk of his method, which needs a room small enough for the quiet to register. So the recommendation is the obvious one: the first three seasons of *Broad City*, where the writing trusts him to be the still point and he repays it. He has another film in post-production as we write. We would rather someone gave him another flat and a friend who never listens. ## Biography Arturo Castro is a Guatemalan actor. Born in Guatemala City on 26 November 1985, he began his career hosting the programme *Conexion* on Guatemala's national network before moving to New York City. There he trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He is known for his role as Jaimé Castro in the Comedy Central series *Broad City* (2014–2019), David Rodríguez in season three of *Narcos* (2017), and Pablo Escobar in *Weird: The Al Yankovic Story* (2022). Film credits include *Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk* (2016), *Bushwick* (2017), *The Menu* (2022) and *Road House* (2024). He created and starred in the Comedy Central sketch series *Alternatino with Arturo Castro*. In 2025 he appeared as Seth Flores in *TRON: Ares*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, tron.fandom.com.* ## On Fi1m (5) - *TRON: Ares* (2025), Fi1m 50, as Seth Flores — [page](https://film.one/film/tron-ares.md) - *The Menu* (2022), Fi1m 72, as Soren — [page](https://film.one/film/the-menu.md) - *Weird: The Al Yankovic Story* (2022), Fi1m 77, as Pablo Escobar — [page](https://film.one/film/weird-the-al-yankovic-story.md) - *Narcos* (2015), Fi1m 76, as David Rodriguez — [page](https://film.one/tv/narcos.md) - *Broad City* (2014), Fi1m 80, as Jaime Castro — [page](https://film.one/tv/broad-city.md) ## Complete filmography (61) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *A Place in Hell* (2027), Actor - *Matchbox the Movie* (2026), as Ted — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/matchbox-the-movie.md) - *Into the Sky* (2026), Actor - *Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice* (2026), as Dumbass Tony - *Operation Taco Gary's* (2026), as Tiago - *Strip Law* (2026), series, as (voice) - *Untitled Home Invasion Romance* (2026), as Ernie Guerra - *Backyard Sports: The Animated Special* (2026), as Pablo Sanchez (voice) - *The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants* (2025), as Ride Operator - *The Room: A Tribute* (2025), as Steven - *TRON: Ares* (2025), as Seth Flores — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/tron-ares.md) - *Bad Thoughts* (2025), series, as Jose - *The Present* (2024), as Dr. Polhemus - *Road House* (2024), as Moe - *The Vince Staples Show* (2024), series, as Officer Gutierrez - *Molli and Max in the Future* (2024), as Walterius - *Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie!* (2023), as Dudley / Robin's Dad (voice) - *White Men Can't Jump* (2023), as Bobby - *History of the World: Part II* (2023), series, as Private Martinez - *The Recruit* (2022), series, as Sandoval Luna - *The Menu* (2022), as Soren — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-menu.md) - *Entergalactic* (2022), as Len (voice) - *Weird: The Al Yankovic Story* (2022), as Pablo Escobar — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/weird-the-al-yankovic-story.md) - *The Terminal List* (2022), series, as Jordan Groff - *The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder* (2022), series, as Neato Tito (voice) - *Catch the Fair One* (2022), Executive Producer - *Dating & New York* (2021), as Bradley - *Mr. Corman* (2021), series, as Victor Morales - *YES DAY* (2021), as Officer Jones - *The Broken Hearts Gallery* (2020), as Marcos - *Battle Scars* (2020), as Vinny - *Flipped* (2020), series, Actor - *Lady and the Tramp* (2019), as Joe - *Semper Fi* (2019), as Snowball - *The Informer* (2019), as Gómez - *Alternatino with Arturo Castro* (2019), series, as Various Characters · Creator - *No Activity* (2017), series, as Miguel - *Bushwick* (2017), as Jose - *Brand New Old Love* (2017), as Charlie Cates - *Room 104* (2017), series, as Craig - *Snatched* (2017), as Dr. Armando - *Deidra & Laney Rob a Train* (2017), as McMillan - *Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk* (2016), as Marcellino 'Mango' Montoya - *Railway Spine* (2016), as Vinny - *Ace the Case: Manhattan Mystery* (2016), as Juan - *Oh Jerome, No* (2016), as Dan - *Alternatino* (2015), series, as Arturo · Writer, Creator - *Vicky & Jonny* (2015), as Jonny Devitto - *Narcos* (2015), series, as David Rodriguez — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/narcos.md) - *Sun Belt Express* (2015), as Miguel - *Silicon Valley* (2014), series, as Maximo Reyes — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/silicon-valley.md) - *Broad City* (2014), series, as Jaime Castro — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/broad-city.md) - *Visitors* (2013), as Featured Human - *Heaven Is Waiting* (2010), as Driver - *Before I Self Destruct* (2009), as Fernando - *The Good Wife* (2009), series, as Dishwasher Juan — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-wife.md) - *Archer* (2009), series, as El Cambiante (voice) - *Lovebug* (2009), as Dennis 492 - *American Dad!* (2005), series, as Columbian Villager (voice) - *Family Guy* (1999), series, as (voice) — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/family-guy.md) - *El Tigre*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Arturo Castro](https://film.one/media/person/7905/gallery-bd4428618a73.jpg) Arturo Castro — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Arturo_Castro_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Arturo_Castro_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Arturo Castro](https://film.one/media/person/7905/gallery-37e8b5c5ab95.jpg) Arturo Castro — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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