--- name: "Daniel Giménez Cacho" canonical: "https://film.one/person/daniel-gimenez-cacho" fi1m_id: "daniel-gimenez-cacho" imdb_id: "nm0319843" tmdb_id: 1603 wikidata_id: "Q1160853" roles: ["Actor"] born: "15 May 1961" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 80 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-27T08:08:18.243306+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." --- # Daniel Giménez Cacho ## Identity Daniel Giménez Cacho - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/daniel-gimenez-cacho - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** daniel-gimenez-cacho - **IMDb ID:** nm0319843 - **TMDB ID:** 1603 - **Wikidata ID:** Q1160853 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gim%C3%A9nez_Cacho, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1160853, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319843/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1603 Actor. Born 15 May 1961 in Madrid, Spain. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 15 May 1961, Madrid, Spain - **Active:** 1988–2012 - **Also known as:** Daniel Jiménez Cacho - **Frequently works with:** [Alfonso Cuarón](https://film.one/person/alfonso-cuaron.md), [Carlos Cuarón](https://film.one/person/carlos-cuaron.md), [Maribel Verdú](https://film.one/person/maribel-verdu.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 72 (1), 2000s 87 (1), 2010s 81 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 80 to 77 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 3 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 2, Comedy 1, Fantasy 1 - **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $34m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gim%C3%A9nez_Cacho, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1160853, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319843/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1603 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Blancanieves*](https://film.one/film/blancanieves.md) (81) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Daniel Giménez Cacho > A leading man who never asks to be liked and a narrator who never raises his voice. Daniel Giménez Cacho's best work is with Alfonso Cuarón, where his dryness does the film's correcting for it, and most of the time it holds. There is a moment early in *Sólo con tu pareja* (1992) when Tomás Tomás, advertising copywriter, has a nurse in one flat and his boss in another on the same night, and the only way between them is the ledge. Most actors would play the ledge for panic. Daniel Giménez Cacho plays it as an inconvenience. He gives Tomás the charm of a man who has never needed to be anything else, and then lets that charm run down in front of us without once asking to be liked. That refusal to court us is the thing he does that other leading men do not. He trained in theatre in Mexico City and came up through Mexican television before the film work began in the late 1980s. Cuarón's first film made him a lead; Guillermo del Toro's *Cronos* (1993) followed, and later Pedro Almodóvar's *Bad Education* (2004) and Alejandro González Iñárritu's *Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths* (2022), where he plays the lead. We have not reviewed those and will not pretend to have weighed them. What we can vouch for is the pair with Cuarón, and they show the two sides of him plainly. The second side is the voice. In *Y Tu Mamá También* (2001) he never appears; he narrates, flat and dry, cutting into the boys' road trip to widen the film until it takes in Mexico's economic divisions. The delivery is the point: he will not sound impressed by the adventure, so we cannot be either. We were grateful for that voice and, more than once, mildly irritated by it in the same minute, because the flatness that checks the boys is also what makes a few of those passages sound like a lesson pinned to a scene that already had enough going on. That is a fault of where Cuarón and Alex Rodríguez placed the interruptions rather than of how he read them, but he is the one we hear. So he is an actor who lets a character be unattractive and a narrator who declines to be warm, and Cuarón is the director who has known what to do with both. Profiles report that collaborators find almost nothing to fault in him, which is not a sentence we have ever fully trusted about anyone, and on two films we are not in a position to argue. Start with Tomás on the ledge. Then put on *Y Tu Mamá También* and listen for the man who is not in it. ## Biography Daniel Giménez Cacho is a Spanish-Mexican actor. Born on 15 May 1961 in Madrid, he moved to Mexico as a child and studied theatre at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He made his film debut in *Camino largo a Tijuana* (1989) and appeared in *Cronos* (1993). He has worked with directors including Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, Jorge Fons and Pedro Almodóvar. His voice is heard as the narrator in *Y tu mamá también* (2001). Other credits include *Bad Education* (2004), *El Infierno* (2010), *Blancanieves* (2012) and *Memoria* (2021). Giménez Cacho has received multiple Ariel Awards, including for *Cronos*, *Profundo Carmesí* (1996), *Aro Tolbukhin* (2002), *Nicotina* (2003), *Colosio: el asesinato* (2012) and *Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades* (2022). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Blancanieves* (2012), Fi1m 81, as Antonio Villalta — [page](https://film.one/film/blancanieves.md) - *Y Tu Mamá También* (2001), Fi1m 87, as Narrator (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/y-tu-mama-tambien.md) - *Sólo con tu pareja* (1992), Fi1m 72, as Tomás Tomás — [page](https://film.one/film/solo-con-tu-pareja.md) ## Complete filmography (89) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Mexico 86* (2026), as Emilio Azcárraga - *The Wig* (2026), as Lorenzo - *Us* (2026), as Father’s Voice - *Juana* (2026), as Hombre Psiquiatra · Director - *Depeche Mode: M* (2025), as Narrator - *Mollusk* (2025), Actor - *Kill the Jockey* (2024), as Sirena - *Down the Rabbit Hole* (2024), as Gober - *Familia* (2023), as Leo - *BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths* (2022), as Silverio Gama - *Memoria* (2021), as Juan Ospina - *Siberia* (2020), as Doctor - *Devil Between the Legs* (2019), as Cacho - *Chicuarotes* (2019), as Chillamil - *The Raft* (2019), as Santiago Genovés (voice) - *If I Were You* (2018), Actor - *An Unknown Enemy* (2018), series, as Fernando Barrientos - *Here on Earth* (2018), series, as Mario Rocha - *The Eternal Feminine* (2017), as Ricardo Guerra - *Tales of Mexico* (2017), Director - *Zama* (2017), as Don Diego de Zama - *Light Years* (2017), Actor - *The Summit* (2017), as Sebastian Sastre / Mexican President - *The Promise* (2016), as Reverend Dikran Antreassian - *El Jeremías* (2016), as Dr. Federico Forni - *The Chosen* (2016), as Narrator (voice) - *You're Killing Me Susana* (2016), as Editor - *A Monster with a Thousand Heads* (2016), as Nicolas Pietro - *Leaf Blower* (2015), Actor - *Club de Cuervos* (2015), series, as Félix - *She's Ramona* (2015), as Licenciado del Valle - *Crónica de castas* (2014), series, as Octavio · Director, Executive Producer - *El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza* (2012), as Santos (voice) - *Los Rollos Perdidos* (2012), Actor - *Come Out and Play* (2012), as The Man - *Blancanieves* (2012), as Antonio Villalta — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/blancanieves.md) - *Colosio* (2012), as El Doctor - *Get the Gringo* (2012), as Javi - *The Painting Lesson* (2012), as Aguiar - *We Are What We Are* (2010), as Tito - *Gritos D Muerte y Libertad* (2010), as Agustín de Iturbide - *El Infierno* (2010), as Capitán Ramírez - *Gritos de Muerte y Libertad* (2010), series, as Agustín de Iturbide - *File of Attempted Murder* (2010), as Federico Gamboa - *Love on a Weekend* (2010), as Luis - *I'm Gonna Explode* (2008), as Dip. Eugenio Valdez - *Tear This Heart Out* (2008), as Andres Ascencio - *Born Without* (2008), Actor - *The Black Pimpernel* (2007), as Ricardo Fuentes - *The Zone* (2007), as Daniel - *The Tell-Tale Heart* (2007), as Narrator - *Celia's Lives* (2006), as Agustín - *Innocent Voices* (2005), as Priest - *Santo Against The Clones* (2004), series, as Dr. Clon - *The Art of Losing* (2004), as Víctor Silanpa - *Bad Education* (2004), as Padre Manolo - *Nicotina* (2003), as Beto - *Aro Tolbukhin in the Mind of a Killer* (2002), as Adult Aro - *I Murder Seriously* (2002), as Onofre - *The Virgin of Lust* (2002), as Toledano - *God Is on Air* (2002), as Bigardo - *Life Kills* (2002), as Hugo - *No Shame* (2001), as Mario - *Y Tu Mamá También* (2001), as Narrator (voice) — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/y-tu-mama-tambien.md) - *Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También'* (2001), as Narrator - *The Prince of the Pacific* (2000), as Second - *Jealousy* (1999), as Antonio - *No One Writes to the Colonel* (1999), as Nogales - *Goodbye Mom* (1997), as Norman - *Sweet Release* (1997), as Radio (Voz) - *Deep Crimson* (1996), as Nicolas Estrella - *On the Air* (1995), as Alberto - *Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead* (1995), as Oswaldo - *Midaq Alley* (1995), as José Luis - *Amber* (1994), as Bufón - *Cronos* (1993), as Tito - *In The MIddle of Nowhere* (1993), Actor - *Sólo con tu pareja* (1992), as Tomás Tomás — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/solo-con-tu-pareja.md) - *La dedicatoria* (1992), Actor - *Lost Objects* (1992), as Juan Isunza - *Cabeza de Vaca* (1991), as Dorantes - *Camino largo a Tijuana* (1991), as Tubo - *Con el amor no se juega* (1991), Actor - *Teresa* (1989), series, as Héctor de la Barrera - *Violence in Cold Blood* (1989), Actor - *The Marked Hour* (1988), series, as (Varios) - *Herencia maldita* (1987), Actor - *La muerte es un lugar solitario*, Actor - *Lupe*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Daniel Giménez Cacho](https://film.one/media/person/97341/gallery-15cb28682d57.jpg) Daniel Giménez Cacho — En Materia de Pescado, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/En_locacion_Materia_de_pescado_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Fotografía de Marco Rascón y Daniel Giménez Cacho durante la grabación del capítulo 13 de la serie En Materia de Pescado. Se encuentran en el canal de Cuemanco (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/97341/gallery-59f3cb2ae390.jpg) Fotografía de Marco Rascón y Daniel Giménez Cacho durante la grabación del capítulo 13 de la serie En Materia de Pescado. Se encuentran en el canal de Cuemanco (2011) — En Materia de Pescado, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Cuemanco.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Fotografía durante la grabación del capítulo 13 de la serie de televisión mexicana En Materia de Pescado. se trata de la cocina del Chef Humberto Fregoni. En la (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/97341/gallery-c7dbe5e72b7c.jpg) Fotografía durante la grabación del capítulo 13 de la serie de televisión mexicana En Materia de Pescado. se trata de la cocina del Chef Humberto Fregoni. En la (2011) — En Materia de Pescado, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/En_cocina.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Fotografía en locación de Daniel Giménez Cacho y Marco Rascón durante la grabación del tercer capítulo de la temporada. se encuentran frente al puesto "Tacos la (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/97341/gallery-e61ecc44a507.jpg) Fotografía en locación de Daniel Giménez Cacho y Marco Rascón durante la grabación del tercer capítulo de la temporada. se encuentran frente al puesto "Tacos la (2011) — En Materia de Pescado, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/En_locacion_Materia_de_pescado.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Daniel Giménez Cacho](https://film.one/media/person/97341/gallery-66825cd4b76f.jpg) Daniel Giménez Cacho — Image via TMDB - ![Daniel Giménez Cacho](https://film.one/media/person/97341/gallery-951d057de2c7.jpg) Daniel Giménez Cacho — Image via TMDB - ![Daniel Giménez Cacho](https://film.one/media/person/97341/gallery-58b97086b828.jpg) Daniel Giménez Cacho — Image via TMDB - ![Miércoles 7 de noviembre de 2018 Previo a la entrega de los Premios Fénix 2018, actores, actrices, elencos de las películas y series nominadas, pasaron por la a](https://film.one/media/person/97341/gallery-2e382559a887.jpg) Miércoles 7 de noviembre de 2018 Previo a la entrega de los Premios Fénix 2018, actores, actrices, elencos de las películas y series nominadas, pasaron por la a — Secretaría de Cultura Ciudad de México, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/MX_MM_PREMIOS_F%C3%89NIX_ALFOMBRA_ROJA.jpg/1280px-MX_MM_PREMIOS_F%C3%89NIX_ALFOMBRA_ROJA.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jueves, 30 de Octubre 2014. 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Primera emision de la entrega del Fenix, Premio iberoamericano de Cine, realizado en el Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, en el pa — Antonio Nava / Secretaria de Cultura, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Marisa_Paredes_y_Daniel_Gim%C3%A9nez_Cacho.jpg/1280px-Marisa_Paredes_y_Daniel_Gim%C3%A9nez_Cacho.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Daniel Giménez Cacho](https://film.one/media/person/97341/gallery-51becff43328.jpg) Daniel Giménez Cacho — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 2 won, 1 nominated - Goya Award for Best Actor 2013: Goya Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *Blancanieves* - Ariel Award for Best Actor 2002: Ariel Award for Best Actor (won) - Ariel Award for Best Actor 1996: Ariel Award for Best Actor (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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