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name: "Francisco Denis"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/francisco-denis"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 April 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T18:49:17.032446+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."
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# Francisco Denis

Actor. Born 24 April 1962 in Caracas Venezuela.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 April 1962, Caracas Venezuela
- **Also known as:** 弗朗西斯科·丹尼士
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Denis, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40648215, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3634819/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1004053

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Narcos*](https://film.one/tv/narcos.md) (76)

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## Biography

Francisco Denis is a Venezuelan actor, director and writer. He trained at the Jacques Lecoq International Theatre School in Paris, graduating in 1994, and founded the theatre company Río Teatro Caribe. He has appeared in around twenty films made in Venezuela.

Denis is known for portraying Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela in the Netflix series *Narcos* (2015–2017). His other television roles include General Miguel Ubarri in *Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan* (2018), Gardera in *The Mallorca Files* (2019) and Victor in *Diary of a Gigolo* (2022). He has also appeared in *The Liberator* (2013) as Simón Rodríguez and *Chilangolandia* (2021) as Sotomayor.

*Sources: imdb.com, elpais.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Narcos* (2015), Fi1m 76, as Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela — [page](https://film.one/tv/narcos.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Juana* (2026), as Fausto
- *Zafari* (2025), as Ana
- *The Initiated: Written from the Shadows* (2024), as Padre Lázaro
- *City of Dreams* (2024), as Rodrigo
- *A restaurant, a mouse, a dead man, a very particular family and a rainy dark night...* (2023), Writer, Director
- *La sombra del Catire* (2023), Acting
- *The Initiated* (2023), as Padre Lazaro
- *Diary of a Gigolo* (2022), series, as Victor
- *DeMonica* (2021), as Father Lopez
- *Chilangolandia* (2021), as Sotomayor
- *The Mallorca Files* (2019), series, as Gardera
- *Interferencia* (2019), Acting
- *Operación Orión* (2018), as Manuel Ramírez
- *Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan* (2018), series, as General Miguel Ubarri
- *KUEKA , cuando las piedras hablan* (2017), Director
- *Abril* (2017), as Hans
- *La última palabra* (2017), Acting
- *Tamara* (2016), Acting
- *Blodimery* (2016), Director, Writer
- *Narcos* (2015), series, as Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/narcos.md)
- *Anchored* (2015), series, as Paco
- *3 Beauties* (2015), as Cosme Otero
- *Ley de fuga* (2014), Acting
- *The Liberator* (2013), as Simón Rodriguez
- *Bolívar: el hombre de las dificultades* (2013), as Montilla
- *The Kid Who Lies* (2011), as El padre
- *De repente, la película* (2011), Acting
- *1, 2 y 3 Mujeres* (2008), Acting
- *Comando X* (2008), Acting
- *The Tigress* (1990), Acting

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