---
name: "Gerardo Taracena"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gerardo-taracena"
fi1m_id: "gerardo-taracena"
imdb_id: "nm0850162"
tmdb_id: 17689
wikidata_id: "Q5550311"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1970"
died: "31 January 2026"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 52
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-24T22:56:17.713422+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."
---

# Gerardo Taracena

## Identity

Gerardo Taracena

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gerardo-taracena
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gerardo-taracena
- **IMDb ID:** nm0850162
- **TMDB ID:** 17689
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5550311
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardo_Taracena, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5550311, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0850162/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17689

Actor. Born 1 January 1970 in Mexico City, Mexico. Died 31 January 2026.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1970, Mexico City, Mexico
- **Died:** 31 January 2026
- **Active:** 2001–2023
- **Average Fi1m score:** 52, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 56 (1), 2020s 47 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardo_Taracena, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5550311, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0850162/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17689

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Sound of Freedom*](https://film.one/film/sound-of-freedom.md) (47)

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## Biography

Gerardo Taracena (27 March 1970 – 31 January 2026) was a Mexican actor and dancer. He was born in Mexico City and studied dramatic arts at the University Center of Theater of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He performed in theatre and dance festivals across Latin America from the early 1990s and appeared in more than thirty stage works.

Taracena's film roles include Middle Eye in *Apocalypto* (2006), an executive adjutant in *Man on Fire* (2004), Horacio in *Sin Nombre* (2009) and El Alacrán in *Sound of Freedom* (2023). He played Pablo Acosta in the Netflix series *Narcos: Mexico* (2018) and appeared in *The Mexican* (2001) and *Get the Gringo* (2012). He received a Silver Ariel Award for best supporting actor for *The Violin* (2005) and an Imagen Award for *Apocalypto*.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Sound of Freedom* (2023), Fi1m 47, as El Alacrán — [page](https://film.one/film/sound-of-freedom.md)
- *The Mexican* (2001), Fi1m 56, as Reveler to Fire Gun — [page](https://film.one/film/the-mexican.md)

## Complete filmography (78)

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

- *Falcons* (2026), as Buitre
- *Unburied* (2025), series, as Raúl
- *Camino a Arcadia* (2025), series, as Sebastián Vidal
- *Cóyotl, Hero and Beast* (2025), series, as El Tule
- *Prison Cell 211* (2025), series, as Cándara
- *Quite Like Paradise* (2024), as Justino Nava
- *From Inside* (2023), as Juan Infante
- *Sobreviviendo mis XV* (2023), as Melchor
- *Héroes* (2023), as Capitán Alvarado
- *Sound of Freedom* (2023), as El Alacrán — Fi1m 47, [page](https://film.one/film/sound-of-freedom.md)
- *Chupa* (2023), as Police Officer
- *Presencias* (2022), as Don Jaime
- *Pedal to Metal* (2022), series, as Abel
- *Harina* (2022), series, as Teniente Ramos
- *For Old Times' Sake* (2022), as Luciano
- *El Candidato* (2020), series, as El Cocodrilo
- *Influence* (2019), Actor
- *The Marquez-Castillo Siblings* (2019), as Líder Rebeldes
- *Narcos: Mexico* (2018), series, as Pablo Acosta
- *El Día de la Unión* (2018), as Rescatista 1
- *Tres milagros* (2018), series, as Julián Cruz
- *At the Frontera* (2018), as Eduardo Manrique
- *Las amantes del narco II* (2018), as Don Chava
- *Tratante de blancas* (2018), as Reportero
- *Waiting For Gordo* (2018), Actor
- *La hora de Salvador Romero* (2017), as Teodoro
- *Snail House* (2017), as Hombre
- *Zhai* (2017), as Cesar
- *El vecindario 3* (2016), as Ajolote
- *Perseguidos* (2016), series, as Gustavo 'Tavo' Benítez
- *La Niña De La Mina* (2016), as Carlos
- *Queen of the South* (2016), series, as Cesar “Batman” Guemes
- *Don't Blame the Kid* (2016), as Plutarco
- *40 y 20* (2016), series, as Macedonio
- *The Load* (2016), as Itzmin
- *Number Eighty* (2016), Actor
- *Boys on Film 14: Worlds Collide* (2016), as Juan / Raúl's Father (segment "A World For Raúl")
- *Mexican Gangster* (2014), as Raymundo
- *Ramona* (2014), as Carmelo
- *Die Legende der Maske* (2014), as Bo
- *A Shred Of Mist* (2014), as Perito
- *Familia Gang* (2014), Actor
- *Princesas de cartón* (2014), as Felipe
- *The children of Don Gregorio* (2013), as Roberto
- *Flying low* (2013), as Chuyin Venegas
- *Para armar un helicóptero* (2013), Actor
- *Deseo* (2013), as Marino
- *Richness of Internal Space* (2013), as Tenso
- *Potosí* (2013), as Javier
- *Tlatelolco, Summer of 68'* (2013), as Militar 1 Tortura
- *Los Kokainos* (2012), as Lic. Quintero
- *The Walls Talk* (2012), as El Ojaiz
- *Come Out and Play* (2012), Actor
- *A World for Raúl* (2012), as Juan / Raúl's Father
- *4 Maras* (2012), Actor
- *Get the Gringo* (2012), as Romero
- *El Buchon* (2012), Actor
- *Niño Santo* (2011), series, as Santiago
- *Saving Private Pérez* (2011), as Carmelo
- *Setback* (2011), as Mario
- *Ladies Mafia* (2011), as Rualas
- *El Infierno* (2010), as Pancho Zopilote
- *Chilango Chronicles* (2010), Actor
- *Sanguinarios del M1* (2010), as Junco Pantoja
- *El último chichiluco* (2009), as Mazatzin
- *Sin Nombre* (2009), as Horacio
- *The Zone* (2007), as Carlos
- *Apocalypto* (2006), as Middle Eye
- *The Violin* (2005), as Genaro
- *Man on Fire* (2004), as Executive Adjutant
- *De ida y vuelta* (2001), Actor
- *Without a Trace* (2001), as Niko
- *The Mexican* (2001), as Reveler to Fire Gun — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/the-mexican.md)
- *A Trickle of Blood* (1995), as Voceador
- *The Daughter of the Puma* (1994), as Mateo Pérez Pérez
- *La Ramona*, Actor
- *Podcast, rapaces nocturnos*, as Fulgencio
- *Lunik 3*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Gerardo Taracena](https://film.one/media/person/644570/gallery-0908b6671709.jpg) Gerardo Taracena — iDominick, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Gerardo_Taracena_at_Queen_of_the_South_at_ATX.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Gerardo Taracena](https://film.one/media/person/644570/gallery-7c45899daee5.jpg) Gerardo Taracena — Image via TMDB

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