Since the age of 6 Bruno Bichir has been working as an actor in television, theater and film. His entire family is dedicated to the theater, his father is a director and his mother is an actress. In 1986 he studied to become film director in the CCC. In 2001 his production Crónica de un Desayuno (A Breakfast Chronicle) won the Caligari award for Best Avangarde Film in the Berlinale. In 2002 he became the artistic director of the Foro Shakespeare, one of the most respected and visionary independent theaters in Mexico. He was the leader of TriFoPA (Triangular Forum For Performing Arts).
He is best known for his work in the films Frida, Under Fire, Rojo Amanecer (Red Dawn), Highway Patrolman, Principio y Fin (Beginning And The End), Extranos, Castidad and Portion 71. Stage credits include M. Butterfly, Rita, Julia, Enemigo De Clase (Enemy Class), Mary Stuart, Extras (Stones in His Pockets), Cabaret, Closer, and Nadando Con Triburones (Swimming with Sharks), which he also directed.
He has won numerous awards from the Mexican Theater Critics Association – starting in 1980, when he won Best Child Actor for Oh Wilderness, and five more awards over the course of his career. He has also won numerous APT (Mexican Press Awards). He has been nominated for seven Mexican Academy Awards, and won for Best Actor in 1993 for his work in the film Principio y Fin.
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