Eligio Meléndez
Eligio Meléndez is a Mexican film, theater and television director and actor, born on June 20, 1950, in Mexico City. He studied at the Andrés Soler Acting Institute, with the renowned Luis Gimeno, Carlos Ancira, Miguel Círcega and Soledad Ruíz as teachers. One of the most recognized personalities in theater, the actor has participated in more than 30 works, including The Flower of the Heart, Borges with Music, The Enchanted Mirror, The Old Men, Trufaldino Servant of Two Patrons, Mexican Entremeses, Mexico Pachuco, Soldado Razo, among others. In film, Eligio made his debut in the film Perseguida (1991), and then built an interesting and lucrative career with roles in films such as The Colonel Doesn't Have Anyone Write to Him (1999), In the Country of Nothing Happens (2000), for which that he would receive his first Ariel nomination; Perfume of violets (2001), Amar te duele (2002), Curandero (2005), The last one and we leave (2009), Hidalgo – The untold story (2010), Yerbamala (2014) and Dream in another language (2017) , for which he was nominated, for the second time, for an Ariel award.
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Movies (53)
Helena con H
2026 · Licenciado Altamirano
Desechos
2026 · Arturo
Misión Frontera
2025 · Ezekiel
Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires
2025 · Viejo Guerrero (voice)
Public Phone
2025 · Gabriel
Mi Amigo Bernardo
2025 · Abuelo Vicente
Fuego en el sur
2025
Dreams
2025 · Fernando's Father
#Rats
2024
*****… (Los Asteriscos…)
2024
Quietud
2024
Underdog
2024 · Aureliano
Disappear Completely
2024 · Elías Lozano Mata
The Day Everything Changed
2024 · Fausto (Cantinero)
The Perfect Tomato
2024
Jefecita
2023
The Great Seduction
2023 · Simón
Medusa
2022 · Esposo
Recurring Patients
2022 · Raúl
More Tomorrow Than Before
2022
Living all of Life
2022 · Leo
Sex, Shame and Tears 2
2022 · Old Man
Siete en punto
2021
La Civil
2021 · Quique
New Order
2020 · Rolando
Tragic Jungle
2020 · Mundo
This Is Tomas
2019 · Reparador
Fireflies
2018 · Jorge
El Día de la Unión
2018 · Achichincle
I Dream in Another Language
2017 · Evaristo
Bleak Street
2015 · Dad
Yerbamala
2014 · Anselmo
Vultures
2014 · Durán
Ismael
2012 · Ismael
The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man
2011 · Adulto
The Reasons of the Heart
2011 · Lawyer
Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada
2010 · Ascanio
One for the Road
2010 · Birthday Girl's Father
Curandero
2005 · Gomez
Love Hurts
2002 · Martin
The Virgin of Lust
2002 · Don Nemesio
¿De qué lado estás?
2002
Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You
2001 · Padrastro de Yessica
The Ruination of Men
2000 · The Guard
In The Country Where Nothing Happens
2000 · Don Jacinto
No One Writes to the Colonel
1999 · Sotero
Reencuentros
1997
The Overturning Of The Heart
1996
Repartidores de muerte
1993
Curvas peligrosas
1991
Perseguida
1991
El Extraordinario Hombre Halcón
· Don Gustavo
The Language Of Birds
· Jacinto
