Daniel Giménez Cacho García (born May 15, 1961) is a Spanish and Mexican actor. He portrayed Tito the Coroner in Cronos (1993) and We Are What We Are (2010).
Giménez Cacho made his film debut in Camino largo a Tijuana (1989). He appeared in the film Cronos (1993). He had a leading role in the film La zona (2008). In 2010, he reprised the role of Tito in the film We Are What We Are (2010). Also that year, he played Captain Ramírez in Hell.
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Early life
Daniel Giménez Cacho was born on May 15, 1961 in Madrid, as the youngest of the six children of Luis Giménez Cacho and Julia García Casado, two actors who performed in the theatre company La Barraca. In Mexico, his mother also became a noted painter as a disciple of Elvira Gascón. He moved to Mexico as a child and studied theatre at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Career
He starred in several Mexican films and television series, such as Sólo Con Tu Pareja, Cronos, Midaq Alley, Tear This Heart Out and Bad Education. He has worked with several prominent Hispanic filmmakers, including Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, Jorge Fons and Pedro Almodóvar. He appeared in La hora marcada, the series written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro, and in the Mexican telenovela Teresa. His voice is heard throughout Y tu mamá también as the narrator. In 2009, he starred in the Mexican remake for the Argentinian series Locas de Amor. Cacho played the Armenian priest in The Promise, a film set in the Armenian genocide.
Political views
In October 2023, he joined the open letter called "Artists Against Apartheid" during the concurrent escalation of violence in Palestine.
