Brontis Jodorowsky

Born in Mexico in 1962, Brontis Jodorowsky began his acting career at the age of 7, in "El Topo", directed by his father Alejandro Jodorowsky. After participating in his father's "The Holy Mountain" and in José Antonio Alcaraz episode of "Pubertinaje", he was awarded the Mexican Diosa de Plata Best Child Actor Prize in 1974, for his performance in José Luis Alcoriza's film "El Muro del Silencio". After moving to France in 1979, he continued to act on stage (with such directors as Ariane Mnouchkine, Irina Brook, Jorge Lavelli, Simon Abkarian, Bernard Sobel, Lukas Hemleb, Jean Liermier, Paul Golub, Laurent Laffargue), as well as feature films and television, while also beginning to focus on opera stage direction ("Pelleas et Mélisande" by Debussy in 2009, "Rigoletto" by Verdi in 2011, and "Carmen" by Bizet in 2012). In 2011, he starred in Mexican director Daniel Castro Zimbrón's "Tau", and in Alejandro Jodorowsky's "The Dance of Reality", which premiered at the Cannes Directors Fortni