Thomas Ebert

Thomas Ebert was born 1961 in Monterrey, Mexico to German parents. He began stage-acting at the age of 16, and for more than 40 years has acted in many plays, some of them under the leadership of well-known Mexican directors, such as the late Martín Aguirre, Sergio Rod, Juan Carlos Franco, and the Spanish stage-director Héctor Dugó. His film debut came in 1984 with the large American production "Dune" by David Lynch, mainly filmed in Mexico, where he played a minor role. It was followed a few years later by small parts in Paul Verhoeven's "Total Recall", "The Arrival" by David Twohy, the acclaimed film "Frida" by Julie Taymor, and Bruce Beresford's "Pancho Villa - Mexican Outlaw", all of them also filmed in Mexico City and surroundings. From overseas followed a couple of feature-films produced and filmed in Germany (see Thomas Ebert (II) here on IMDb). Shortly thereafter, he was chosen as the main character in the German production "Mexiko" directed by Michael Markus, and entirely sho