Fernando Bonilla

Mexican actor, director, and playwright. He received his formal education at the Madrid Film Institute in Spain.

He is the founder of the theater company Puño de Tierra, having directed more than twenty productions. Notable among them are “Almacenados”; “A ocho columnas”, winner of the ACPT Award for Best Play of the Year (2018); ‘Los Ingrávidos’; “Algo en Fuenteovejuna”, winner of the ACPT Award for Best Adaptation of a Classic (2018); and “Mercan”, produced in collaboration with the Cervantino Festival.

As an actor, he has appeared in productions such as “3 Days in May”, “A Beast in My Garden” and “Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman”; he has also presented his work at events such as the Cervantino Festival, the National Theater Festival, the Manizales Theater Festival, the Night of the Theater Artists (Madrid), the Sleepless Night Festival (Miami), the Young Theater Festival (Buenos Aires), and the Ibero-American Festival (Bogotá). He has also written nearly a dozen plays, including “Another Sea”, “Masiosare” and “El Corrido del Rey Lear”, nominated for the Metro Awards in the Best Play category (2023).

In film, he has appeared in titles such as “Estanislao” (Dir. Alejandro Guzmán Álvarez); “Perdidos en la noche” (Dir. Amat Escalante), presented at the 76th Cannes Film Festival; “Better a Widow Than in Bad Company” (Dir. Magaby García); and “El Norte sobre el Vacío” (Dir. Alejandra Márquez Abella), a film that earned him an Ariel Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category (2023).

On television, he has appeared in projects such as “Narcos: Mexico” (Netflix), “A Strange Enemy”, “Harina” (Prime Video), “High Tide” (ViX), “She Walks Alone” (ViX), “¿Quién lo Mató?” (Prime Video), and “Technoboys” (Netflix). She also appears in ‘LOL: Last One Laughing,’ a Prime Video reality show produced by Eugenio Derbez, in which he won the seventh season.

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