Eligio Meléndez

Known for ActingBorn 1950-06-20 (age 76)Mexico

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Perfect Tomato

Living all of Life

Underdog

Consuelo

An Unknown Enemy

Love Hurts

La Civil

I Dream in Another Language

Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You

Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires

Cecilia

El colapso

The Day Everything Changed

The Dead Girls

The Impostor

Disappear Completely

El Candidato

The Great Seduction

Sex, Shame and Tears 2

One for the Road

This Is Tomas

The Virgin of Lust

El Día de la Unión

New Order

Border Hunters

In The Country Where Nothing Happens

Dreams

Tragic Jungle

Bleak Street

#Rats

Medusa

Fireflies

The Ruination of Men

The Reasons of the Heart

¿De qué lado estás?

Reencuentros

Curandero

No One Writes to the Colonel

The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man

Curvas peligrosas

Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada

The Overturning Of The Heart

Vultures

Yerbamala

Repartidores de muerte

Perseguida

Recurring Patients

Guardia García