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Father of Lourdes Echevarría

He received three Ariel nominations for his role as a supporting actor in Morir en el Golfo (Alejandro Pelayo, 1990), Un monstruo de mil cabezas (Rodrigo Plá, 2016) and El elegido (Antonio Chavarrías, 2018).".

Echevarría began his acting career in 1978 as a member of the Constitution of Art and Society. He was also part of the theater group Circo, Maroma y Teatro, an institution that would open its doors to him.

On the international level he is perhaps best known for appearing in films competing for the Oscars such as: Amores perros in 2000 (nominated for best foreign film) co-starring with Gael García Bernal and Goya Toledo , in 2001 in Y tu mamá también (nominated for best original screenplay) with Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna and in 2006 in Babel (nominated for best film), in all these films he was directed by Mexican directors who won the Oscar for best director Alejandro González Iñárritu and Alfonso Cuarón .

He has also had small parts in two international productions, first as Raoul, a Cuban agent in the James Bond film Die Another Day and then as Antonio López de Santa Anna in The Alamo.

He attended acting classes with the teacher José Luis Ibáñez. This led to his participation in more than 15 plays under the direction of prestigious directors.

Echevarría began his extensive career as an actor in 1978, as an active member of the Constitution of Art and Society with which he acted in various theater works, although his first opportunity in cinema came six years later.

He had the opportunity to play Venustiano Carranza in "El Encanto del Águila" , a Televisa production , directed by Gerardo Tort and Mafer Suárez in 2011. Emilio Echevarría's portrayal of Venustiano Carranza was one of the highlights of this series. In it, he brought depth to the character of Carranza and showed him as a firm and strategic revolutionary leader , but also as a man faced with ethical and political dilemmas in the most relevant years of the Mexican Revolution .

Emilio Echevarría studied a degree in accounting at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, worked at the media company Televisa and at the age of 32 he began his acting career.

Emilio Echevarría was a Mexican actor. He appeared in Amores Perros as the hitman and ex-guerrilla nicknamed "El Chivo" (The Goat), and Y tu mamá también, which also co-starred Gael García Bernal.

In keeping with the Spanish naming tradition, Echevarría is his paternal last name while Noriega is his maternal last name, so he should get listed under Echevarría.