Name	Gael Garcia
Height
Naionality	Mexican
Date of Birth	30-November-1978
Place of Birth	Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Famous for	Acting

Gael Garcia is a Mexican film actor and director. Garcia Bernal was becoming a soap opera heartthrob, but at age of 19, he left Mexico's television world to study acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, becoming the first person from Mexico to be accepted into the program. In the brief period beforehand, he had begun to study philosophy at UNAM, Mexico's national university, before a strike closed the college and he then left for London.

Describing his time in London as 'life forming', he considered acting merely an odd job profession until the Mexican director Alejandro González Inarritu offered him a part in Amores Perros. Subsequently, Garcia Bernal starred in some of Mexico's most celebrated recent films, including 2001's Y tu mama tambien, and El crimen del Padre Amaro (2002). He has also done some theatre work, including a 2005 production of Bodas de Sangre, by Federico Garcia Lorca, in the Almeida Theatre in London. His debut as a working-class dreamer in the Oscar-nominated Amores Perros, however, was what first grabbed Hollywood's attention.