Eligio Meléndez

Biography

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.

Known For

Dreams

Border Hunters

The Dead Girls

Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires

Sex, Shame and Tears 2

The Impostor

El Candidato

Love Hurts

All Movies (51)

• Border Hunters2025 · as Ezekiel
• Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires2025 · as Viejo Guerrero (voice)
• Public Phone2025 · as Gabriel
• Mi Amigo Bernardo2025 · as Abuelo Vicente
• Fuego en el sur2025
• Dreams2025 · as Fernando's Father
• #Rats2024
• *****… (Los Asteriscos…)2024
• Quietud2024
• Underdog2024 · as Aureliano
• Disappear Completely2024 · as Elías Lozano Mata
• The Day Everything Changed2024 · as Fausto (Cantinero)
• The Perfect Tomato2024
• Jefecita2023
• The Great Seduction2023 · as Simón
• Medusa2022 · as Esposo
• Recurring Patients2022 · as Raúl
• More Tomorrow Than Before2022
• Living all of Life2022 · as Leo
• Sex, Shame and Tears 22022 · as Old Man
• Siete en punto2021
• La Civil2021 · as Quique
• New Order2020 · as Rolando
• Tragic Jungle2020 · as Mundo
• This Is Tomas2019 · as Reparador
• Fireflies2018 · as Jorge
• El Día de la Unión2018 · as Achichincle
• I Dream in Another Language2017 · as Evaristo
• Bleak Street2015 · as Dad
• Yerbamala2014 · as Anselmo
• Vultures2014 · as Durán
• Ismael2012 · as Ismael
• The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man2011 · as Adulto
• The Reasons of the Heart2011 · as Lawyer
• Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada2010 · as Ascanio
• One for the Road2010 · as Birthday Girl's Father
• Curandero2005 · as Gomez
• Love Hurts2002 · as Martin
• The Virgin of Lust2002 · as Don Nemesio
• ¿De qué lado estás?2002
• Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You2001 · as Padrastro de Yessica
• The Ruination of Men2000 · as The Guard
• In The Country Where Nothing Happens2000 · as Don Jacinto
• No One Writes to the Colonel1999 · as Sotero
• Reencuentros1997
• The Overturning Of The Heart1996
• Repartidores de muerte1993
• Curvas peligrosas1991
• Perseguida1991
• El Extraordinario Hombre Halcón— · as Don Gustavo
• Desechos— · as Arturo

All TV Shows (8)

• The Dead Girls2025 · as Gedeón Céspedes
• Consuelo2024 · as Carlos Portillo (Padre)
• El colapso2023 · as Román
• Cecilia2021
• El Candidato2020 · as Julio de Velasco
• Guardia García2018 · as Rodolfo Silva
• An Unknown Enemy2018 · as Fidel Velázquez
• The Impostor2014 · as Padre Camilo Fernández