Emilio Echevarría, the standout Mexican actor who starred as the hitman known as El Chivo (The Goat) in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Amores Perros, has died. He was 80.
Echevarría died Saturday, the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences announced. No other details of his death were immediately available.
The three-time Ariel Award nominee appeared in two other recent classics of Mexican cinema: Y tu mamá también (2001), the coming-of-age road film directed and co-written by Alfonso Cuarón, and Iñárritu’s complex Babel (2006), which was nominated for the best picture Oscar.
Echevarría also had turns as the enigmatic British agent Raoul, who doubles as the manager of a Havana cigar factory, in the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002), and as Mexican president Antonio López de Santa Anna in John Lee Hancock’s The Alamo (2004).
In the psychological drama Amores Perros (2000), which marked Iñárritu’s feature directorial debut, Echevarría stood out as El Chivo,...
Echevarría died Saturday, the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences announced. No other details of his death were immediately available.
The three-time Ariel Award nominee appeared in two other recent classics of Mexican cinema: Y tu mamá también (2001), the coming-of-age road film directed and co-written by Alfonso Cuarón, and Iñárritu’s complex Babel (2006), which was nominated for the best picture Oscar.
Echevarría also had turns as the enigmatic British agent Raoul, who doubles as the manager of a Havana cigar factory, in the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002), and as Mexican president Antonio López de Santa Anna in John Lee Hancock’s The Alamo (2004).
In the psychological drama Amores Perros (2000), which marked Iñárritu’s feature directorial debut, Echevarría stood out as El Chivo,...
- 1/6/2025
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Emilio Echevarría, the Mexican actor best known for his roles in films like Y Tu Mamá También and Babel, has died. His death was announced by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, which hailed his "enormous career in film and theater" in a post on social media. Echevarría...
- 1/6/2025
- by Emma Keates
- avclub.com
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