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Eligio Meléndez
ActorBorn June 20, 1950 (74 years)
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
Filmography
| 2024 | Correr para Vivir · as Aureliano |
| 2024 | Consuelo (TV Series) · as Papá De Carlos Julio |
| 2024 | The Day Everything Changed · as Fausto (cantinero) |
| 2023 | The Great Seduction · as Simón |
| 2023 | Las Pelotaris 1926 (TV Series) · as Pascual |
| 2023 | The Collapse (2023) (TV Series) · as Román |
| 2022 | Disappear Completely · as Elías Lozano Mata |
| 2022 | Belascoarán, PI (TV Series) · as Javier Cuesta |
| 2022 | Lotería Del Crimen (TV Series) · as Padre Tomás |
| 2022 | Medusa · as Esposo |
| 2022 | Sex, Shame and Tears 2 · as Old Man |
| 2021 | Cecilia (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2021 | La civil · as Quique |
| 2021 | The Cleaning Lady (MX) (TV Series) · as Don Samuel |
| 2020 | New Order · as Rolando |
| 2020 | Tragic Jungle · as Mundo |
| 2020 | El Candidato (TV Series) · as Julio De Velasco |
| 2020 | Dark Desire (TV Series) · as El Padrino |
| 2019 | This Is Tomas · as Reparador |
| 2018 | Guardia-García (TV Series) · as Rodolfo Silva |
| 2018 | Fireflies · as Jorge |
| 2018 | An Unknown Enemy (TV Series) · as Fidel Velazquez |
| 2018 | Selena's Secret (TV Series) · as Trinidad Espinosa |
| 2018 | El día de la unión · as Achichincle |
| 2017 | I Dream in Another Language · as Evaristo |
| 2017 | Ingobernable (TV Series) · as Arzobispo Miguel |
| 2016 | Un día cualquiera (TV Series) · as Bernardo |
| 2016 | Until I Met You (TV Series) · as Comandante |
| 2015 | Bleak Street · as Dad |
| 2014 | Dos Lunas (TV Series) · as Mario Jiménez |
| 2014 | The Impostor (TV Series) · as Padre Camilo Fernández |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | El Señor de los Cielos (TV Series) · as Sabino Villalobos |
| 2011 | The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man · as Adulto |
| 2011 | The Reasons of the Heart · as Lawyer |
| 2010 | Hidalgo. La historia jamás contada · as Ascanio |
| 2009 | One for the Road · as Birthday Girl's Father |
| 2008 | Secretos del Alma (TV Series) · as Ascanio |
| 2008 | Capadocia (TV Series) · as Padre De Colombiana |
| 2005 | Lo que la gente cuenta (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2005 | Curandero · as Gomez |
| 2003 | Thief of Hearts (TV Series) · as Pisis |
| 2002 | Amar te duele · as Martin |
| 2002 | The Virgin of Lust · as Don Nemesio |
| 2002 | |
| 2001 | Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You · as Padrastro De Yessica |
| 2000 | The Ruination of Men · as The Guard |
| 2000 | En el país de no pasa nada · as Don Jacinto |
| 1999 | No One Writes to the Colonel · as Sotero |
| 1996 | |
| 1993 | Ya la hicimos · as Oficial De Grua |
| 1991 | |
| 1991 |