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- Birthday: 1962-10-27
- Born Place: Chile
Brontis Jodorowsky
Brontis Jodorowsky is a Mexican-French actor, director, and playwright born on October 27, 1962, in Mexico City, and is the son of the legendary cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky. He made his cinematic debut at the age of seven in his father’s surrealist masterpiece El Topo (1970) and was famously trained for two years in martial arts and weaponry to play Paul Atreides in his father’s ambitious, albeit unproduced, adaptation of Dune. Throughout his extensive career, Jodorowsky has balanced work in mainstream international productions, such as his role as Nicolas Flamel in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), with deeply personal collaborations in his father's autobiographical films like The Dance of Reality (2013) and Endless Poetry (2016). A respected figure in European theater, he has directed and performed in numerous plays at the Théâtre du Soleil in Paris and has been nominated for the prestigious Molière Award. In the 2025 historical epic Magellan, directed by Lav Diaz, Jodorowsky portrays Bishop Juan de Fonseca (Bispo Juan de Fonseca), a powerful and politically cunning Spanish prelate who headed the Council of the Indies. His performance captures the bureaucratic and religious authority that both enabled and scrutinized Magellan’s voyage, representing the Spanish Crown's interests and the institutional weight of the Catholic Church.
Person History
Magellan 2025
2025