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Luis Gerardo Méndez is a film and theater actor who was born in Aguascalientes, Mexico, on March 12, 1982. From a very young age he showed interest in acting; However, it was not until 2003 when he debuted on television playing a supporting role in Ladrón de corazón . His first appearance on the big screen was with the film Santos Peregrinos (2004) and in 2006 he participated in two other films, The Girl in the Stone and Side Effects . That same year he made his theater debut playing Colate in the successful play Hoy no me puede rise (2006). In the following years her career continued to advance and more roles arrived in which she would stand out, including Lola, once upon a time ( 2007), the play Avenida Q (2008) and the film The Other Family (2011), but it was in 2013. when he consolidated himself with the character of Javi Noble in the film Nos los nobles. Luis Gerardo demonstrated his enormous talent in the stagings of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2013) and Hotel Good Luck (2015), in addition to standing out in Manolo Caro’s films I Don’t Know Whether to Cut My Veins or Leave Them Long (2013). and Elvira, I would give you my life but I am using it . After one of the most successful years in his career, Méndez was signed to appear in Cantinflas (2014), a biopic of the Mexican comedy legend. He recently added one more success to his career with the Netflix series, Club de Cuervos (2015-2017), in which he plays the spoiled and rude Chava Iglesias. In addition to shining in cinema and television, Luis Gerardo Méndez starred in the play Privacy alongside actor Diego Luna. In 2019, Luis Gerardo ventured into Hollywood as a producer and also starred in Adam Sandler’s Netflix original film, Mystery on Board .
