Eligio Meléndez
Acting • Born 1950-06-20
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.
Filmography
58 credits
Sex, Shame and Tears 2
Movie • 2022
Old Man
Disappear Completely
Movie • 2024
Elías Lozano Mata
The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man
Movie • 2011
Adulto
The Great Seduction
Movie • 2023
Simón
More Tomorrow Than Before
Movie • 2022
Recurring Patients
Movie • 2022
Raúl
#Rats
Movie • 2024
*****… (Los Asteriscos…)
Movie • 2024
Vultures
Movie • 2014
Love Hurts
Movie • 2002
Martin
The Ruination of Men
Movie • 2000
The Guard
Medusa
Movie • 2022
Esposo
The Reasons of the Heart
Movie • 2011
Lawyer
Ismael
Movie • 2012
Ismael
The Day Everything Changed
Movie • 2024
Fausto (Cantinero)
No One Writes to the Colonel
Movie • 1999
Sotero
Curvas peligrosas
Movie • 1991
Repartidores de muerte
Movie • 1993
Reencuentros
Movie • 1997
¿De qué lado estás?
Movie • 2002
The Virgin of Lust
Movie • 2002
Don Nemesio
One for the Road
Movie • 2010
Birthday Girl's Father
Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada
Movie • 2010
Ascanio
Siete en punto
Movie • 2021
Living all of Life
Movie • 2022
Leo
Jefecita
Movie • 2023
El Extraordinario Hombre Halcón
Movie
Don Gustavo
Bleak Street
Movie • 2015
Dad
In The Country Where Nothing Happens
Movie • 2000
Don Jacinto
Underdog
Movie • 2024
Aureliano
Perseguida
Movie • 1991
I Dream in Another Language
Movie • 2017
Evaristo
Fireflies
Movie • 2018
Jorge
Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You
Movie • 2001
Padrastro de Yessica
El Día de la Unión
Movie • 2018
Achichincle
Tragic Jungle
Movie • 2020
Mundo
Yerbamala
Movie • 2014
Anselmo
The Overturning Of The Heart
Movie • 1996
New Order
Movie • 2020
Rolando
Curandero
Movie • 2005
Gomez
La Civil
Movie • 2021
Quique
Quietud
Movie • 2024
This Is Tomas
Movie • 2019
Reparador
Dreams
Movie • 2025
Fernando's Father
Border Hunters
Movie • 2025
Ezekiel
The Perfect Tomato
Movie • 2024
Desechos
Movie
Arturo
Public Phone
Movie • 2025
Gabriel
Mi Amigo Bernardo
Movie • 2025
Abuelo Vicente
Fuego en el sur
Movie • 2025
Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires
Movie • 2025
Viejo Guerrero (voice)
Guardia García
TV • 2018
Rodolfo Silva
The Impostor
TV • 2014
Padre Camilo Fernández
El Candidato
TV • 2020
Julio de Velasco
El colapso
TV • 2023
Román
An Unknown Enemy
TV • 2018
Fidel Velázquez
Cecilia
TV • 2021
The Dead Girls
TV • 2025
Gedeón Céspedes