Julio Bekhor

Julio Bekhór (born July 30, 1976) is a Mexican actor and artist.

Early life[]

Julio Alejandro Cadena Cárdenas was born in Mexico City on July 30, 1976. At age seven, he began to take acting classes at the school of Silvia Derbez and later at the school of Gonzalo Correa. When he was sixteen, he began acting professionally in the Actores del método studio (Strasberg method) under the tutelage of his teacher René Pereyra. There, he appeared in plays including After Death and Midnight's Summer Dream. A year after these performances, his mother died. He began to live alone and model in television commercials for advertising campaigns of brands such as Coca-Cola, Volkswagen and Sabritas.

Career[]

In 1996, he made his film debut in the movie The Hole by Beto Gómez. He continued with his studies after spending five years with Pereyra and entered the school of Ludwik Margules and M & M Estudio, school of the actress Patricia Reyes Spíndola. These schools taught him to experiment with new acting techniques.

In 1998, he began rehearsals of Les maids by Jean Genet directed by Natalia Traven and produced by Reyes Spíndola. At M & M Studio, he took acting and directing coursework under Arturo Ripstein and Pastor Vega.

In 1999, he began his first television project for Televisa in the telenovela Amigas y Rivales, produced by Emilio Larrosa. Bekhor played the rebellious and cocky Javier for six months. At the same time, he wrote a column for the magazine 15 a 20 under the pseudonym Julio Cadena, and worked as a DJ in bars and for private parties.

He made another pair of telenovelas for Televisa and decided to leave television to focus on film and music. In 2003, he made his American film debut with Broken Lizard's Club Dread (El club del Miedo) directed by Jay Chandrasekar. In the same year, he was selected to participate in the film Sea of Dreams (Mar de sueños), José Bojorquez's debut feature.

After completing this project he moved to Los Angeles, California where he remained for eight years. He prepared at the Ivana Chubbuck Acting Studio under Cubbuck's direction, worked on accent reduction with Bob and Claire Corff among other acting teachers. During this time he filmed the independent film Age of Kali directed by Rafal Zielinski and participated in the making of episodes in the series Dirt and Swingtown.

In 2010, Bekhór returned to Mexico after almost ten years to participate in the Televisa Mujeres Asesina and Que show con Alejandra Bogue series. He later starred in the film Dark Seduction (Oscura Seducción). In 2012 he began filming Casi Treinta, an opera prima by Alejandro Suguich.

In 2013, he starred in the film She is Ramona (Ella es Ramona), directed by Hugo Rodríguez, written by Beto Cohen and produced by Alebrije Cine y Video.

Later in 2013, he began work on his first film as director and producer, entitled Tripping - Thru (El Viaje de Keta), written and produced by Beto Cohen. The film was produced by Santiago Ortiz Monasterio, Claudia del Castillo, and Mónica Lozano. The soundtrack includes new music from Fred Schneider (frontman of The B-52's) and the song Ahora Sé, written and co-produced by Bekhór.

Filmography[]

• El Agujero (1997)
• Popis (2003)
• Club Dread (2004)
• Sea of Dreams (2005)^[1]
• Age of Kali (2006)
• Casi Tr3inta (2014)
• Ella es Ramona (2015)
• 3 Idiotas (2017)
• Loca por el trabajo (2018)
• El Viaje de Keta (2018 Directorial debut)

Art collections and exhibitions[]

Julio Bekhór is a multidisciplinary artist who bases his creative exploration on the careful observation and concern of nature. Bekhór starts experimenting as a plastic artist in 2011, combining different techniques and materials such as oil paint, vinyl records and neon lights. And in November 2014 he sets up his first exhibition in Terreno Baldio gallery titled, What Goes Around Comes Around.

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