Tenoch Huerta

Tenoch Huerta
Huerta in 2018
Born	Tenoch Huerta Mejía (1981-01-29) 29 January 1981 (age 40) Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality	Mexico
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2006–present
Notable work	El más buscado

Tenoch Huerta Mejía (Spanish: [teˈnotʃ ˈweɾta]; born 29 January 1981)^[1] is a Mexican actor. He has appeared in a number of movies in Latin America and Spain, starring in both feature films and short films. He is one of the actors featured in Mónica Maristain's book 30 Actors Made in Mexico.

Early life[]

Huerta was born in Mexico City, Mexico on 29 January 1981.

Career[]

In 2006, he made his acting career debut in the 2006 film Asi del precipicio as a minor character.

In 2015, he appeared as Carlos Mamami in the biographical disaster survival film The 33 (opposite Antonio Banderas, James Brolin and Juliette Binoche), Alejo in Camino (opposite Zoe Bell, Nacho Vigalondo, Sheila Vand and Kevin Pollak) and as a Mexican man in the lift in the James Bond film Spectre (opposite Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Dave Bautista and Ralph Fiennes).

In 2009, he appeared in Cary Joji Fukunaga's film Sin nombre in the role of Li'l Mago, leader of the Tapachula faction of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang. In 2018, he began portraying Rafael Caro Quintero in Netflix's Narcos: Mexico.

In 2021, he appeared as Juan in The Forever Purge, the fifth film of The Purge franchise, alongside his fellow Narcos: Mexico costar Alejandro Edda, in addition to Ana de la Reguera, Josh Lucas, Cassidy Freeman and Will Patton.

Awards[]

Best Actor at the Short Short Film Festival in Mexico City, for his performance in Alonso Ruiz Palacio's Café paraíso.^[2]

Filmography[]

Film[]

Television[]

References[]

External links[]

• Tenoch Huerta Mejía at IMDb

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