Marco Pérez

Marco Pérez (born March 17, 1977) is a Mexican actor and writer. He began his artistic career working in experimental theater in Jalisco. After moving to Mexico City he was cast as Ramiro in the film Amores perros directed by Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu in 2000. Pérez has worked extensively on TV series, including Capadocia, El 8° Mandamiento (2011), El Señor de los Cielos (2013), Señora Acero (2014), Caminos de Guanajuato (2015), and the El Señor de los Cielos spin-off El Chema (2016).

Pérez is also featured in several films including Trade (2007), Backyard: El Traspatio (2009), Días de Gracia (2011), Mariachi Gringo (2012), Colosio: El Asesinato (2012), La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas (2012), and Desierto (2015). For his performance of Comandante in the film Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso he received a Diosa de Plata nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He received further recognition for playing record producer Sergio Andrade in the Mexican film Gloria, for which he was nominated for a Diosa de Plata and won the Ariel Award for Best Actor in 2016.

Background Marco Pérez was born in Mexico City on March 17, 1977. At age 14, he began his professional career at an experimental theater in Jalisco, and later relocated to Mexico City to keep working in theater with director Martín Acosta. Pérez wrote the plays Hipótesis del Sueño, El Orgullo del Pajarraco, and El Saxofonista, all based on experiences of his youth.

Career Early work Pérez debuted on screen with the film Amores perros (2000), directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Trade (2007), La Garganta del Diablo (2008), and Backyard: El Traspatio (2008), followed. In 2009, he joined the second season of the TV series Capadocia in the role of Emiliano Treviño. In 2011, Pérez played Mauricio (the private secretary of the Attorney General of Mexico) in the TV series El 8° Mandamiento for Argos TV and also played Gabino in Días de Gracia, directed by Everardo Gout and starring Tenoch Huerta Mejía. Pérez and Huerta re-teamed in 2015 in the film Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso, directed by José Manuel Cravioto. For his role of Comandante in Mexican Gangster, Pérez was nominated for a Diosa de Plata for Best Supporting Actor. La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas, Colosio: El asesinato, and Mariachi Gringo were released in 2012. Pérez was cast as Guadalupe Robles (a role based on real life drug trafficker Ramón Arellano Félix) in the TV series El Señor de los Cielos.

Breakthrough role with Gloria In 2014, Sofia Espinosa and Pérez were cast as singer-songwriter Gloria Trevi and record producer Sergio Andrade, respectively, in the film Gloria. The movie chronicles the rise and fall of the singer's career, detailing Trevi's first encounter with Andrade (who became her mentor), her brief tenure on a band, her musical rise to stardom, a sex scandal involving minors, and her imprisonment in Brasil. "I read the script, then I heard more and more the voice of Gloria [Trevi] herself, without the need to deepen as the scandal that it was, that was the thing I rejected a bit. But I was finding that the story lends itself to also tell a behind-the-scenes, what lies behind a character as stigmatized as [Sergio] Andrade", Pérez told Radio Fórmula. The film was premiered in Mexico on January 1, 2015, as it was distributed by Universal Pictures with 1,000 copies. Sofía Ochoa and Verónica Sánchez of En Filme were critical about the fact that Pérez was "flat", with no further explaining on how Andrade achieved his domain over women, "drawing a caricature of a public figure, [that] not only was complex and imposing, he was talented to some extent, very Machiavellian, ambitious, egotistical, narcissistic and unscrupulous". David Noh of Film Journal International also gave a negative review, since the actor "is too unremittingly slimy and completely lacking in magnetic charisma to be convincing as such an irresistible and titanic A&R lothario". In Mexico, Pérez was nominated for a Diosa de Plata and won the Ariel Award for Best Actor for Gloria.

Later work Pérez played Felipe Murillo during the first season of Telemundo's Señora Acero (2014).

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 2000 Amores perros Ramiro 2005 La Sombra del Sahuaro Carlos 2009 Backyard Fierro 2011 Días de Gracia Gabino 2011 La Brujula La Lleva el Muerto Rogelio 2012 Mariachi Gringo Judicial 2012 Colosio: El Asesinato Juan Antonio Montalbán "El Seco" 2012 La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas Alipio 2014 Gloria Sergio Andrade 2014 Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso(also known as El Más Buscado) Comandante Nominated – Diosa de Plata for Best Supporting Actor 2015 Aerosol Nuk 2015 Desierto Lobo

Television Year Title Role Notes 2010 Capadocia Emiliano Treviño Season 2 2010 Sons of Anarchy Calaveras #1 Season 3 2011 El octavo mandamiento Mauricio Álvarez — 2013 El Señor de los Cielos Guadalupe Robles 43 episodes 2014 Señora Acero Felipe Murillo Season 1 2015 Caminos de Guanajuato Alfredo "Freddy" Calles — 2016 El Chema Guadalupe Robles —