Sebastián Aguirre

Sebastián Matías Aguirre Boëda (born 1998) is a Mexican actor. Son of musicians, Aguirre began acting as a child with a screen debut in the short films ¡Volar! and La Canción de los Niños Muertos. His breakthrough performance was as Julián "Sacramento" Santos in Obediencia Perfecta (2014) in which he played a victim of sexual abuse by a priest, earning an Ariel Award for Breakthrough Male Performance. He subsequently appeared in another film, Güeros (2014), for which he also received another Ariel nomination, and the thriller Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas (2015), portraying a teenager helping his mother to convince an insurance company to provide a treatment for her husband. Aguirre also is featured in the films Herederos. La vida inmoral de la pareja ideal (2016), directed by Manolo Caro.

Background Aguirre was born in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1998. His parents are violin players, and since childhood he was exposed to art expressions. At age 8, his mother took him to take courses at CasAzul, a Mexican drama school, and there he decided to become an actor. His favorite films include Trainspotting, La Piel Que Habito and El Castillo de la Pureza and also wants to specialize in film directing.

Career Aguirre debuted on the short-films ¡Volar! and La Canción de los Niños Muertos in 2008. The latter film, about five teenagers who lose their mother, was directed by Mexican filmmaker David Pablos, and won for Best Fiction Short Film at the Morelia International Film Festival and was screened during the Critics' Week of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. This work, earned Pablos the Ariel Award for Best Live Action Short and also the SIGNIS Award during the 4th International Short Film Festival (FICMEX), being the SIGNIS jury's verdict that "the film narrative takes us into the complexity of disparate feelings as violence and tenderness, anger and forgiveness, rebellion and reconciliation."

At age 12, he auditioned for the role of Julián "Sacramento" Santos, a child sexually abused by a priest, on the film Obediencia Perfecta directed by Luis Urquiza. He filmed two years later, and along with the other 30 child actors involved in the film, Aguirre was accompanied at all times by his parents, psychologists, lawyers and a coach (Margarita Mandoki) who worked with the actors many months before filming. Aguirre agreed to participate in the movie, since there was a message to give, and after seeing the completed film stated: "I thought it would be morbid, but every scene was carefully made. What I liked about the film is that you only see what you have to see".

Aguirre's following film was Güeros directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios in the role of Tomás, a teenager sent from Veracruz to Mexico City by his mom to live with his older brother (Tenoch Huerta). About working on the film, Aguirre said it was an experience "with great fraternity; Ilse (Salas), Tenoch (Huerta) and Leonardo (Ortizgris) got along very well and that was reflected in the movie, I had a lot of fun doing it". About this recognition, Aguirre said: "I did not expect it, I am very proud... I can get better things, it is not something that assures me that I will have more work, but it is a gradual advance that makes me proud".

In 2015, Aguirre participated on a rally held at the Guanajuato International Film Festival, where a short film has to be made in 48 hours. The same year he acted on Herederos directed by Jorge Hernández and co-starred with Dario Yazbek on the film Mi Sangre, which was shot on location in Mexico, France and England. He worked in France in the film Los Paisajes (2016) portraying a teenager fleeing from boarding school to meet his brother in Paris and taking a trip to the French countryside, where the fraternal relationship is confronted by a tragic event.

Filmography + Film roles Year Title Roles Notes 2008 ¡Volar! Beto Short film 2008 La canción de los niños muertos Younger son Short film 2010 Contraluz Santiago Short film 2012 Tucán Sebastián Short film 2014 Güeros Tomás 2014 Obediencia perfecta Julián "Sacramento" Santos 2015 A Monster with a Thousand Heads Darío Castrejón Bonet 2015 Los herederos Ruco 2015 Los paisajes Alonso 2016 Siempre contigo Mateo Short film 2016 La vida inmoral de la pareja ideal Lucio 17 Years Old 2017 Dos ballenas Nicolás Short film 2018 Alex Winter Alex