
José Manuel Poncelis
Department: Acting
Biography
With a career of more than 35 years as a theater, film, and television series actor, he has also worked as a theater director, also venturing into playwriting and production. He has acted in more than 20 films, some of them are: “Marionetas” by Álvaro Curiel, “Polvo” directed by José María Yaspik, “Sueño en otro Idioma” by Director Ernesto Contreras. He has been awarded the Mayahuel 2017 award and as best actor, with the film “Sueño en otro Idioma” at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in 2017 and with the WINSTON-SALEM OUT AT THE MOVIES LGBT FILM SERIES award. In addition to films like “De la Calle”, “La Ley de Heródes”, “Ricochet”, “Pescador” among others. He has participated in series for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, CANAL 11, FOX AND NETFLIX, among which stand out: Sitiados, Hernán, Biografía de una lengua, La Reina Roja, Palenque.
Known For

¡Que viva México!
2023

Cero y van cuatro
2004

Diente por diente
2013

I Don't Want to Be Dust
2022

Tótem
2023

La noche de las flores
2011

Never on a Sunday
2006

National Geographic: Pyramids of Death
2005

Disappear Completely
2024

Cabeza de Vaca
1991

Under California: The Limit of Time
1998

Hijos del viento
2000

Man on Fire
2004

Ik Dietrick Fon, the hidden sound of things
2015

Streeters
2001

Herod's Law
1999

Crazy Carnival
2006

I Dream in Another Language
2017

Curandero
2025

Ricochet
2020

Marionette
2020

Powder
2019

Aztech
2020

The Tiger of Santa Julia
2002

Besieged: Mexico
2019

Cóyotl, Hero and Beast
2025