FrameThrower · Actors · Daniel Giménez Cacho
Daniel Giménez Cacho
6 films · 312 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1993–2022
Born 15 May 1961 · Madrid, Spain
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Daniel Giménez Cacho is a Spanish-born Ariel award winner Mexican actor who has starred in several Mexican films such as Solo con tu pareja, Cronos, Midaq Alley and Arráncame la Vida, among others as well as in Spanish Films (La Mala Educación) and TV shows. He is known for having worked with some of the most important hispanic filmmakers like Guillermo Del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, Jorge Fons and Pedro Almodóvar.
Giménez Cacho also appeared in La Hora Marcada, a TV show written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo Del Toro and in the Mexican telenovela Teresa. His voice is heard throughout Y tu mamá también as the narrator.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 312 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1993–2022
- Ariel Award for Best Actor2002
- Ariel Award for Best Actor1996
How their films are shot
Measured across 312 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Daniel takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 45% low key — the look of the work Daniel takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 312 frames from Daniel Giménez Cacho's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.