Brontis Jodorowsky, born in Mexico in 1962, began his acting career at the tender age of 7, starring in his father Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1970 film "El Topo".
As a child actor, Brontis participated in his father's "The Holy Mountain" and the episode "Pubertinaje" directed by José Antonio Alcaraz, earning the prestigious Mexican Diosa de Plata Best Child Actor Prize in 1974 for his role in José Luis Alcoriza's film "El Muro del Silencio".
After relocating to France in 1979, Brontis continued to hone his craft on stage, working with renowned directors such as Ariane Mnouchkine, Irina Brook, Jorge Lavelli, Simon Abkarian, Bernard Sobel, Lukas Hemleb, Jean Liermier, Paul Golub, and Laurent Laffargue. He also expanded his repertoire to include feature films and television, while gradually shifting his focus towards opera stage direction.
Notable stage direction credits include Debussy's "Pelleas et Mélisande" in 2009, Verdi's "Rigoletto" in 2011, and Bizet's "Carmen" in 2012.
Brontis's filmography boasts a diverse range of international productions, including Mexican director Daniel Castro Zimbrón's "Tau" in 2011, and his father Alejandro Jodorowsky's "The Dance of Reality", which premiered at the Cannes Directors Fortnight in 2013.
Since then, he has appeared in René Feret's "Anton Tchekhov 1890" (France),Frank Pavich's "Jodorowsky's Dune" (USA),Antonio Chavarrías' "The Chosen" (Mexico/Spain),Alejandro Jodorowsky's "Endless Poetry", Daniel Castro Zimbron's "The Darkness" (Mexico),Nathalie Marchak's "Par Instinct" (France),Daniel Graham's "Opus Zero" (Mexico),José Padhila's "7 Days in Entebbe" (U.K.),Kyzza Terraza's "Bayoneta" (Mexico),and David Yates' "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" (U.K./USA).
In 2019, Brontis reprised his role in "Le Gorille" (The Gorilla),a play based on a Franz Kafka tale, for 60 special performances at the Théâtre du Lucernaire in Paris. He has since performed the play 368 times in various countries and four different languages, with a forthcoming tour to Mexico City and New York.
Brontis is also the author of the book "Manual de codicia" (Urano / Empresa activa, Spain).
