Brontis Jodorowsky

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Brontis Jodorowsky
Born (1962-10-27) 27 October 1962 (age 61)
Mexico
Citizenship Mexico
France
Occupation(s)Comedian, actor
Years active1970–present
Children Alma Jodorowsky
Father Alejandro Jodorowsky
Relatives Adán Jodorowsky (brother), Axel Jodorowsky (brother)

Brontis Jodorowsky (born 27 October 1962) is a Mexican-French actor and theatre director. He is the son of Chilean-French writer, director and actor Alejandro Jodorowsky [1] and French actress Bernadette Landru.

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Life and career

Jodorowsky was born in Mexico. His first film experience was a prominent role in his father's 1970 film El Topo .

When he was 12 years old, his father cast him in a planned film adaptation of Dune by Frank Herbert. He was trained to play the part of the novel's protagonist, Paul Atreides. He had been taught by Jean-Pierre Vignau, a famous French coach in Japanese jujitsu, karate, judo, aikido, and also knife and sword combat. His training was intensive: 6 hours a day, seven days a week over a period of two years until the film project was shelved. Brontis described the training as painful and merciless. [2]

Jodorowsky received his acting training in Parisian theatres and at the Conservatoire du XIVe. In 2011 he attended a three-month workshop at the New York Film Academy and in 2013 graduated from the Studio Theatre D'Asnières in France. [3]

He also has a career in theatre, directing and performing in numerous plays, most of them in Paris. Many of his works were presented at the Théâtre Du Soleil. He is also known for his Atrides series of plays. [4] (Atreides is both the name of descendants of the Greek mythological figure Atreus and the name of the protagonist family in Frank Herbert's Dune novels.)

In 1991 his daughter, Alma Jodorowsky, was born. She is a French model, singer and actress.

In 2009, he wrote and directed a play with his father and was also an actor in Le Gorille (The Gorilla) which became one of his better-known pieces. [5]

In the film La Danza De La Realidad (The Dance Of Reality), he had to play the role of his grandfather whom he'd never known or seen in person, since he died before Brontis was born. Through his father's direction of the film, he discovered much about his father and what he had endured over his lifetime. [6] He reprised the role of Jaime Jodorowsky in the film's sequel, Endless Poetry , which, like La Danza De La Realidad, was also inspired by his father's life experiences, this time focusing on Alejandro's youth and discovery of poetry.

Theatre

Plays (as director)

Plays (as actor)

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1970 El Topo Hijo (title character's son)Film by his father, Alejandro Jodorowsky
1971PubertinajeFirst part only
1974El Muro Del SilencioDaniel
1981Black Mirror
1989 Santa Sangre Orderly 1Film by his father, Alejandro Jodorowsky
1999GialloparmaFabrizio
2005J'ai Vu Tuer Ben BarkaGraphologie expert.
2007Le Voyageur De La ToussaintDocteur SauvagetTV movie
2010A Season Of JodorowskyHimselfDocumentary. Short.
2012TáuGustavo
2013 The Dance of Reality JaimeFilm by his father, Alejandro Jodorowsky
2013 Jodorowsky's Dune HimselfDocumentary about Alejandro Jodorowsky
2015 Anton Tchékhov 1890 Alexandre Tchekhov
2016 The Darkness Gustavo
Endless Poetry JaimeFilm by his father, Alejandro Jodorowsky
2017 Opus Zero Zero
2018 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Nicolas Flamel

He is also credited in the short film Echek in the "thanks" section. [7]

Television series

Character: Landis Episode: Flashback

Character: Patrick Venderlen Episode: Vents contraires

Voice dub

Character: Paolo Sessanelli

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