Brontis Jodorowsky
Brontis Jodorowsky is a Mexican-French actor and theatre director.
Personal life
Brontis Jodorowsky was born on October 27, 1962 in Mexico. He is the son of Chilean-French writer, director, and actor Alejandro Jodorowsky and French actress Bernadette Landru.His daughter, the actress Alma Jodorowsky, was born in France.
Career
Jodorowsky had his first film experience as a prominent role in his father's 1970 film El Topo.When he was twelve 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. In the documentary Jodorowsky's Dune Brontis described the training as painful and merciless.
Jodorowsky received his acting training in Parisian theatres and at the. In 2011 he attended a three-month workshop at the New York Film Academy and in 2013 graduated from the in France.
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.
In 2009, he wrote and directed a play with his father and was also an actor in Le Gorille which became one of his better-known pieces.
In the film La Danza De [La Realidad], he had to play the role of his grandfather Jaime 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. 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.
In 2018, Jodorowsky played alchemist Nicolas Flamel in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, his first blockbuster role.
Theatre
Plays (as director)
- 2000: Le Médecin volant
- 2000: Qu’est-ce que ça peut faire
- 2000: Haute surveillance
- 2006: L'Inattendu
- 2009: Pelléas et Mélisande
- 2009: Le Gorille
- 2011: Rigoletto
- 2011: L’Inattendu
Plays (as actor)
- 1989: La Nuit miraculeuse
- 1990: Les Atrides: Iphigénie à Aulis
- 1990: Les Atrides: Agamemnon
- 1991: Les Atrides: Les Choéphores
- 1992: Les Atrides: Les Euménides
- 1994: La Ville parjure ou le Réveil des Erinyes
- 1995: Le Tartuffe
- 1995: Anthropologies
- 1995: Pierre et le loup
- 1995: Le Songe d'une nuit d'été
- 1995: Macbeth
- 1997: Le Bon Dieu de Manhattan
- 1998: Giacomo le tyrannique
- 1998: Peines d'amour perdues
- 1999: Danser à Lughnasa de
- 2000: L’Ultime Chant de Troie
- 2001: Opéra panique
- 2001: L’Évangile selon Judas
- 2001: Mon pauvre Fiedia
- 2001: En attendant Godot
- 2004: Un homme est un homme
- 2005: Troïlus et Cressida
- 2005: Merlin ou la terre dévastée
- 2006: Tragedy: a tragedy
- 2006: La Marquise d'O
- 2009: Le Gorille
Filmography
He is also credited in the short film Echek in the "thanks" section.Television series
Character: LandisEpisode: FlashbackSection de recherches
Character: Patrick Venderlen
Episode: Vents contraires
Voice dub
MatrimoniCharacter: Paolo Sessanelli