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Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
About José María de Tavira
- José María de Tavira Bianchi (born September 27, 1983 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film and stage actor. The son of Mexican theatre director Luis de Tavira and Argentine actress Rosa María Bianchi, he began acting on stage with his parents; at age seven had his first participation in an adaptation of Clotilde en su casa of Jorge Ibargüengoitia, then in 1994 participated in the work Jubileo by Jose Ramon Henríquez.
- Academy Award nominee Marina de Tavira is José María's cousin. He made his film debut in The Mask of Zorro playing the main character Alejandro Murrieta (Zorro) as a child.
- In 2002, he has a brief stint on the Mexican film Amar te duele by Fernando Sariñana.
- After that he went to London, England, to study drama at Royal Holloway, University of London.
- While studying in London, he was called to do a casting for the Mexican comedy Cansada de besar sapos (Tired of Kissing Toads).
- He played the role of Xavier a stage actor who falls in love with Martha, played by Ana Serradilla.
- The film was well received by young audiences.
- He worked with Fernando Sariñana again in the film Enemigos íntimos as Mauricio co-starring Demián Bichir, Veronica Merchant, Ximena Sariñana, Dolores Heredia and Blanca Sanchez.
- This movie was shown at the XXIII International Film Festival in Guadalajara.
- In September 2008 the film Arráncame la vida (Tear This Heart Out), based on the novel of the Mexican writer Angeles Mastretta, got released in Mexico.
- In this film he played Carlos Vives, a young leader and lover of Catalina Guzmán, played by Ana Claudia Talancón.
- This Mexican production had a budget of 6.5 million dollars, was filmed in Puebla and Mexico City with locations in the Palace of Fine Arts and Chapultepec Castle among others.
- That same year he presented his short film 100 metros at the VI International Film Festival of Morelia.
- The film is an adaptation of Harold Pinter's Victoria Station and held in conjunction with his brother Julián de Tavira, both worked on the script, production and directing.
- In 2009 is starring Amar a morir as Alejandro Vizcaino.
- The film tells a love story amid the current disputes in Mexico.
- Also starring Martina García and Alberto Estrella. In 2016 he appeared in the Mexican version of Rosario Tijeras as one of the main characters.
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