
Acting
Born June 20, 1950 · Mexico
Eligio Meléndez is a Mexican film, theater and television director and actor, born on June 20, 1950, in Mexico City. He studied at the Andrés Soler Acting Institute, with the renowned Luis Gimeno, Carlos Ancira, Miguel Círcega and Soledad Ruíz as teachers. One of the most recognized personalities in theater, the actor has participated in more than 30 works, including The Flower of the Heart, Borges with Music, The Enchanted Mirror, The Old Men, Trufaldino Servant of Two Patrons, Mexican Entremeses, Mexico Pachuco, Soldado Razo, among others. In film, Eligio made his debut in the film Perseguida (1991), and then built an interesting and lucrative career with roles in films such as The Colonel Doesn't Have Anyone Write to Him (1999), In the Country of Nothing Happens (2000), for which that he would receive his first Ariel nomination; Perfume of violets (2001), Amar te duele (2002), Curandero (2005), The last one and we leave (2009), Hidalgo – The untold story (2010), Yerbamala (2014) and Dream in another language (2017) , for which he was nominated, for the second time, for an Ariel award.

Border Hunters
2025

Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires
2025

Public Phone
2025

Mi Amigo Bernardo
2025

Fuego en el sur
2025

Dreams
2025

#Rats
2024
*****… (Los Asteriscos…)
2024

Quietud
2024

Underdog
2024

Disappear Completely
2024

The Day Everything Changed
2024

The Perfect Tomato
2024
Jefecita
2023

The Great Seduction
2023

Medusa
2022

Recurring Patients
2022

More Tomorrow Than Before
2022

Living all of Life
2022

Sex, Shame and Tears 2
2022
Siete en punto
2021

La Civil
2021

New Order
2020

Tragic Jungle
2020

This Is Tomas
2019

Fireflies
2018

El Día de la Unión
2018

I Dream in Another Language
2017

Bleak Street
2015

Yerbamala
2014

Vultures
2014

Ismael
2012

The Compass Is Carried by the Dead Man
2011

The Reasons of the Heart
2011

Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada
2010

One for the Road
2010

Curandero
2005

Love Hurts
2002

The Virgin of Lust
2002

¿De qué lado estás?
2002

Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You
2001

The Ruination of Men
2000

In The Country Where Nothing Happens
2000

No One Writes to the Colonel
1999

Reencuentros
1997

The Overturning Of The Heart
1996

Repartidores de muerte
1993

Curvas peligrosas
1991

Perseguida
1991