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Born in Mexico in 1962, Brontis Jodorowsky began his acting journey at age 7 with "El Topo," directed by his father, Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Following roles in his father's "The Holy Mountain" and José Antonio Alcaraz's episode of "Pubertinaje," he won the Mexican Diosa de Plata Best Child Actor Award in 1974 for his role in José Luis Alcoriza's "El Muro del Silencio."
After relocating to France in 1979, he continued acting on stage under directors like Ariane Mnouchkine, Irina Brook, Jorge Lavelli, Simon Abkarian, Bernard Sobel, Lukas Hemleb, Jean Liermier, Paul Golub, and Laurent Laffargue. He also appeared in films and television while beginning to direct opera productions, including Debussy’s "Pelléas et Mélisande" (2009), Verdi’s "Rigoletto" (2011), and Bizet’s "Carmen" (2012).
In 2011, he starred in Daniel Castro Zimbrón’s "Tau" and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s "The Dance of Reality," which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Directors' Fortnight.
Since then, his credits include René Feret’s "Anton Tchekhov 1890" (France), Frank Pavich’s "Jodorowsky’s Dune" (USA), Antonio Chavarrías’s "The Chosen" (Mexico/Spain), Alejandro Jodorowsky’s "Endless Poetry," Daniel Castro Zimbrón’s "The Darkness" (Mexico), Nathalie Marchak’s "Par Instinct" (France), Daniel Graham’s "Opus Zero" (Mexico), José Padilha’s "7 Days in Entebbe" (UK), Kyzza Terrazas’s "Bayoneta" (Mexico), and David Yates’s "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" (UK/USA).
At the end of 2019, he revived "Le Gorille," a play based on a Franz Kafka story created in 2008, for 60 special performances at Théâtre du Lucernaire in Paris. To date, he has performed it 368 times across various countries and in four languages. Plans are underway for a tour to Mexico City and New York.
He is also the author of the book "Manual de codicia" (Urano / Empresa Activa, Spain).
