Luis Gnecco
Acting
Biography
Luis Gnecco Dessy was born in Santiago, Chile. He is one of Chile's most popular comedic actors, tackling the Ricky Gervais part in his country's 2008 version of "The Office". Pablo Larraín cast him in a decidedly non-comedic role as an unscrupulous villain in HBO Latin America's hit mini-series "Prófugos". Gnecco appeared in Fabula's provocative "Young and Wild" before assuming the role of the man who recruits Saavedra to join the NO campaign; it was a natural fit for the actor, as he was deeply involved in the 1988 movement to overthrow Pinochet.
Born: December 12, 1962
Place of Birth: Santiago, Chile
Known For
Narcos
A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
Alberto: ¿Quién sabe cuánto cuesta hacer un ojal?
Alberto, a young law student struggles to realize his ultimate dream: to follow the call of his priestly vocation.
The Two Popes
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.
El Angel
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.
My Tender Matador
Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship.
La Jauría
Blanca, student leader of the feminist movement in an occupied school, goes missing: hours later, a video of a group raping the girl goes viral. In their aim to find her, a police squad formed by three women puts their lives and that of their families at risk. As they look for Blanca and investigate, they will find out that behind this gender crime there is much more than just one offender.
No
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
Confessions
When a young girl from a wealthy Mexico City family disappears, a man arrives to discuss the girl's return, asking for the confession of a family member that has committed a terrible act. One by one, confession by confession, the intruder exposes each member of the family, revealing their deepest and most shocking secrets.
Savages
Sonia and Arturo live in a house that appears safe but is too large and silent. One night, three armed men violently break into the couple's property. Arturo manages to escape and capture the youngest and most inexperienced of the thieves, deciding to kidnap him and discipline him in the basement of the house. Gradually, the anger dissipates, and strange familial ties emerge that Arturo and Sonia believed were long gone. "Salvajes" is a violent portrayal of a divided society, in an unequal social fabric where the boundaries between victim and perpetrator become blurred.
El Presidente
Sergio Jadue, a lowly director of a small-town soccer club in Chile, unexpectedly finds himself at the head of the Chilean soccer association. Drunk with power, he becomes the protégé of soccer godfather Julio Grondona, as well as the FBI’s key to undoing the largest corruption scheme in the world of soccer.
Filmography
as Luca Barella
as Jhon Sixtus Gross
as Facundo
as Arturo
as Ramiro Olmos
as Government Secretary
as Horacio
as Arturo Fernandez
as Self - Judge
as DeLollis
as Carlos
as Myrna
as Claudio
as Luis Bedoya
as Braulio
as Cardinal Hummes
as Mordecai Lumann
as Father Francesco
as Self - Guest
as Lautaro
as Héctor
as Orlando Calles
as Self
as Self
as Vasco Zartundúa
as Corrado
as Carlos "Caco" Martinez
as Gabo
as Gustavo Barría
as Pablo Neruda
as Self - Contestant
as Cristián Grez
as Attorney Ramos
as Padre Saverio
as La Cucaracha
as Fernando Karadima
as Pedro
as Lieutenant De Luca
as Rubén Morales
as Pérez
as Leo
as Urrutia
as Sergio Monroy
as Interviewee
as Self
as Mario Moreno
as José Miguel Gorgona
as Tato
as Monasterio
as Inspector Gormáz
as Rubén Iturra
as Manuel Cerda
as Minister
as Oliva - Chief of Protocoll
as Mauricio Valdebenito Valdebenito
as Eugenio Necochea
as Leonardo Garay
as Pedro
as Gus
as Jimmy González
as César Aros
as Leopoldo Quevedo
as Tomás
as Self
as Julio Marambio
as Lawyer
as Bernando
as Antonio del Canto
as Self
as Mauricio Gándara
as Alfonso
as Amadeo Morales
as Jorge Luis Borges