Emilio Echevarría Dies: ‘Amores Perros’ And ‘Die Another Day’ Actor Was 80
deadline.comEmilio Echevarría, the Mexican actor who played the hitman known as “El Chivo” (The Goat) in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s 2000 film Amores perros and also appeared in Alfonso Cuarón Y tu mamá también (2001) and Iñárritu’s Babel (2006), died Saturday, January 4.
He was 80. His death was announced by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences. Additional details were not disclosed.
Born Emilio Antonio Echevarría Noriega on July 3, 1944, in Mexico City, Echevarría began his acting career in the late 1970s and he would go on to become a three-time nominee for Mexico’s Ariel Awards.
His breakthrough role came with Amores perros in 2000, followed quickly by Y tu mamá también, the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day and then, in 2004, John Lee Hancock’s The Alamo.
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