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Emilio Echevarría Dies: ‘Amores Perros’ And ‘Die Another Day’ Actor Was 80
His death was announced by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences. Additional details were not disclosed.
Emilio 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. 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. Among Echevarría’s most frequent collaborators was Gael García Bernal: In addition to Amores Perros, Y tu mamá también and Babel, the two appeared in the 2015 Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle.
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