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Demin Bichir Njera is a Mexican actor, from a wellknown family of Mexican actors, the Bichir family, which include his parents Alejandro Bichir and Maricruz Njera and his brothers Odiseo Bichir and Bruno Bichir. He began his acting career starring in many Mexican telenovelas and films before achieving fame for roles in Mexican films, such as the recordbreaking Sexo, pudor y lgrimas and Sin noticias de Dios. In the U.S., he played Detective Marco Ruiz in the FX drama television series, The Bridge. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for A Better Life and played Bob in Quentin Tarantinos The Hateful Eight.

Bichir was born at Torreon, Mexico, the son of actors Alejandro Bichir and Maricruz Njera . Demian began his career in the theater and became a member of the National Theater Company at the age of 13, performing Shakespeare, ValleInclan, ONeill, Dostoyevsky, Simon and Shaffer, among others. His mastery of the greats at a young age garnered him several awards from the Mexican Association of Theater Critics. The following year he obtained a role in his first movie, the American production Choices of the Heart. He got his first starring character in the Telenovela El Rincon de los Prodigios where he acts as a stranger who performs miracles in front of the people confronting the corrupt authorities and the church.

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