Sergio Jiménez

He studied acting at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA) (1962-1964), the same years in which he began as an independent actor, and, professionally, in the emblematic film Los Caifanes, in 1966, in which he played the role of El Gato, a member of a youth gang in the city; he also studied in London and Paris. He was a disciple of Héctor Mendoza, Luisa Josefina Hernández, José Luis Ibáñez and Alejandro Jodorowsky and, later, a professor of acting, directing and theater theory at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (ffyl) and the Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales (fcpys) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (unam), as well as at inba, the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (imss) and various private schools. He founded Televisa's acting workshop, today Centro de Educación Artística (cea), in 1978.

Sergio Jiménez Flores, actor and director of theater and television, essayist and narrator, dedicated himself to acting for nearly forty years and to directing theater and television, basically soap operas, starting in 1977. As an essayist, he compiled theoretical texts and theatrical performances, and as a narrator, in Los siameses que vivían muy juntos, the author combines literary resources with those of film and theater to create an atmosphere typical of the so-called "theater of the absurd". His last work was as director of the telenovela La fea más bella, broadcast by Televisa in 2007.