Manuel Garcia-Rulfo

Manuel Garcia-Rulfo is the kind of leading man I keep rooting for: one who arrived at stardom sideways, through character work, rather than being manufactured for it. His Mickey Haller in The Lincoln Lawyer carries an unhurried, lived-in charisma that American legal dramas rarely allow, and I suspect his bicultural career — moving between Guadalajara and Hollywood — is what gives him that ease. He can sit inside a blockbuster spectacle like Six Underground without being swallowed by it, which takes real screen gravity. As Latino leads finally get the roles they deserve, he feels like the movement's quiet standard-bearer.

Name (English)

Manuel Garcia-Rulfo

Name (Japanese)

マヌエル・ガルシア＝ルルフォ

Reading

まぬえる・がるしあ＝るるふぉ

Born

February 25, 1981 (age 45)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rooster

Origin

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / model / film producer

University

Atemajac Valley University

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/manu_rulfo/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%8C%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A2%EF%BC%9D%E3%83%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9

Tags

• Jalisco
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-11

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