Daniel González-Muniz

Daniel González Muniz (Santiago de Chile). Ilustrador, docente y actor chileno de cine, teatro y televisión.

Chilean actor and illustrator. He was born in Santiago, Chile. He is the third child of Teobaldo González a public health doctor, and Maria Esther Muniz, an Uruguayan artisan and teacher. The family spent most of their years in the 80s between Chile and Uruguay. Once the regime of Augusto Pinochet fell, they spend most of the time in Santiago.

Daniel studied in Liceo Experimental Manuel de Salas and graduated from High School in both LMS and in Kingsley Michigans High School, were he lived as an exchange student and sing at a Gospel choir.

After finishing high school, he did some studies at the fine arts faculty in University of Chile, but he became interested in theatre and went into Teatro Imagen academy, founded and directed by National Arts Prize Gustavo Meza. From 2006 to 2010 he was part of the fiction cast for Chilean TV station Chilevisión. In 2010 he became a candidate in Scenic arts and won the best actor award at the first Chilean National actors and actresses unions Festival "EXIT". He has been in successful plays such as the Chilean version of the musicals "Cabaret" and "Piaf", also in the National arts funded "Chilean Homosexual Identity and memory trilogy". In 2010 Daniel Gonzalez Muniz starts working as a volunteer in Animal Traffic prevention and co founder of an Enviromental Education Program in the northern Jungle of Costa Rica, in Tortuguero village. His passion for these animals lead him to move to Costa Rica in 2016, where he publishes the book "The turtle and the Monster" by Editorial Costa Rica. In 2016 Daniel Gonzalez Muniz is granted a Residency permit for Persona of Cultural Interest, requested by the Minister of Culture of Costa Rica. After this, he works as an actor in Costa Rican films "Apego", "Pájaros de fuego" and the National arts fund El fauno TV series "N.N". In 2017 González Muniz, among other authors publishes "Hurricane Otto, the night that lasted many days" bu Editorial Costa Rica, whose sales were to helps the victims of the disaster. He also was a part of the cast for the National Company of Theatre of Costa Rica concerted play "El coordinador", written by Chilean author Benjamín Galemiri. In 2018, he played "Father Flynn" in Costa Rican's acclaimed version of John Patrick Shanley's "The Doubt" and wrote/co-directed along the Mexican filmmaker Alberto Amieba the film "The year i was born" (El año que nací), right now in post production. In 2020 Costa Rican office of the International Board of books for children and youth (IBBY), included his book "The turtle and the monster" in the country's Honor list. The book was also included in CERLALC-UNESCO's first catalogue "Read,imagine,think" oriented to highlight latinamerican books for children that represented the best United Nations' SDO values.

Cine

• Fantastique (2008) como Tomás.
• Amistades inconvenientes (2008)
• Ghosts (2011, dirección: Florencia Dupont) como Orpheus.
• Raúl (2012, dirección Matías Venables)
• Manutara (2013 Dirección: Elías Llanos)
• Papito (2014 Dirección: Leo Mena)
• Soñar(2016 Dirección: Gustavo Espinoza)
• Apego(2019 Dirección: Patricia Velasquez)
• Pájaro de Fuego(Dirección: Cesar Caro)
• The year i was born (2020 Dirección: Alberto Amieva, Daniel González Muniz)

Televisión

• Piaf
• Sangre como la mía
• Cabaret
• La Plaza de las Américas
• Más allá de la terapia
• Ami, el niño de las estrellas
• Sangre como la mía
• No more drama
• Gritos y susurros, tributo a Ingmar Bergman