Brontis Jodorowsky (born 27 October 1962) is a Chilean-French actor and theatre director. He is the son of the Chilean-French writer, director and actor Alejandro Jodorowsky and the French actress Bernadette Landru.

Biography

He was born in Chile.

His first film experience was in 1970, playing one of the main roles in his father's film El Topo.

When he was 12 years old, his father cast him in an unmade film adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune. He was trained to play the part of Paul Atreides, the main character of Dune. He had been taught by Jean-Pierre Vignau, a famous French coach in Japanese jujitsu karate, judo, aikido and also with a variety of different knives and swords. His training was intensive: 6 hours a day, seven days a week over a period of 2 years until the film project was shelved. Brontis also revealed that this training was painful and merciless.

Jodorowsky received his acting training in Parisian theatres and at the Conservatoire du XIVe. In 2011 he attended a three-month workshop at the New York Film Academy and in 2013 graduated at the Studio Theatre D'Asnières in France.

He also has a career in theatre; he directed and played in a lot of plays, mostly in Paris. A lot of his plays were presented at the Théâtre Du Soleil. He is also known for his Atrides serie of plays.

In 1991 his daughter, Alma Jodorowsky, was born. She became a French model, singer and actress.

In 2009, he wrote and directed a play with his father and was also an actor in "Le Gorille" (The Gorilla). It became one of his better-known pieces.

In the film La Danza De La Realidad (The Dance Of Reality), he had to play the role of his grandfather that he never knew. He discovered a lot about his father (who directed to film and told him how to act) and what he had endured over his lifetime. This grandfather died before the birth of Brontis, so he never saw him with his own eyes.