# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfonso-arau
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:43:09.617Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfonso-arau"
name: "Alfonso Arau"
slug: "alfonso-arau"
description: "Alfonso Arau Incháustegui is a Mexican filmmaker and actor. He worked as an actor and director in both Mexican and Hollywood productions for over 40 years, before his international breakthrough with the 1992 film Like Water for Chocolate, based on his wife Laura Esquivel's novel of the same name. His other films include A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Picking Up the Pieces (2000), The Magnificent Ambersons (2002) and Zapata: El sueño del héroe (2004). He is a five-time Ariel Award winner, including Best Director for Like Water for Chocolate, and a BAFTA nominee."
tagline: "Mexican actor, film director and producer (born 1932)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alfonso_Arau_en_1956_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Mexico"
  isoCode: "MX"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1932-01-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.734692
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  240
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0000778"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump