Early life

Julio was born Julio Cadena Cardenas in Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

, he began taking acting at age 16 at the Strasberg's Method Studio with teacher Rene Pereyra, there he appear on various plays including After Death and Midnight's Summer Dream. A year later unfortunately his mother died, so he started to live alone and earned his living as a model in TV ads.

Career

Julio's film career began with the film El agujero (1997), directed by Beto Gomez. In 1998 he decided to continue his studies with legendary teachers like Arturo Ripstein, Patricia Reyes Spíndola and Ludwik Margules, among others. In 1999 he played the role of the madame in the play The Maids by Jean Genet, directed by Natalia Traven and produced by Patricia Reyes Spíndola.

Later he made shorts and in 2002 he directed his own short film titled Popis, finalist at the Guanajuato Shorts Film Festival. In TV, he has appeared in some telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

s like Amigas y rivales

Amigas y rivales

Amigas y rivales is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 2001.- Plot :Amigas y Rivales tells the story of four women from different social backgrounds...

, María Belén and Las vías del amor

Las vías del amor

Las Vías del Amor was a Mexican telenovela that aired on the Televisa channel in Mexico and Univision in the United States from 2002-2003.-Plot:...

.

He made his U.S debut in Broken Lizard's Club Dread

Club Dread

Club Dread is a 2004 comedy horror film written by the comedy group Broken Lizard, who also created Super Troopers...

(2003) directed by Jay Chandrasekhar

Jay Chandrasekhar

Jayanth Jambulingam "Jay" Chandrasekhar is a Tamil American actor, comedian, writer, and film director with the comedy team Broken Lizard.-Life and career:...

. Following this Bekhor began to received more acting work and he appeared in Sea of Dreams alongside Sonia Braga

Sônia Braga

Sônia Maria Campos Braga is a Brazilian actress. She has been nominated for both a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award.-Early life:...

, Seymour Cassell and Mexican actress Angelica María.

He is currently making a name for himself in the American market living in Los Angeles. He has a movie called Age of Kali directed by Rafal Zielinsky soon to be released.

Besides his career as an actor, Julio has a monthly column in a teen magazine called 15 a 20 in which he writes about his adventures and answers all kind of questions for the readers, work he has done since 1999.

Filmography

• El agujero (1997)
• Popis (2003 Directorial debut)
• Club Dread
  Club Dread
  Club Dread is a 2004 comedy horror film written by the comedy group Broken Lizard, who also created Super Troopers...
  
  (2004)
• Sea of Dreams (2005)
• Age of Kali (2006)

Telenovelas

• Las vías del amor
  Las vías del amor
  Las Vías del Amor was a Mexican telenovela that aired on the Televisa channel in Mexico and Univision in the United States from 2002-2003.-Plot:...
  
  
• Amigas y rivales
  Amigas y rivales
  Amigas y rivales is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 2001.- Plot :Amigas y Rivales tells the story of four women from different social backgrounds...
  
  
• Salomé
  Salomé (telenovela)
  Salomé is a Mexican Telenovela that aired in 2001-2002, and it's starred Edith González and Guy Ecker.-Plot:The first part of the story takes part in the 1980s. Salomé, who was abandoned as a child by her mother, is a cabaret dancer who works at the cabaret Salón D'Rubí. Her best friend, Karicia,...
  
  
• María Belén