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Also Known As Alfonso Cuarón Orozco
Born November 28, 1961 (age 64) • Mexico City • Mexico
Awards And Honors Golden Globe Award (2019) • Academy Award (2019) • Academy Award (2014) • Academy Award (2019): Cinematography • Academy Award (2019): Directing • Academy Award (2014): Directing • Academy Award (2014): Film Editing • Golden Globe Award (2019): Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language • Golden Globe Award (2019): Best Director - Motion Picture • Golden Globe Award (2014): Best Director - Motion Picture
Notable Works “Children of Men” • “Gravity” • “Great Expectations” • “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” • “Roma” • “Y tu mamá también”
Notable Family Members son of Alfredo Cuarón • married to Annalisa Bugliani (2001–2008) • married to Mariana Elizondo (1980–1993) • father of Jonás Cuarón (b. 1981) • father of Tess Bu Cuarón (b. 2003) • father of Olmo Teodoro Cuarón (b. 2005) • brother of Carlos Cuarón
Education National Autonomous University of Mexico
Movies/Tv Shows (Acted In) "The Bet" (2007) • "The Bet" (2016–2020) • "Too Smooth" (1998) • "Quantum of Solace" (2008)
Movies/Tv Shows (Directed) "Sólo con tu pareja" (1991) • "Roma" (2018) • "Believe" (2014) • "Paris, je t'aime" (2006) • "Hora Marcada" (1989–1990) • "Children of Men" (2006) • "Fallen Angels" (1993) • "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" (2004) • "A Little Princess" (1995) • "Y tu mamá también" (2001) • "Gravity" (2013) • "Great Expectations" (1998)
Movies/Tv Shows (Writing/Creator) "Gravity" (2013) • "Roma" (2018) • "Sólo con tu pareja" (1991) • "Paris, je t'aime" (2006) • "Believe" (2014) • "Children of Men" (2006" • "Hora Marcada" (1989–1990) • "Y tu mamá también" (2001)
Movies/Tv Shows (Cinematography) "Roma" (2018) • "Hora Marcada" (1989–1990)
Movies/Tv Shows (Film Editor) "Hora Marcada" (1989–1990) • "Gravity" (2013) • "Children of Men" (2006" • "Y tu mamá también" (2001) • "Sólo con tu pareja" (1991) • "Roma" (2018)

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Alfonso Cuarón was born on November 28, 1961.
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Alfonso Cuarón was born in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

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