Ricardo Darín

Creator Context

Summary

Ricardo Darín is one of Argentina’s most prominent actors and producers, known for films including The Official Story, Nine Queens, The Secret in Their Eyes, Wild Tales, The Distinguished Citizen, and Heroic Losers. His work often engages with corruption, inequality, institutional failure, dictatorship, economic crisis, and ordinary people confronting abusive systems, but these themes are generally presented as social drama or satire rather than an activist platform. Darín has publicly criticized political corruption and defended civic responsibility, education, democracy, and concern for ordinary Argentines. He has also described himself as politically independent, saying he is neither Kirchnerist nor Macrist and would not refuse to work with someone because of political differences. His public record is socially concerned but deliberately nonpartisan, with no sustained DEI, identity-politics, or culture-war persona.