Antonio Bolívar

Known for Acting

Colombia

Biography

Antonio Bolívar was an Indigenous Colombian (Ocaina) actor and esteemed elder. He is known for his roles in Embrace of the Serpent (2015) and the Netflix original sci-fi/crime mystery Green Frontier (2019).

Known For (2 credits)

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Green Frontier

2019

When a young Bogotá-based detective gets drawn into the jungle to investigate four femicides, she uncovers magic, an evil plot and her own true origins.

7.7

Movie

Embrace of the Serpent

2015

The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.