Tony Dalton

Acting

Tony Dalton

Born 1975-02-13 · Laredo, Texas, USA

Álvaro Luis Bernat "Tony" Dalton (born February 13, 1975) is an American and Mexican actor. For much of his career, he has acted in Mexican films, television shows, and stage plays. He is best known in the United States for his portrayal of Lalo Salamanca in Better Call Saul (2018–2022). He also starred as Jack Duquesne in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe miniseries Hawkeye. Álvaro Luis Bernat Dalton was born in Laredo, Texas, on February 13, 1975, the son of an American mother and a Mexican father. He attended the Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts, then studied acting at New York City's Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Dalton's first major role was on the Mexican telenovela Rebelde (2004–2006). His first film role was in Matando Cabos (2004), which he also co-wrote. He later wrote and starred in Sultanes del Sur (2007). His other film credits include Violanchelo (2008) and The Perfect Dictatorship (2014). He also played a supporting role in the HBO Latin America series Capadocia (2008). He played the lead in the HBO series Sr. Ávila (2017), which won the International Emmy award for Best Non-English Language Series. Dalton portrayed Lalo Salamanca in Better Call Saul (2018–2022), first appearing in the season 4 episode "Coushatta." His performance received critical acclaim, earning him nominations for one Screen Actors Guild Award and two Saturn Awards, while some critics deemed Lalo one of the best villains on television. He was cast as Jack Duquesne in the miniseries Hawkeye (2021) after producer Trinh Tran was impressed with his performance in Better Call Saul. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Dalton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Trap House poster
6.7

An undercover DEA agent and his partner embark on a game of cat and mouse with an audacious, and surprising group of thieves – their own rebellious teenagers, who have begun robbing from a dangerous cartel, using their parents' tactics and top-secret intel to do it.

Trap House

2025

Colombiana poster
6.6

After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.

Colombiana

2011

El Infierno poster
8.0

After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

El Infierno

2010

El mal poster
5.3

“El mal is basically a suspense story, where the audience senses that something disturbing is going to happen, but doesn't know how or when. But it also aims to get the viewer to question their own certainties, their capacity to love and to accept their own dark side.”

El mal

2026

Night Shift poster
6.4

A young nurse with a domestic abuse past starts working the night shift at a small hospital, where, during the night, the ghost of a nurse materializes.

Night Shift

2024

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye poster
7.2

Join the likes of Jeremy Renner, Hailee Steinfeld, Florence Pugh, and Vincent D’Onofrio as they reveal how Marvel Studios’ “Hawkeye” was conceived and created. Witness firsthand what it took to pull off the show’s pulse-pounding action set pieces, and discover how iconic characters from the pages of Marvel Comics such as Kate Bishop were adapted and brought to life for the six-episode series.

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye

2022

Killing Cabos poster
7.8

Two young men get involved with some criminals while trying to free the tycoon they kidnapped.

Killing Cabos

2004

Dime lo que quieres (de verdad) poster
7.8

Diego and Emilia are a conservative couple with 16 years of marriage who have lost the spark, until Tomás and Betina rescue them and introduce them to the forbidden world, changing what they know about intimacy, relationships, and sex.

Dime lo que quieres (de verdad)

2023

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas poster
7.2

In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doña Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecún Umán, the drug trafficking networks, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha.

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas

2012

Minotaur poster
6.5

Alex Abramov is Mossad secret agent looking after some bad guys. He falls in love with young music student Thea, but can not reveal himself and sends her gifts secretly. Thea first thinks that it must be another student, G.R., who sends gifts, and bad guys, knowing about Alex's feelings towards Thea, attack G.R. by mistake.

Minotaur

1997

Personal Effects poster
6.2

At 18, fresh from high school, Marina, Ignacio, Adam and Mimi, school mates bonded by fate, shared a dream about adult life, a dream of fame, success, perfect skin and that one endless, true love that, surely, was waiting just around the corner for each one of them. But 30's arrived, and none of the sweet promises of youth was fulfilled. Alone, failed and frustrated, all four are forced to stop and look around to try to understand where it all went wrong, and find an emergency fix for their lives, before it's too late, and happiness escapes through their fingers forever. Secondary Effects is the bitter coming of age comedy that follows their steps in the search for lost dreams, lost hair and good sex, at least, if true love turns out to be a mirage.

Personal Effects

2006

The Mutations poster
NR

After surgery leaves lawyer Raúl without his tongue, he struggles to adapt to life and his changing relationships. His housekeeper, Elodia, gifts him a swearing parrot that becomes his quirky confidant while she takes on the role of his unconventional caregiver, relying on miracle cures and prayers.

The Mutations

2025

The Perfect Dictatorship poster
7.4

TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?

The Perfect Dictatorship

2014

Come Back, Come Back poster
7.5

Jorge is an ambitious lawyer on his way to Acapulco, where he hopes to receive a promotion. His girlfriend Mónica is traveling with him. When their car breaks down, Jorge desperately starts hitchhiking. Finally, a car pulls over, and their journey continues—only to reveal that some past connections are never truly left behind.

Come Back, Come Back

2006

Valentina's Wedding poster
6.5

Valentina's seemingly idyllic life in the US is interrupted when planning a wedding means introducing her fiancé to her scandalous family in Mexico.

Valentina's Wedding

2018

Sultans of the South poster
6.8

A band of thieves steals from a Mexican bank and travel to Argentina to launder the money. Upon their arrival, the plan goes south and it's up to them to figure out what went wrong.

Sultans of the South

2007

Love, Pain and Vice Versa poster
5.3

Chelo is an architect, withdrawing from her social life because of realistic dreams she's having of a romance with a strange man. She's convinced the man is real, out there, destined to be with her. She reports a rape to the police, describing the man of her dreams to a sketch artist. The police find a suspect: he's Marcos, a physician. Chelo tells the police this is not the man who raped her, but now she has Marcos in her sights. Her plan for him to fall in love with her is complicated by his having a fiancée. What can Chelo do? Meanwhile, Marcos has violent dreams about an unfamiliar woman. Chronologies overlap, glass breaks. Can a mind lie to itself?

Love, Pain and Vice Versa

2008

Good Day, Ramon poster
7.9

After five failed attempts to go to the United States, 18-year-old Ramón decides to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany, but never finds her. With no papers or money, and without knowing the language, he barely survives living on the street until he meets Ruth, an old retired nurse who doesn’t speak Spanish. Beyond language barriers and prejudices, they discover that solidarity and humanity make life bearable.

Good Day, Ramon

2013

Amar poster
3.8

Five stories blend with love, sex, the emptiness of being unloved, passion and desire: Carlos and Susana go to some uncle´s apartment to make love. Meanwhile, Benito, an 80-year-old, performs a serenade to his wife. His neighbor Adela is told that her mother has Alzheimer and that she will be relocated since the Buenos Aires building she lives in will be demolished. Amado catches his son Carlos stealing his money. Gabriel asks Martha´s parents for her hand in marriage but they condition them to get married at their favorite church. And Patricia, 40, a creative agent, sexually abuses Joel, who directs a beer commercial.

Amar

2009

Ni tuyo, ni mía poster
8.7

Amanda realizes that her perfect husband is having an affair. Instead of confronting him, she teams up with his husband's lover to understand what went wrong and win him back.

Ni tuyo, ni mía

2021

April's Daughters poster
5.9

Valeria is 17 and pregnant. She lives in Puerto Vallarta with Clara, her half sister. Valeria has not wanted her long-absent mother, April, to find out about her pregnancy, but due to the economic strain and the overwhelming responsibility of having a baby in the house, Clara decides to call their mother. April arrives, willing to her daughters, but we soon understand why Valeria had wanted her to stay away.

April's Daughters

2017

Amalgam poster
4.9

Four dentists, three men and a woman, meet at a yearly dental convention in Mexico’s Mayan Riviera. While two of them are old friends and rivals, the other two have only gotten to know each other at past conventions.

Amalgam

2020

Film Adventurer Karel Zeman poster
7.5

A look at the life, work and importance of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89), a genius of world cinema, a wizard of special effects, revealing his sources of inspiration and his revolutionary filming techniques.

Film Adventurer Karel Zeman

2015

Amar no es Querer poster
6.5

Jakie es una joven que disfruta de ayudar a los más necesitados, pero su esposo Samuel no comparte este sentimiento. El mundo de Jakie giraba alrededor de la ayuda a niños con cáncer en una clínica, el mundo de él giraba alrededor de los negocios, no le interesaba el altruismo de su mujer. Un trágico accidente deja en coma a Samuel, después de meses de espera Jackie decide seguir su vida y volverse a enamorar.

Amar no es Querer

2011

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