Luis Sergio Peris-Mencheta Barrio (born 7 April 1975), better known as Sergio Peris-Mencheta, is a Spanish actor, and theatre director.
Luis Sergio Peris-Mencheta Barrio was born on 7 April 1975 in Madrid, son to a Spanish father and a Moscow-born mother, daughter of Spanish exiles. A rugby union player for the team of the Lycée Français, he also was part of international teams that won several championships, and was captain of his youth team. After finishing secondary school, he enrolled at the Charles III University of Madrid, but while participating in the university theater group directed by Inés ParÃÂs he discovered a desire to become an actor.
In 1998, Peris-Mencheta landed a role in teen drama television series Al salir de clase, which earned him popularity. He played Dani Daroca, one of the students of the Siete Robles school.
He made his feature film debut in Jara (1999), in which he starred alongside the also debuting Olivia Molina and seasoned actress ÃÂngela Molina. He portrayed Tato, a man who finds a mysterious and beautiful woman (Jara) living alone in the forest since she was a child, starting a murky relationship.
In 2017 he made his American television debut in Snowfall, in which he played a former Mexican luchador employed by a drug cartel in 1980s Los Angeles. The series ran for 6 seasons, from 2017-2023.
In 2017, he married actress , with whom he has 2 children. In January 2024, Peris-Mencheta announced that he was suffering from an unspecified type of cancer, which was later disclosed to be chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML).