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Biography #2 (for Once Upon a Time in Mexico)

Cheech Marin is best known as half of the hilariously irreverent, counter-culture duo Cheech and Chong, but is also an actor, writer director, musician, art collector and humanitarian.

At present, Marin's vision of Chicano art and expression has been brought to life in a blockbuster museum exhibit duo collectively entitled Chicano. Marin's own personal Chicano art collection, one of the largest in the world, forms the core Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge. The exhibit will visit 13 U.S. cities over the next five years.

For the last few years Marin has co-starred with Don Johnson in the CBS one-hour drama Nash Bridges, which is now in syndication.

Last year, Marin co-starred in the Robert Rodriguez film Spy Kids 2 with Antonio Banderas, which was followed by Spy Kids 3D this past summer. He was previously in Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn and Desperado. Marin also co-starred in Tin Cup, in which he played caddy and best buddy to Kevin Costner, in the modern-day fable Paulie with Tony Shalhoub, and opposite Samuel Jackson, Jeff Goldblum and Damon Wayans in The Great White Hype. He also co-stared in the Alfonso Arau-directed black comedy Picking Up the Pieces with Woody Allen.

Marin's also has a legion of ‘little' fans who know him for his work in children's music and animation, which includes providing the voice of the hyena 'Banzai' in The Lion King and as the streetwise chihuahua in Oliver and Company. His voice was also heard as ‘Lencho the Flea' on the CBS show Santo Bugito and is also featured in the up-coming video game Blazing Dragons from Crystal Dynamics.

After the phenomenal success of his first bilingual children's album My Name is Cheech, the School Bus Driver, he will release "My Name is Cheech, the School Bus Driver ‘Coast to Coast.'

Cheech and Chong were a critically acclaimed duo for 15 years, teaming on eight feature films. The first, Up in Smoke, was the highest grossing comedy of 1978, topping $100 million at the box office. It was followed by Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams, Things are Tough All over, Cheech and Chong: Still Smoking and Cheech and Chong: The Corsican Brothers. They also made guest appearances in Yellowbeard and Martin Scorsese's After Hours.

After splitting with Chong, Marin wrote, directed and starred in Universal's hit comedy Born in East L.A. Other film and television credits include Cisco Kid, Rude Awakening, Fatal Beauty and Shrimp on the Barbie.

Marin and his family divide their time between Los Angeles and Park City, Utah.

Bio courtesy Columbia Pictures for "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" (12-Oct-2003)