Manuel García-Rulfo Lapuente is a Mexican actor,[1] working in both Mexico and the United States. He is known for his starring role since 2022 as lawyer Mickey Haller in the American television legal drama series The Lincoln Lawyer. He has appeared in films such as Cake (2014), The Magnificent Seven (2016), A Man Called Otto (2022) and Jurassic World Rebirth (2025), as well as the television series From Dusk till Dawn: The Series (2014–2015).
García-Rulfo was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He grew up on a ranch in Jalisco, where he learned to ride horses. At one point, he went to Vermont to study English.
He attended Universidad del Valle de Atemajac where he majored in communications before he realized his interest in filmmaking. He studied at the New York Film Academy, but decided to return to Mexico to continue his acting career.
