Ariel Caldarelli (Montevideo, 1959) is a Uruguayan actor, theater director, teacher, musician and writer. He began his training in 1982 at the Municipal School of Dramatic Art. In 1993 he wrote the film Pepita the Holster, and he has performed in several other films, including In This Tricky Life (2001), Giant (2009), and The Silence of the Sky (2016).