Mariana Peñalva
| Mariana Peñalva | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mariana Dominguez Peñalva Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Website | |
| http://mariana-penalva.blogspot.com | |
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[edit] Biography
Actress Mariana Dominguez Peñalva was born in Mexico City, daughter of Mexican painter and Mexican opera singer.
At an early age she moved to Cuernavaca, where she first studied acting with Esther Orozco. By the age of 17 she started her professional acting career with the Mexican Telenovela Mirada de mujer as Andrea, which was a complete success in Mexican television.
Later she studied acting in Centro de formacion Actoral with Héctor Mendoza y Raul quintanilla.
She got her first approach to films, when she was asked to be Angelina Jolie's camera double at Original Sin.
In 2000 she travels to Europe and establish in France to finish her degree in Arts, in the almost 4 years she spent in Europe she got the opportunity to work in some Independent Films such as Girl with a Pearl Earring with Scarlett Johansson.
At her return to Mexico she worked in some Mexican television programs like La vida es una Cancion, Heredera, Tormenta en el paraíso and El Pantera.
She also worked in nine short films, some of theme participated in renamed international film festivals around the world. She won an Award as Best Actress for the short film 1956 in the Proyeccion Corta Film Festival in 2010.
In 2007 she got the opportunity to make her first role in the blockbuster Mexican film Tear This Heart Out as Mercedes, working with the renowned Mexican actor Daniel Giménez Cacho and Ana Claudia Talancón with whom she worked again recently at the Mexican TV series Terminales as Vanessa.
In 2008 she obtained her first starring role in the independent film Written in Blood as Nina, where she co-starred with Carlos Ortega and the Uruguayan actress Cecilia Cósero.
In the present she is support actress in the feature film Return, produced and directed by Mexican film director Alejandro González Padilla, where she will be sharing credits along the renowned actor Jaime Camil, Blanca Soto, Daniela Schmidt, Victor Huggo Martin and the Spanish actor Javier Tolosa, this film is actually contesting in the 2010 Edition of the New York International Latino Film Festival and earned the Award of the Best Entertaining Picture at the Monaco Charity Film Festival in its 2010 edition.
Mariana Peñalva is on talks for the proyect called The Wardrobe's Cabinetmaker and My Friend The Death for 2011 and 2 more projects in the female leading role character, one to be partially shoot at Paris.
[edit] Filmography
- Regresa (2008) .... Isabel
- Written in Blood (2008) .... Nina
- Arrancame la vida (2007) .... Mercedes
- Girl with a Pearl Earring (2002) .... Girl at the church
- Original Sin (2000) .... Angeline Jolie double
[edit] Television
- Bienes Raíces (2010) TV Series .... School Director
- Terminales (2008) TV Series .... Vanessa
- El Pantera (2008) TV Series .... Restaurant Manager
- Tormenta en el paraíso (2008) Telenovela ....Joven Micaela
- La vida es una cancion (2004) TV series .... Veronica, Julieta, Angeles, etc.
- Heredera (2004) Telenovela .... Enfermera
- Perla (1997–1998) Telenovela .... Regina
- Mirada de mujer (1997) Telenovela .... Andrea
