Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
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.jpg) Sánchez-Gijón at the 31st Goya Awards in 2017 | |
| Born | Aitana Sánchez-Gijón de Angelis[1] 5 November 1968 Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1986 – present |
| Spouse |
Guillermo Papim Luccadane
(m. 2002) |
| Children | 2 |
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón de Angelis (born 5 November 1968 in Rome, Italy) is a Spanish film actress.
She was born in Rome, to father Ángel Sánchez-Gijón Martínez, a history professor, and Italian mother, Fiorella de Angelis, a mathematics professor. She grew up in Spain.
Best known for playing dramatic roles in Spain, Sánchez-Gijón first became known internationally for her portrayal of Victoria Aragon, a pregnant and abandoned Mexican-American winegrower's daughter who is helped by travelling salesman Paul Sutton (Keanu Reeves) in A Walk in the Clouds (1995).
She has since built a reputation as an international star in films such as Manuel Gomez Pereira's Boca a Boca (1996), Bigas Luna's The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997), Jaime Chávarri's Sus Ojos Se Cerraron (1998), Gabriele Salvatores' adaptation of the Niccolò Ammaniti novel I'm Not Scared (2003) and Brad Anderson's The Machinist (2004).
She was the president of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain between 1998 and 2000.[2]
Selected filmography
- Romanza final (Gayarre) (1986)
- Bajarse al moro (1989)
- A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
- Boca a Boca (1996)
- The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997)
- Love Walked In (1997)
- Sus Ojos Se Cerraron (1998)
- Jealousy (1999)
- My Sweet (2001)
- I'm Not Scared (2003)
- The Machinist (2004)
- The Whore and the Whale (2004)
- The Backwoods (2006)
- The Nautical Chart (2007)
- Oviedo Express (2007)
- Tell Me About Love (2008)
- The Frost (2009)
- Maktub (2011)
- Conquistadores: Adventvm (2017) as Isabel de Castilla on Cero[3]
- Thi Mai, Rumbo a VietNam (2018)
External links
References
- ^ Full name
- ^ Rocío García (30 November 1998). "Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, elegida presidenta de la Academia de Cine por unanimidad". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ "Conquistadores Adventvm". Movistar+ (in Spanish). 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
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