Norma Aleandro
Norma Aleandro ( born 2 May 1936 in Buenos Aires, Norma Aleandro Robledo actually ) is an Argentine actress, playwright and theater director. Through a successful, decades -long stage career and appearances in over 40 feature films, she is considered the " Grande Dame" of the Argentine theater and cinema.
Biography
Education and work as a theater actress
Norma Aleandro was born in 1936 in Buenos Aires as Norma Aleandro Robledo in a theatrical family. As the daughter of actor couple María Luisa Robledo (1912-2005), a native Madrilenian, and Pedro Aleandro (1910-1985) they began with nine years to perform with the parental theater group. María Vaner (1935-2008), one year older, her sister, was also a famous actress in Argentina. With 13 years matured in Aleandro the desire also to take the drama profession. In it she was encouraged by her maternal grandmother.
After studying acting became Aleandro, having appeared in well-known Spanish pieces of Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina, classical stage productions of Euripides and Molière or more modern materials of Ingmar Bergman ( Scenes from a Marriage ), Terrence McNally ( Master Class, 1997), Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill ( long Day's journey into Night ) and Tennessee Williams as one of the leading South American actresses and the " Grande Dame" of the Argentinian theater. Although she herself considers to be " born clown ," the actress gladly exchanged between comedic, dramatic or tragic roles. She prefers it to embody small but complex characters: "I like characters that are different from my personality ," says Aleandro. In parallel with the work on the stage, where she also worked as a director and playwright, she started from the early 1950s, in films such as Leo Fleiders La muerte en las calles (1952 ) to gain a foothold in the Argentine cinema. From the early 1960s Aleandro appeared regularly in the Argentine television series in appearance.
Exile and return to Argentina
In the early 1970s, Norma Aleandro began increasingly to act in movie productions, such as in Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's drama Güemes - la tierra en armas (1971) or Sergio Renan's Oscar -nominated melodrama The Truce (1974 ), while for David Stivels Berlinale The contribution inheritance dispute (1970 ) co-wrote the screenplay. In 1976 it came to the military dictatorship in Argentina to overthrow the government and under Jorge Rafael Videla. Because of their liberal views Aleandro was forced to leave her home in June of the same year. Earlier, a tear gas explosion in a theater on Corrientes Avenue, where she prepared on the piece Sobre el Amor y Otras Cuentos and place an explosive attack on their home. Aleandro lived then to bring their house in order for 18 months in Uruguay. In 1978, she emigrated with her second husband and child for five years after Madrid, after the family had come from sales to 30,000 U.S. dollars. In the Spanish exile, had been found in the other Argentine refuge, Aleandro suffered from the separation from her family. Father and sister had stayed in Argentina, where both had disbarment. Only after the fall of the junta government, the actress in her home country ( other reportedly already in February 1981, because her son had returned to Argentina to his military service) in 1982 returned.
Two years later, she paved the lead female role in Luis Puenzos theatrical production The Official Story (1984 ), Héctor Alterio addition, with whom she worked several times in the course of their career, the breakthrough as a film actress. In the drama they can be seen as line- abiding history teacher and adoptive mother Alicia, who begins to suspect that the biological parents of their daughter could be one of the many under the military dictatorship in Argentina "disappeared". The haunting psychological study, which was celebrated by Puenzos consistent combination of the private and the policy of the criticism as a piece of cinematic work of mourning over a destiny and a nation at the same time, brought his leading lady together with Cher ( Mask ) the Best Actor Award at the Film Festival of Cannes 1985 one. In addition, in 1986 won The official history of the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for best foreign-language film production, while Aleandro, highly praised by the New York Times for its " subtle " and " radiant " performance, also with the Italian David di Donatello, the New York Film Critics Circle Award and her first was of later three performers of the Argentinean film Critics Association Awards, the Cóndor de Plata of the Asociación de Críticos Cinematográficos de Argentina, considered.
Career in Hollywood and return to the Spanish-language cinema
After the success of The Official Story Norma Aleandro toured in 1985 with the piece About Love and Other Stories About Love (Original Title: Sobre el Amor y Otras Cuentos ) in New York. The one-woman show, with whom she had already gone on tour in South America, earned her the U.S. off-Broadway Obie Award for the theater season 1985 /1986. In 1987, she was at the New York Public Theater to see Mario Vargas Llosa in Senorita de Tacna, where they both in the role of a 90 -year-olds, as well as a 19 -year-old slipped. In the same year Aleandro was with Luis Mandoki Gaby - A True Story (1987 ) next to Liv Ullmann and Robert Loggia her debut English-language cinema, about the true life of cerebral paralysis Mexican Gabriella Brimmer (played by Rachel Levin ) reported that, despite their impediment to high school graduate and become successful writer. The part of the self-sacrificing children girl Florencia won her great critical acclaim and she was nominated for a 1987 Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, where they each had opposite Olympia Dukakis ( Moonstruck ) in the cold.
Other engagements in the English film and television followed in the coming years with Joel Schumacher's infidelities, Lou Antonio's entrance to hell (both 1989) or Marisa Silver's Crisis ( 1990). Although Aleandro acted in these productions alongside emerging and veteran stars like Diane Lane, Lee Remick, Isabella Rossellini or Sean Young, but she was subscribed without exception to the minor roles, whereupon it after Sergio Toledo One Man's War - Alone against the junta (1991 ) with Anthony Hopkins turned back to the spanish-language cinema. Since then she has acted in such diverse, award-winning roles such as aging Jewish woman for dating or a retired teacher with acting ambitions in Eduardo Mignognas films Sol de otoño (1996) and Cleopatra (2003), as with Alzheimer's wife and grandmother of Juan José Campanella's Oscar -nominated tragi-comedy son of the Bride (2002), as a Jewish Familienmatriarchin in Dominic Harari and Teresa Pelegris Everything I love about you, or as capricious and bankrupt Argentine Hauptstädterin from the upper middle class in Jorge Gaggeros Drama Cama adentro (both 2004). Followed in 2009 with the Part of Mrs. Van Euwen in James Ivory's City of Your Final Destination after 18 years to return to English-language cinema. The film is about an American student (played by Omar Metwally ), who travels to South America to do research for the biography of Latin American writer.
Norma Aleandro lives in Buenos Aires and is married to the psychiatrist Eduardo Le Poole. From a previous marriage to the late 1985 Oscar Ferrigno colleagues, with whom she had been to see, among other things together in the soap opera La casa de los Medina (1962), their son Oscar Ferrigno Jr. emerged. This was just like his parents, actor and stand among others in addition to Aleandro in the feature film Familia para armar (2011 ) in front of the camera. 1996 Aleandro was named an honorary citizen of their home town. She has published several literary works, including the one-act play Los chicos quieren entrar (1989) and lejanos with Puerto (2000) a collection of poems and short stories. They also include the painting of her hobbies.