Catalina Sandino Moreno
Catalina Sandino Moreno ( born April 19, 1981 in Bogotá ) is a Colombian actress. She was known for her Oscar-nominated role of María Álvarez in Maria Full of Grace ( 2004).
Biography
Catalina Sandino Moreno discovered at an early age her talent for the theater. 1997 as they are still in high school, met the daughter of a pathologist to Ruben Di Pietro theater academy in Bogotá. During the next four years she was here, among others, in the pieces Acuerdo para Cambiar de Casa by Griselda Cambaro, Tennessee Williams' The Dark Room and see Christopher Durand's Laughing Wild. Next to the theater Moreno studied out of school advertising in Bogota.
2003, the 1.69 meter tall actress made a breakthrough when she received the lead role for Joshua Marston's film Maria Full of Grace ( 2004). In the Spanish-language drama, which was nominated among other things, for the Golden Globe for best foreign film, personified Sandino Moreno, the 17- year-old María Álvarez, which agrees with two friends, cocaine from Colombia to the United States to smuggle. For her first and so far only role Moreno was awarded jointly with the later Oscar winner Charlize Theron with the Silver Bear at the International Film Festival in Berlin in 2004. A year later, she was nominated as the first Colombian ever for an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was also awarded among others with the Satellite Awards and the Independent Spirit Award.
After this great success Sandino Moreno moved to New York and studied acting at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute which has already celebrated thespians like Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino studied. Your New York stage debut in William Shakespeare's play King John, a production of the Frog & Peach Theatre Company.
In 2006, she played her next movie role as Angie in the thriller on the edge of the night with Brendan Fraser. In the same year she was in the film Paris, je t'aime as Ana to see and got a supporting role in Richard Linklater drama Fast Food Nation, which was represented in the competition of the 59th International Film Festival of Cannes. In 2007 she took over the role of Hildebranda in the novel adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera directed by Mike Newell. In 2008, she starred opposite Benicio del Toro in the two-part biopic Che - to see Guerrilla, directed by Steven Soderbergh in the role of Aleida March - Revolucion and Che. In 2010 she played a supporting role as the vampire Maria in the international hit movie Eclipse - The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third film adaptation of the novel of the Bis (s ) series by Stephenie Meyer.
On April 15, 2006, she married the electrician David Elwell, with whom she had a relationship since 2004. The couple met during the filming of Maria Full of Grace know, working on the set Elwell.
Filmography
- 2004: Maria Full of Grace ( Maria Full of Grace)
- 2006: On the Edge of Night ( Journey to the End of the Night )
- 2006: Paris, je t'aime
- 2006: Fast Food Nation
- 2006: The Hottest State
- 2007: The Earth as close (El corazón de la tierra )
- 2007: Love in the Time of Cholera ( Love in the Time of Cholera )
- 2008: Che - Revolución ( Che - Part One: The Argentine)
- 2008: Che - Guerrilla ( Che - Part Two: Guerrilla )
- 2010: Eclipse - Bis (s ) Eclipse ( The Twilight Saga: Eclipse)
- 2011: Cristiada