A Cuban theatre, film and television actress. She graduated at the National School of Arts in Havana, Cuba in 1992 and at the International School of Gesture and Image ‘La Mancha’ in Santiago de Chile in 2000. She started her professional career with the Cuban film director Fernando Pérez in the films Hello Heminway and Madagascar. She has taken part in other film projects such as José Sanjurjo’s Amores and Historias Clandestinas de La Habana by the Argentinian director Diego Musiak and more recently in the Cuban films El Beny and El cuerno de la Abundancia by the Cuban directors Jorge Luis Sánchez and Juan Carlos Tabío. She has had a successful career in the theatre with some of the most important directors of this medium in Cuba, also making incursions in theatrical directing and teaching both inside her country and abroad. She has been awarded numerous performing prizes such as Premio Coral to the best actress at the XII International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana in December 1990, the Prize to the best actress in the 11th Atlantic Film Festival in Canada in 1991, the recognition of Italian Film Societies (ARCI NOVA) at the XVI International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, as well as a nomination to the ACE awards (Asociación de Cronistas de Espectáculos) in New York for her performance in Fernando Pérez’s Madagascar. In her country she has been awarded several times the acting prize “Caricato”, given by the National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists as a recognition of her works in film, theatre and television.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca
