Blanca Portillo

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Blanca Portillo (Madrid,June 15, 1963 ) is a Spanish actress.

She started as an actress in several small theatre aficionado productions before graduating in drama in the RESAD.

One of her most important performances afterwards was her role of Carol in Oleanna by David Mamet, directed by Joaquín Kremel in 1994 .

She made her movie début in the film Entre rojas, and she was nominated to the Goya Awards and Unión de Actores Awards for her role in El color de las nubes in 1997 and Luis San Naricso cast her for the Tele5 TV series 7 vidas, where she played the role of Carlota. She also participated in the Castillian dubbing of Finding Nemo. In spite of her success in TV and movies, she has never left theatre and she has taken part in several plays both as an actress and as a director.

In 2003, she joined the Spanish Protests against the Iraq War (No a la guerra) movement.

In 2004, she left 7 vidas to undertake the Argentine theatrical project La hija del aire (Air’s Daughter) based in a book by Calderón de la Barca. She combined this play with the film Elsa y Fred (2005).

Back to Spain, she staged this play and some more in Madrid and she played a masculine role in the 2005 film Alatriste, based in a book by Arturo Pérez Reverte.

After that, Pedro Almodóvar called her to play the role of Agustina in his 2006 film Volver. She took part of Goya's Ghosts by Milos Forman and Gracia Querejeta’s film Siete mesas (de billar francés).

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[edit] Theatre

Actress

Hamelin (2005).
La hija del viento (2004-2005).
Desorientados (2003)
Como en las mejores familias (2003).
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2002)
El matrimonio de Bostón (2001)
Madre, el drama padre (1998)
No hay burlas para el amor (1998).
Un fénix demasiado frecuente (1997)
Esclavos (1997)
Mujeres frente al espejo (1996)
El embrujado (1995)
Un bala perdida (1995)
Terror y miseria del Tercer Reich (1995)
Oleanna (1994)
Las troyanas (1993)
Marat-Dade (1992)
Cuento de invierno (1992)
Lope de Aguirre, traidor (1988)
El mal de la juventud (1985)
Bodas de sangre (1994)

Director

Siglo XX... que estás en los cielos (2006)
Desorientados (2004)
Shakespeare a pedazos (1999)
Hay amores que hablan (1997)

[edit] TV

7 vidas (1999-2004).

[edit] Films

Year	Film	Director
2006	Siete mesas (de billar francés	Gracia Querejeta
2006	Alatriste	Agustín Díaz Yanes
2006	Volver	Pedro Almodóvar
2006	Los fantasmas de Goya	Milos Forman
2005	Elsa y Fred	Marcos Carnevale
2003	Finding Nemo (voice)	Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
2001	Sólo mía	Javier Balaguer
1997	El color de las nubes	Mario Camus