Catalina Sandino Moreno

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Catalina Sandino Moreno
Born Catalina Sandino
April 19, 1981 (1981-04-19) (age 27)
Bogotá, Colombia
Years active (2004-Present)
Spouse(s) David Elwell (2006-present)

Catalina Sandino Moreno (born April 19, 1981) is an Academy Award-nominated Colombian actress.

Sandino was born in Bogotá, Colombia to a pathologist mother and a cattle breeder/veterinarian father.[1][2] Before becoming an actress, she studied advertising at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. She relocated to New York City in 2004, after she was "discovered" at the Rubén Di Pietro acting school in Bogotá. She was then referred to a casting audition for the 2004 film Maria Full of Grace where she beat over 900 girls for the lead role. Sandino's role in this movie made her the first Colombian nominated for an Academy Award and 2nd Latin American Actress.

Sandino has lived with motion picture electrician David Elwell from 2004 to the present, whom she met working on Maria Full of Grace. She married him on 15 April 2006 in a small ceremony held in Cartagena de Indias.[3] She was in New York when she heard on TV that she was nominated for Best Actress in the 2004 Oscar race for her role in Maria Full of Grace.

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Awards
Berlin Film Festival
Preceded by
Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore
for The Hours
Silver Bear for Best Actress
2004
for Maria full of Grace
(tied with Charlize Theron for Monster)
Succeeded by
Julia Jentsch
for Sophie Scholl - The Final Days