Blanca Portillo

Blanca Portillo
Born 15 June 1963 (1963-06-15) (age 48)
Madrid, Spain
Occupation Actress

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

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Career

Portillo started as an actress in several small theater productions before graduating in drama from the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramatico.

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 film debut in Entre rojas (1995). In 1996, Luis San Narciso cast her for the Telecinco TV series 7 vidas, where she played the role of Carlota[1]. The series lasted for ten years. Portillo was nominated for the Goya Awards and Unión de Actores Awards for her role in El color de las nubes in 1997.

She also participated in the Castilian dubbing of Finding Nemo. In spite of her success in TV and movies, she has never left theater 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).

She played a masculine role in the 2005 film Alatriste, based in a book by Arturo Pérez Reverte[2]. The following year, Pedro Almodóvar called her to play the role of Agustina in his 2006 film Volver. She took part in Goya's Ghosts by Milos Forman and Gracia Querejeta's film Seven Billiard Tables. In 2009, she featured again in a film by Pedro Almodóvar, Broken Embraces.

Filmography

Theatre

Actress

Director

TV

Films

Year Film Director
2010 Biutiful Alejandro González Iñárritu
2009 Los Abrazos Rotos Pedro Almodóvar
2007 Siete mesas de billar francés Gracia Querejeta
2006 Alatriste Agustín Díaz Yanes
2006 Volver Pedro Almodóvar
2006 Goya's Ghosts Milos Forman
2005 Elsa y Fred Marcos Carnevale
2003 Finding Nemo (voice / Spanish version) Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
2001 Sólo mía Javier Balaguer
1997 El color de las nubes Mario Camus

Awards

2006 Cannes Film Festival

Best actress shared with Penélope Cruz, Chus Lampreave, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas and Yohana Cobo.[3]

Goya Awards
Candidatura al premio de Mejor Actriz Revelación (1997). Unión de Actores

Fotogramas de Plata

References

  1. ^ Javier Cámara y Blanca Portillo hablan de "7 vidas"
  2. ^ make me a man: Alatriste
  3. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Volver". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4332959/year/2006.html. Retrieved 2009-12-13.