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Biography
Born in January, 1969, daughter of a prestigious lawyer, she grew
up studying singing, dancing and the violin. She even appeared
occasionally singing with her two brothers in a group called
"Matamala" ("Bad Kill"). At 17 she appeared on the cover of an
avant-garde Catalonian magazine, and from there she began working
in local theatre companies and later on local Catalonian TV
channels, including giving Spanish language classes on Canal 33. It
was here she caught the eye of Bigas Luna, which led to Luna, her
first film, and thus her future was set. It was in 1991 that she
became well known in the film Amo tu Cama Rica, a comedy with
Javier Bardem, consolidated a year later in Fernando Trueba's
romantic comedy Belle Époque, starring Penélope Cruz. However her
better and more serious roles appeared from the mid-nineties
onwards, and she showed she was able to take on the most difficult
parts, most notably in Malena es un Nombre de Tango and Lágrimas
Negras. She also had time to do a few theatre productions in
Catalonia, such as Chekhov's "The Seagull," among other plays. She
has a daughter, Violeta, named after her character in Belle Époque,
born from her romance with the scenery-maker and also director
David Trueba, brother of Fernando. She is extremely interested in
working in Iberamerican cinema and has already worked in Argentina.
To date she has shown she is an extremely versatile actress, such
that she is known here in Spain as the actress for "impossible
roles." Much now depends on whether she can be offered the right
parts so that she can continue to develop as a serious character
actress.
Biography courtesy of the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com).
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Ariadna Gil
