Actress and theater producer. With a career in theater, television, and film, and an Academy Award nominee.
Her film credits include titles such as “A Wonderful World” (Dir. Luis Estrada); “Side Effects”, in which she stars; “La Zona” (Dir. Rodrigo Plá); “Five Days Without Nora” (Dir. Mariana Chenillo); ‘How to Dump Your Jerk’ (Dir. Gabriela Tagliavini); “This Isn’t Berlin” (Dir. Hari Sama); “The Paradise of Invention” (Dir. Lorena Maza); “Heartbeat” (Dir. Katina Medina Mora), presented at the 21st edition of the Morelia International Film Festival, and “The Scent of Freshly Cut Grass” (Dir. Celina Murga), which was set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York,
One of her most notable films is “Roma” (Dir. Alfonso Cuarón), in which she co-stars with Yalitza Aparicio. It premiered at the Venice International Film Festival (2018) and won awards including the Golden Globe, the Critics’ Choice Awards, the Goya Awards, the BAFTA Awards, and the Academy Awards. For her role as Marina, she earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress (2019), competing against actors such as Amy Adams and Emma Stone. She won the Ariel Award for Best Actress (2019) and was nominated for the Platino Awards in the Best Female Performance category (2019).
On television, She has appeared in productions such as “Los Simuladores” (Sony Pictures Television), “Las Aparicio” (Argos Comunicación), “Capadocia” (HBO), “Ingobernable” (Netflix), “El Señor de los Cielos” (Telemundo), “Falco” (Prime Video), and “Now and Then” (Apple TV).
She has extensive experience in theater. She made her debut in the play “Happy New Century, Dr. Freud”, by Sabina Berman, and to date has appeared in dozens of productions, including plays by authors such as Bertolt Brecht, Ximena Escalante, and David Hevia, and titles such as “Seven Doors”, “Under the Beaver’s Skin”, “Photograph on the Beach”, “Someone Is Coming” and “For the Pleasure of Dying Under the Volcano”.
Together with Enrique Singer, she founded Incidente Teatro, a theater company with which they have staged works such as “Tradition”, by Harold Pinter; “Crimes of the Heart”, by Beth Henley; “La Mujer Justa”, by Hugo Urquijo; “The Anarchist”, by David Mamet, and “Consent”, by Nina Raine—a production nominated for the 2023 Metro Awards in the category of Audience Choice Award for Theater Experience of the Year —and “A Streetcar Named Desire” directed by Diego del Río, a production that earned her a nomination for Best Female Lead in a Play at the Metro Awards (2024).
