Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

Aitana Sánchez-Gijón de Angelis (born 5 November 1968 in Rome, Italy) is a Spanish film actress.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Sánchez-Gijón and the second or maternal family name is de Angelis.
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Sánchez-Gijón at the 31st Goya Awards in 2017
Born
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón de Angelis[1]

(1968-11-05) 5 November 1968
Rome, Italy
OccupationActress
Years active1986–present
Spouse(s)
Guillermo Papim Luccadane
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(m. 2002)​
Children2

She was born in Rome, to father Ángel Sánchez-Gijón Martínez, a history professor, and Italian mother, Fiorella de Angelis, a mathematics professor. She grew up in Spain.

Best known for playing dramatic roles in Spain, Sánchez-Gijón first became known internationally for her portrayal of Victoria Aragon, a pregnant and abandoned Mexican-American winegrower's daughter who is helped by travelling salesman Paul Sutton (Keanu Reeves) in A Walk in the Clouds (1995).

She has since built a reputation as an international star in films such as Manuel Gomez Pereira's Boca a Boca (1996), Bigas Luna's The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997), Jaime Chávarri's Sus Ojos Se Cerraron (1998), Gabriele Salvatores' adaptation of the Niccolò Ammaniti novel I'm Not Scared (2003) and Brad Anderson's The Machinist (2004).

She was the president of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain between 1998 and 2000.[2]

Atiana Sánchez Gijón with Mario Vargas Llosa, actor and writer of "Los cuentos de la peste", Teatro Español, Madrid (2015)

Selected filmography

References
  1. Full name
  2. Rocío García (30 November 1998). "Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, elegida presidenta de la Academia de Cine por unanimidad". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  3. "Conquistadores Adventvm". Movistar+ (in Spanish). 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2018.


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