Ángela Molina

Ángela Molina Tejedor (born 5 October 1955) is a Spanish actress, and a daughter of Antonio Molina, Spanish singer and actor.

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Molina and the second or maternal family name is Tejedor.
Ángela Molina
Molina in 2007
Born
Ángela Molina Tejedor

(1955-10-05) 5 October 1955
Madrid, Spain
OccupationActress
Years active1975–present
Children5
Parent(s)

Career

Molina studied dance and theater art in the Escuela Superior de Madrid. She rose to international prominence after starring in Luis Buñuel's last film That Obscure Object of Desire.

She has worked with such directors as Luis Buñuel, Ridley Scott, Giuseppe Tornatore, Pedro Almodóvar, Lina Wertmüller, Sergio Castellitto, Jaime de Armiñán, José Luis Borau, Jaime Chávarri and Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón.

In 1985, she became the first foreign actress to win the Italian cinematographic David di Donatello prize. She was awarded the prize for Best Actress at the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival in 1987 for her role in Half of Heaven. She was also repeatedly nominated for the Goya Awards (Spanish cinematographic awards).

In 1999, she was the Head of the Jury at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

Selected filmography
gollark: No, you did not do it right.
gollark: Anyway, I think the problem is that `tracks` is meant to be an array.
gollark: Why did you make it *only* read 16 bytes of data?!
gollark: I thought about this at a rate of 0.7 Hz per square metre, and decided that 8KiB was good enough even with a really wasteful metadata format.
gollark: Well, you'd add both if you think `length` is better, and want to support old reader code.

References
  1. "Berlinale: 1999 Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2012-01-28.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.