Cayetana Guillén Cuervo

Cayetana Guillén Cuervo (Madrid, 13 June 1969) is a Spanish actress, journalist and TV presenter. Her parents, Fernando Guillén and Gemma Cuervo, and her brother, Fernando are also actors.[1]

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Guillén and the second or maternal family name is Cuervo.

Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
Cayetana Guillén Cuervo at Premios Goya 2017
Born	Cayetana Guillen Cuervo (1969-06-13) 13 June 1969 Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Education	Complutense University of Madrid
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1986-present
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.66 m)
Spouse(s)	Omar Ayyashi Ramino ​ ( m. 2005)
Children	1
Relatives	Fernando Guillén (father) Gemma Cuervo (mother) Fernando Guillén Cuervo (brother)
Website	www.cayetanaguillencuervo.com

She studied Communication Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid and, since 1998, she has been the presenter of a weekly program on Televisión Española, Versión Española, where a Spanish-language movie is shown and discussed.

Professional career

Cayetana began her acting career at the end of the 1980s, first in television and in theatre soon after. She debuted in 1986 with a small role in the television series Segunda enseñanza,[2] written by Ana Diosdado and directed by Pedro Masó.

In 1987 she played a small role in the theatre production Coqueluche by Roberto Romero.[3] During the following years, Cayetana dedicated herself to theatre but with occasional appearances in television programmes as well as series from the 1990s onwards. Her first appearance on the big screen was in 1989 in La luna negra, directed by Imanol Uribe.

At the beginning of the 1990s she starred in four different theatre plays: Entre bobos anda el juego (1991) and Thriller imposible (1992)[4] were both produced by the theatre company Strion; later on she would also appear in La gran sultana (1993)[5] and Fuenteovejuna (1993),[6] produced by the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico.

Her appearances in theatre lessened in the second half of the 1990s, and she devoted herself to the film industry. In this successful period Cayetana worked on the well-known films All About My Mother, The Wound of Light and The Grandfather where she worked with her father. Thanks to her role in The Wound of Light, which was nominated for the Academy Award, she was nominated for the Spanish Goya Award for Best Actress.

She made her debut as a TV presenter in 1998 in the national television channel Televisión Española. She also works as a presenter in culture programmes on this channel, or more specifically, Seventh-Art programmes like Versión Española, running from 1998, where she interviewed the members of the technical and artistic team of a film that had been displayed before.[7]

In the 2000s and 2010s, she works both as a TV presenter and actress (film industry and theatre), as well as a journalist in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.

Since 2015, she has played the main role of Irene Larra in the successful television series El Ministerio del Tiempo.[8]

In 2016 she participated in the worldwide known show MasterChef Celebrity, in the first edition.[9] Miguel Ángel Muñoz was the winner and Guillén Cuervo the runner-up.[10][11]

In 2018 she participated in Cero en Historia, TV show hosted by Joaquín Reyes.[12]

Filmography

Film

Year	Movie	Director
2012	Una pistola en cada mano	Cesc Gay
2009	Buen viaje	Irene Zoe Alameda
2004	La mirada violeta	Jesus Ruiz Nacho Pérez de la Paz
2004	Amor idiota	Ventura Pons
2001	Fumata Blanca	Miguel García Borda
1999	All about my mother	Pedro Almodóvar
1998	Sí, quiero...	Eneko Olasagasti Carlos Zabala
1998	El abuelo	José Luis Garci
1997	Hazlo por mí	Ángel Fernández Santos
1997	Atómica (película)	Menkes Albacete
1996	La herida luminosa	José Luis Garci
1996	Más que amor frenesí	Bardem Menkes Albacete
1994	Historias del Kronen	Montxo Armendáriz
1989	La luna negra	Imanol Uribe

Television

Year	Series	Role
1986	Segunda enseñanza	Brigitte
1994	Historias de la puta mili
1994–1995	Colegio mayor
1996	Yo, una mujer	Paula
1998–present	Versión española	Presenter
2000	Raquel busca su sitio	Quela
2004	18th Goya Awards	Host (with Diego Luna)
2005	Lobos	Carmen Lobo
2007	D-calle	Presenter
2008-2011	Días de cine	Presenter
2009-2010	Amar en tiempos revueltos	Estela del Val
2013–present	¡Atención obras!	Presenter
2015–present	El Ministerio del Tiempo	Irene Larra
2016	Masterchef Celebrity	Contestant Runner-up
2018	Cero en Historia

Stage

Year	Play	Role
1987	Coqueluche	Girl
1993	Fuenteovejuna	Pascuala
1993	La gran sultana	Woman
2013	Fuegos	Marguerite Yourcenar
2013-2014	The Misunderstanding	Marta
2015	Hedda Gabler	Hedda Gabler

Awards

• Premio del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos for El abuelo.[13]
• Premio en la Mostra de Cine de Valencia a la mejor interpretación femenina for Hazlo por mi.

References

1. "Cayetana Guillén Cuervo - películas, fotos, noticias, vídeos". hoycinema.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 August 2010.
2. Roi, Maribel Escalona. ""Soy una mujer pluriempleada"". Diez Minutos (in Spanish). Hearst Magazines International. Archived from the original on 13 September 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
3. Harto Tecglen, Eduardo (2 June 1987). "Una debutante que prolonga una dinastía". El País (in Spanish). PRISA. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
4. "La imposibilidad de un Thriller imposible en el Centro Cultural de la Villa". ABC (in Spanish). Vocento. 27 May 1992. p. 102. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
5. Torres, Rosana (22 November 1993). "El teatro clásico despierta el interés de los jóvenes". El País (in Spanish). PRISA. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
6. López Sancho, Loreno (20 January 1993). ""Fuente Ovejuna", al gusto de la Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico". ABC (in Spanish). Vocento. p. 86. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
7. García Gómez, Rosario (25 September 1998). "Cayetana Guillén presentará el espacio de cine de La 2 'Versión española'". El País (in Spanish). Madrid: PRISA. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
8. Arias, Maria José (31 May 2017). "Cayetana Guillén Cuervo: "El Ministerio es más una serie de aventuras en esta tercera entrega"". Público (in Spanish). Display Connectors, SL. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
9. Rosado, Juan Carlos (12 December 2016). "Cayetana Guillén Cuervo: "'Masterchef' es lo más duro a lo que me he enfrentado"". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Grupo Zeta. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
10. Moreno, Adrián (14 December 2016). "Miguel Ángel Muñoz, ganador de 'MasterChef Celebrity'". Cadena SER (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
11. Pérez Ruiz de Elvira, Álvaro (14 December 2016). "Miguel Ángel Muñoz gana 'MasterChef Celebrity'". El País (in Spanish). Madrid: PRISA. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
12. "Cayetana Guillén Cuervo y Leticia Dolera serán jueces en lo nuevo de 'Cero en historia'". El Economista (in Spanish). Editorial Ecoprensa, S.A. 7 February 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
13. "::: CEC ::: Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos". www.cinecec.com. Retrieved 2017-05-16.

External links

• Cayetana Guillén Cuervo on IMDb
• Articles about Cayetana Guillén Cuervo at El País (in Spanish)