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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1968-11-05 (56 years old)

Place of Birth

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

Biography:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

Best known for playing dramatic roles in Spain, Sánchez-Gijón is known in the United States 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 Chavarri'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).

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Known For

Acting

2025

The Low Land as Carmen Membrado

2024

The First Look as Self - Narrator (voice)
Breathless as Pilar Amaro
La Revuelta as Self - Guest

2023

2022

Martínez y hermanos as Self - Guest

2021

Fish Bones as Carmen

2020

Alex's Strip as Vera
Velvet Colección: Grand Finale as Blanca Soto Fernández
Anatomy of a Dandy as Self - Narrator (voice)

2018

2017

The Velvet Collection as Blanca Soto
Estoy vivo as Comisaria Verónica "Vero" Ruiz

2015

Teresa as Doña Jimena

2014

The Misfits Club as Madre de Valeria
Velvet as Blanca Soto

2011

Maktub as Beatriz
La muerte de Otilia Ruiz as Blanca Lupino
Drifters as Vima

2010

2009

The Frost as Rita

2008

2007

The Nautical Chart as Tánger Soto
Express Oviedo as Mariola Mayo

2006

2004

2003

2001

1999

Volaverunt as Duquesa de Alba
Jealousy as Carmen
Yerma as Yerma

1998

1997

1996

1995

A Walk in the Clouds as Victoria Aragón
Mouth to Mouth as Amanda
The Frontier Law as Bárbara Miller Molina
La Regenta as Ana Ozores

1994

1993

1992

1991

El crimen de Perpignan as Yvette Romero

1990

The Monk as Sister Ines

1989

1988

1987

Redondela as Luisa Peña

1986

Crew