Blanca Portillo

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location = Madrid, Spain
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occupation = Actress
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awards = Silver Seashell Award for Best Actress
2007 "Seven Billiard Tables"
Spanish Actors Union Award for Best Supporting Female
2007 "Volver"
Spanish Actors Union Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Series
2001 "7 vidas"
Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award
2006 "Volver"

Blanca Portillo (born June 15 1963) is a Spanish actress.

Career

Portillo started as an actress in several small theater productions before graduating in drama from the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramatico.

One of her most important performances afterwards was her role of Carol in "Oleanna" by David Mamet, directed by Joaquín Kremel in 1994 .

She made her film debut in "Entre rojas" (1995). In 1996, Luis San Naricso cast her for the Tele5 TV series "7 vidas", where she played the role of Carlota. The series lasted for ten years. Portillo was nominated for the Goya Awards and Unión de Actores Awards for her role in "El color de las nubes" in 1997.

She also participated in the Castilian dubbing of "Finding Nemo". In spite of her success in TV and movies, she has never left theater and she has taken part in several plays both as an actress and as a director.

In 2003, she joined the Spanish Protests against the Iraq War ("No a la guerra") movement.

In 2004, she left "7 vidas" to undertake the Argentine theatrical project "La hija del aire" ("Air’s Daughter") based in a book by Calderón de la Barca. She combined this play with the film "Elsa y Fred" (2005).

She played a masculine role in the 2005 film Alatriste, based in a book by Arturo Pérez Reverte.

After that, Pedro Almodóvar called her to play the role of Agustina in his 2006 film " Volver". She took part of "Goya's Ghosts" by Milos Forman and Gracia Querejeta’s film "Seven Billiard Tables".

Filmography

Theatre

Actress
*"Barroco" (2007)
*"Hamelin" (2005).
*"La hija del viento" (2004-2005).
*"Desorientados" (2003)
*"Como en las mejores familias" (2003).
*" A Midsummer Night's Dream" (2002)
*" El matrimonio de Bostón" (2001)
*"Madre, el drama padre" (1998)
*"No hay burlas para el amor" (1998).
*"Un fénix demasiado frecuente" (1997)
*"Esclavos" (1997)
*"Mujeres frente al espejo" (1996)
*" El embrujado" (1995)
*"Un bala perdida" (1995)
*"Terror y miseria del Tercer Reich" (1995)
*"Oleanna" (1994)
*"Las troyanas" (1993)
*"Marat-Dade" (1992)
*"Cuento de invierno" (1992)
*"Lope de Aguirre, traidor" (1988)
*"El mal de la juventud" (1985)
*"Bodas de sangre" (1994)

Director
*Siglo XX... que estás en los cielos (2006)
*"Desorientados" (2004)
*"Shakespeare a pedazos" (1999)
*"Hay amores que hablan" (1997)

TV

*7 vidas (1999-2004).

Films

Awards

Cannes Film Festival
2006: Best actress shared with Penélope Cruz, Chus Lampreave, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas and Yohana Cobo.
Goya Awards Candidatura al premio de Mejor Actriz Revelación (1997).
Unión de Actores
*Mejor actriz de teatro (2004).
*Mejor actriz secundaria de teatro (2003)
*Candidata al Premio a la Mejor Actriz de Televisión (2002).
*Mejor intérprete de teatro de reparto (1997)
Fotogramas de Plata
*Candidata al premio de Mejor Actriz de Teatro (2003).

External links

* [http://www.blancaportillo.com/ Web No Oficial]