Patricia Castañeda

Infobox actor


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birthdate = February 16, 1976
birthplace = Cali, Colombia

Patricia Castañeda (born February 16, 1976) is a Colombian actress.

Castañeda was born in the town of Cali, Colombia. While in school, Castañeda was asked to audition for a kids show called la Brujula Magica she got the part and hosted the show for over 4 years and quit the studies in Architecture. After that she landed the lead character in the TV Series Tiempos Dificiles and was nominee for best actress in the Cartagena Film Festival. Festival de Cine de Cartagena. She then moved to New York City and studied acting in HB Studio for 3 years at the same time that she took creative writing courses with Robert Auleta in School of Visual Arts.

Caracol TV called her back to join the cast of the years best comedy Pecados Capitales. Then came the lead role in La Saga, la Tormenta and her fist film: Otros directed by Oscar Campo. In 2006 was cast as Valeria, a small role in the movie Satanas directed by Andi Baiz, the reporter in the short film Ciudad Cronica which won Bogota Film Festival, and Grand Lady in the Film "Love in the Time of Cholera" directed by Mike Newell.

Her first writing pieces was for the school paper. Her second published story was story-article she srote for the magazine Soho in Colombia and then was asked to have her own column: El Closet. On 2005 she wrote her first book "Manual para Salir de la Tusa" -Guide to get over heart breaks- a funny and satirical piece, published by Editorial Norma. Sporadical articicles for Hews Papere and magazine came a long until the New Paper El Pais published one short story -El Palo de Golf- which later made part of a series of 10 shorty stories -La noche del Demonio- trans The Night of the Demon, published in 2007 by Villegas Editores.

Filmography

* "Tiempos Dificiles" (1996)
* "Pecados Capitales" (2002)
* "La Saga" (2004)
* "La Tormenta" (2006)

MOVIES
* "Satanas" Dir. Andres Baiz Ochoa (2006)
* "Love in the Time of Cholera" Dir Mike Newell (2006)

External links

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*myspace|patriciacastaneda