Adriana Barraza

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Adriana Barraza (2009)

Adriana Barraza (born March 5, 1956 in Toluca ) is a Mexican actress and television director . In addition to her theater work, she has worked in over 30 film and television productions since the early 1990s, including both Spanish and English-language productions. She received an Oscar nomination in 2007 for her supporting role in the feature film Babel .

biography

childhood and education

The daughter of a biochemist was born in Toluca, central Mexico, and grew up with several siblings. Adriana Barraza had to give up her original desire to become a ballet dancer at the age of eight when her mother died. She came into contact with acting by chance at the age of 16 when she had the choice between basketball and the theater course as an extracurricular event at her school . Barraza, who studied classical ballet for seven years, had lived in Chihuahua with her Argentinian husband since 1974 . While her husband taught at the Philosophy Faculty of the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua , she studied acting at the School of Fine Arts, worked and raised her daughter. Barraza had her first success at the theater in 1984 with the leading role in the Mexican play Voces en el Umbral , in which she could be seen at the University of Chihuahua. The production was later moved to the capital, Mexico City , with her in the lead role , earning her critical acclaim. Barraza then separated from her daughter's father and moved to Mexico City in 1985, where she was hired by a theater director. Since then she has worked in the acting field, also for television and film productions.

Barraza first made wider circles of attention in 1993 when she starred in the female lead in Manolo García's television film Las Cosas Simples at the side of the well-known Mexican series actor Alexis Ayala . This was followed by more appearances in Mexican television series, including in Luis Vélez ' La Paloma (1995) with Manuel Ojeda and the role of social worker in Heriberto López de Andas La Culpa (1996). In 1998, Barraza made her movie debut with a supporting role in Alejandro Gamboa's award-winning drama La Primera noche , in which a group of adolescents discovers their sexuality. After she acted again a year later under the direction of Gamboas in the sequel La Segunda noche , followed in 2000 by a small part as the strict mother of Gael García Bernal in Alejandro González Iñárritu's highly acclaimed episode film Amores Perros . The drama has won over 35 international festival and critic awards and has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award and Oscar as best foreign film .

Breakthrough with "Babel"

Following this success, Adriana Barraza appeared in several episodes of Silvia Pinal's successful Mexican television series Mujer, casos de la vida real , which first aired after an earthquake in 1985 to support the stricken population before she returned for a recurring role in the third season of the television series Clase 406 (2003) was committed. In 2006, the second collaboration with Alejandro González Iñárritu followed on his drama Babel . In the episode film, whose actors include Cate Blanchett , Brad Pitt and Kōji Yakusho , Barraza again plays the kind-hearted nanny Amelia from San Diego at the side of Gael García Bernal , who secretly crosses the border to their homeland Mexico to attend her son's wedding party. Babel celebrated its successful premiere in mid-May 2006 at the 59th Cannes International Film Festival and opened in US cinemas on October 27, 2006. There the film received praise from critics and Adriana Barraza, who had gained 16.5 kg for the part of Amelia, won the San Francisco Film Critics Circle's award for best supporting actress of the year and was in the same category for the 2007 Golden Globe Awards and nominated for the 2007 Academy Awards. After Katy Jurado and Salma Hayek, she is only the third Mexican actress to have received the honor of being nominated for the prestigious US Academy Award . In the following years, Barraza appeared in only a handful of other Hollywood films ( Henry Poole - Followed by happiness , Drag Me to Hell , Thor ), with which she could not build on the previous success.

In parallel to her work as an actress, Adriana Barraza worked as a director on various Mexican television series. As an acting professor and teacher of accent and idiom, she worked in the United States and Mexico for the television networks Telemundo and Televisa , the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world. As an acting teacher, Barraza was involved in the filming of James L. Brooks ' comedy Spanglish (2004).

Filmography (selection)

actress

  • 1993: Las Cosas simples (TV)
  • 1995: La Paloma (TV series)
  • 1995: Imperio de cristal (TV series)
  • 1995: Bajo un mismo rostro (TV series)
  • 1996: La Culpa (TV series)
  • 1997: Alguna vez tendremos alas (TV series)
  • 1998: La Primera noche
  • 1999: La Segunda noche
  • 1999: La Paloma de Marsella
  • 2000: Locura de amor (TV series)
  • 2000: Amores Perros
  • 2003: Clase 406 (TV series)
  • 2006: Babel
  • 2008: Henry Poole - From happiness pursued ( Henry Poole Is Here )
  • 2009: Drag Me to Hell
  • 2009: Tres piezas de amor en un fin de semana
  • 2010: Revolución
  • 2010: And Soon the Darkness
  • 2010: Sucedió en un día
  • 2010: Burning Palms
  • 2010: Cerro Bayo
  • 2010: Te presento a Laura
  • 2011: From Prada to Nada
  • 2011: Thor
  • 2011: El cartel de los sapos
  • 2012: Mariachi Gringo
  • 2014: Cake
  • 2014–2016: The Strain (TV series)
  • 2015: Wild Horses
  • 2019: Rambo: Last Blood
  • 2019: Coyote Lake
  • 2020: Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (TV series)

Director

  • 1999: Nunca te olvidaré (TV series)
  • 2000: Locura de amor (TV series)
  • 2001: Aventuras en el tiempo (TV series)
  • 2001: El Manantial (TV series)
  • 2002: Cómplices al rescate (TV series)
  • 2010: Eva Luna: Detras de camaras (TV series)
  • 2011: Sacrificio de Mujer (TV series)
  • 2011: Eva Luna (TV series)

Awards

Oscar

  • 2007 : Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Babel

Golden Globe

  • 2007 : Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Babel

Further

Web links

Commons : Adriana Barraza  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FACTBOX-Facts on best-supporting-actress nominees. Reuters.com, February 24, 2007, archived from the original on June 4, 2011 ; accessed on March 9, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b cf. Kuhn, Sarah: In her shoes: Babel breakout Adriana Barraza infuses her characters with compassion and dignity, from head to toe . In: Back Stage West, January 11, 2007, Vol. 14, No. 2, p. 1 (2)
  3. ↑ Biografia y Trayectoria –ESTUDIOS. Archived from the original on February 19, 2008 ; Retrieved April 4, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Barraza, Adriana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican actress and television director
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Toluca , Mexico