Beatriz Spelzini

Beatriz Spelzini

Beatriz Spelzini (* around 1952 ) is an Argentine actress. In addition to a successful stage career, she has appeared in more than twenty film and television productions since the mid-1970s. She became known to a German-speaking audience through her participation in Florian Cossen's 2010 feature film Das Lied in mir , for which she received the German Film Prize.

Life

Training and theater work

Beatriz Spelzini grew up in the Saavedra district of Buenos Aires . Her father owned a goods store, her mother came from the country and was a housewife. Spelzini had three other sisters, one of whom died at a young age. Spelzini attended elementary school until she was twelve, before switching to an art college at her own request to study drawing and painting. According to her own statements, she was the first member of her family to be enthusiastic about art ( "I was a difficult child. I never discussed my path in life, my parents had no chance." ).

At the age of 16, Spelzini was inspired to become an actress by Sidney Lumet's film version of the Chekhov play The Seagull (1968) with Vanessa Redgrave . Although she described herself as very shy in retrospect, she graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Arte Dramático and the Escuelas Nacionales de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano y Prilidiano Pueyrredón in her hometown. Spelzini attended acting courses with Augusto Fernandes and received a Cervantes scholarship at the Conservatory. She completed her acting studies together with her colleagues Jorge Marrale and Osvaldo Santoro, who were also successful later on, as the best.

From 1976 Spelzini was active as an actress. She received her first engagement for Periodistas al desnudo together with Andrés Percivale , Adolfo García Grau and Marrale. Two years later, the successful play Juegos a la hora de la siesta (1978) in Buenos Aires was banned by the military junta . In the production of a repertoire group she had worked alongside Stella Maris Ponce and Gerardo Romano. In addition to Spanish pieces, Spelzini was also seen in classical works such as Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard , The Seagull and Platonov , Molière's The Misanthrope , Ibsen's Peer Gynt and Shakespeare's King Lear in the following decades . Her modern role repertoire includes appearances in Tennessee Williams ' Die Glasmenagerie and Arthur Miller's The Last Yankee . In 2004 she was seen at the Teatro Maipo alongside Norma Aleandro in the revival of Mario Vargas Llosa's La señorita de Tacna as Carmen. Both actresses had starred in the premiere 23 years earlier.

In addition to Augusto Fernandes, the Argentine theater director Agustín Alezzo is one of Spelzini's teachers, and she attended his drama school. Alezzo's production of En boca cerrada won the actress her first theater award after previously working as an acting teacher with her mentor. The highlight of Spelzini's stage career so far came with Alezzo's staging of Sean Mathias ' work Rose (2008). Her first one-woman show described the path of a Ukrainian Jew from the early 20th century to the old owner of a luxury hotel in Miami today. Spelzini described the part of the rose as the most important commitment and as a "dream that has come true" . In addition to the four-month rehearsals, she watched a lot of her mother and grandmother and interviewed Holocaust survivors. The reward was 2008/09 profit of nearly all major Argentine theater prizes, including the Premio ACE , the Premio María Guerrero , the Premio Trinidad Guevara and Premio Estrella de Mar .

Film and television career

Parallel to her theater career, Spelzini has appeared in more than twenty film and television productions since the mid-1970s. These include the leading role in the Italian cinema production Riconciliati (2001), for which the director Rosalía Polizzi had chosen her personally. Spelzini starred in the drama as a pregnant, single woman who was arrested and abused in Argentina during the time of the junta government and who was looking for a new start in Italy in the early 1980s. In 2007, Spelzini earned critical acclaim in her home country for the feature film Yo la recuerdo ahora . In Néstor Lescovich's drama, she slipped into the role of a shy maid who falls in love with a suicidal pensioner (played by Ulises Dumont ). In 2007 Spelzini received a nomination for the Cóndor de Plata , Argentina's national film award, for the part of the Gladys .

A German audience was Spelzini by Florian Cossens student graduation film The Day I Was Not known (2010). The story is about a 30-year-old German (played by Jessica Schwarz ) who, while listening to a Spanish lullaby in Buenos Aires, finds out by chance that she is the daughter of two opponents of the regime (" Desaparecidos ") who disappeared during the Argentine military dictatorship . In the internationally award-winning feature film in German, Spanish and English, Spelzini took on the role of aunted Estela. Like Schwarz and co-actor Michael Gwisdek , she had waived half of her fee for realizing the project . Despite her few scenes in Das Lied in mirenne, the face of Spelzini's character, “aged prematurely from suffering” , burns itself into the mind of the viewer, according to the criticism of the Berliner Zeitung . For this achievement Spelzini was awarded the German Film Prize for Best Supporting Actress in 2011 .

Beatriz Spelzini is considered shy. The sensitive actress, who largely renounced commercial offers, feels, according to her own statements, more secure on stage than in real life ( "Playing takes away the fear of life" ). She was a member of the ensemble of the Teatro Municipal General San Martín in Buenos Aires for several years and worked among other things as an acting teacher for her mentors Alezzo and Fernandes. Spelzini lives in Buenos Aires.

Plays (selection)

year	Play	Director	role	stage
1978	Juegos a la hora de la siesta			Buenos Aires
1981	La señorita de Tacna			Buenos Aires
1996	La gaviota
1998	El jardín de los cerezos	Agustin Alezzo	Varia	Teatro Municipal General San Martín (Buenos Aires)
1999	El zoo de cristal	Agustin Alezzo		Teatro Municipal General San Martín
2001	Los derechos de la salud	Raúl Rizzo		Teatro Regio (Buenos Aires)
2001	Umbral	Fernando Piernas		Teatro del Sur (Buenos Aires)
2002	El misántropo	Jacques Lassalle	Arsinoe	Teatro Municipal General San Martín
2002	Stefano	Juan Carlos Gené	Margarita	Teatro Cervantes (Buenos Aires)
2002	The professor of the Warren seniors	Agustin Alezzo		Teatro Regina (Buenos Aires)
2003	Platónov	Hugo Urquijo	Ana Petrovna	Teatro Municipal General San Martín
2004	La señorita de Tacna	Oscar Ferrigno	Carmen	Maipo Theater (Buenos Aires)
2005	Las tres caras de Venus	Lorenzo Quinteros	Isabel	Teatro Cervantes (Buenos Aires)
2007	El último yankee	Laura Yusem	Patient	Teatro Municipal General San Martín
2008	Rose (One Woman Show)	Agustin Alezzo	rose	Maipo Theater
2008	Umbral			Centro Cultural España (Buenos Aires)
2009	Rose (One Woman Show)		rose	Teatro del Nudo (Buenos Aires)
2009	Cita a ciegas			Casa del Teatro (Buenos Aires)
2011	Rose (One Woman Show)		rose	Teatro Auditorium sala Nachman ( Mar del Plata )

Filmography (selection)

• 1978: Juana Rebelde (TV series)
• 1979: Cuatro pícaros bomberos
• 1979: La isla
• 1980: Coraje de querer (TV series)
• 1991: Buenos Aires háblame de amor (TV series)
• 1992: Micaela (TV series)
• 1992: Corazones de fuego (TV series)
• 1994: Montaña Rusa (TV series)
• 1998: La nocturna (TV series)
• 1998: Mar de amores
• 1998: Fiscales (TV multi-part)
• 1999: Buenos vecinos (TV series)
• 2001: Riconciliati
• 2002: 1000 millones (TV series)
• 2003: Cleopatra
• 2005: Judíos en el espacio
• 2005: Géminis
• 2006: Olga, Victoria Olga
• 2006: El espacio de las apariencias (short film)
• 2007: Yo la recuerdo ahora
• 2007: Cartas para Jenny
• 2010: The song in me
• 2011: El gato desaparece
• 2011: Televisión por la inclusión (TV multi-part series; episode: Daños y prejuicios )
• 2011: La ultima mirada
• 2012: La Nada Blanca (TV series)

Awards (selection)

• 1995: Nomination for the Premio ACE for Danza de verano (Category: Best Supporting Actress)
• 1998: Nomination for the Premio ACE for El jardín de los cerezos (Best Supporting Actress)
• 1998: Nomination for the Premio María Guerrero for El jardín de los cerezos (Best Supporting Actress)
• 2001: Nomination for the Premio ACE for Los derechos de la salud (Best Supporting Actress)
• 2003: Nomination for the Premio Florencio Sánchez for Stéfano (Best Supporting Actress)
• 2003: Premio ACE for Stéfano (Best Supporting Actress)
• 2004: Premio Trinidad Guevara for Stéfano (Best Supporting Actress of 2002)
• 2004: Nomination for the Premio ACE for La señorita de Tacna (Best Supporting Actress)
• 2007: Nomination for the Premio ACE for El último yankee (Best Actress)
• 2007: Nomination for the Premio María Guerrero for El último yankee (Best Actress)
• 2008: Nomination for the Cóndor de Plata for Yo la recuerdo ahora (Best Actress)
• 2008: Premio ACE for Rose (Best Actress)
• 2008: Premio María Guerrero for Rose (Best Actress)
• 2009: Nomination for the Premio Florencio Sánchez for Rose (Best Actress)
• 2009: Premio Trinidad Guevara for Rose (Best Actress)
• 2009: Premio Estrella de Mar for Rose (Best Actress)
• 2009: Clarin newspaper award in the theater category
• 2011: German Film Award for Das Lied in mir ( Best Acting Performance - Female Supporting Role )

Web links

• Official website of Beatriz Spelzini
• Profile at alternativateatral.com (Spanish)
• Interview at diarioelatlantico.com, August 14, 2010 (Spanish)
• Beatriz Spelzini in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} cf. Domínguez, Carolina: Una actriz en su mejor momento at edant.clarin.com, February 22, 2009 (accessed April 7, 2011).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} cf. Ventura, Laura: Entre pétalos y fantasmas at lanacion.com.ar, February 1, 2009 (accessed April 7, 2011).
3. ↑ ^{a b c} cf. "Actuar me quita el miedo a vivir" at lanacion.com.ar, August 9, 2008 (accessed April 7, 2011).
4. ↑ ^{a b c} cf. Pacheco, Carlos: Spelzini, en diálogo con Chejov at lanacion.com, October 31, 2003 (accessed April 7, 2011).
5. ↑ cf. Profile at alternativateatral.com (Spanish; accessed April 7, 2011).
6. ↑ cf. Iglesias, Fernanda: Stella Maris Ponce: "Esta es mi historia" at edant.clarin.com, July 9, 2002 (accessed April 7, 2011).
7. ↑ cf. Interview at salta21.com, April 16, 2010 (accessed April 7, 2011).
8. ↑ cf. La actriz de intensidades at edant.clarin.com, December 3, 2008 (accessed April 7, 2011).
9. ↑ cf. Martínez, Adolfo C .: Rosalía Polizzi, entre dos generaciones at lanacion.com.ar, July 16, 2001 (accessed April 7, 2011).
10. ↑ cf. Bühler, Philipp: The Truth of the Junta Child German-Argentine dictatorship history: Jessica Schwarz searches for the past in "Das Lied in mir" . In: Berliner Zeitung, February 10, 2011, No. 34 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
11. ↑ cf. "Vincent will Meer" is the best film ( memento of the original from April 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at rp-online.de, April 8, 2011 (accessed April 8, 2011). 
12. ↑ cf. Profile ( Memento of the original from February 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at filmportal.de (accessed April 9, 2011).