Goya Toledo
Goya Toledo (born September 24, 1969 in Arrecife , Lanzarote ) is a Spanish actress and former model . Since the early 1990s she has worked in more than 30 film and television productions.
Life
Goya Toledo was born in the Canary Islands in 1969 . She began a career as a model and later moved to Madrid , where Toledo attended several diction courses with a view to an acting career in order to shed her Canarian dialect. In the Spanish capital she made the acquaintance of the native Madrile Penélope Cruz , who studied acting even before her first success with Bigas Luna's erotic film Jamon Jamon (1992). Cruz, with whom she is still friends, persuaded Toledo to do an acting training with Cristina Rota in New York . After four years of study, Toledo completed her training in Spain with an audiovisual seminar with Mariano Barroso and acting and theater courses with Augusto Fernández and José Sanchís Sinisterra. This was followed by appearances in television series , including the award-winning sitcom Los Ladrones van a la oficina (1993) and Todos a bordo (1995), the Spanish version of Love Boat . Toledo made her debut in Spanish cinema in 1996 with the part of Sonia in Giacomo Battiato's drama Diary of a Rapist , which was represented in the competition at the Stockholm Film Festival. After further supporting roles in Pedro Olea's Más allá del jardín (1996) and José Miguel Juárez 'comedy Dile a Laura que la quiero (1997), she celebrated her breakthrough as an actress in 1998 with the cinema production Mararía . In the drama by Antonio José Betancor, which is set in Lanzarote at the time of the Spanish Civil War , Toledo plays the title role of a chaste and homeless beauty who bestows her favor with a Spanish doctor (played by Carmelo Gómez) and an English surveyor (Iain Glen), which ends in tragedy. The critics praised Toledo's performance and she was nominated as best young actress in 1999 at the age of 29 for the most important Spanish film award, the Goya , but was defeated by her compatriot Marieta Orozco ( Barrio ).
Two years later, Goya Toledo was able to build on the success of Mararía with the role of the disfigured model Valeria in Alejandro González Iñárritus Amores Perros . The Mexican film director did not want to cast the part in his episode film with a Mexican actress and originally tended to hire an Argentine or Hispanic actress. But then Iñárritu, together with his screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, became aware of the Spaniard through an advertisement for Toledo's previous film in a cinema magazine. Amores Perros , in other roles with Emilio Echevarría , Gael García Bernal , Álvaro Guerrero and Vanessa Bauche , celebrated its premiere at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2000 and was in the favor of critics. While in Germany the star spoke of a brutal and loving masterpiece, the New York Times praised the episode film as the first classic of the new decade and the drama was awarded over 35 international festival and critic prizes and as the best foreign film for the Golden Globe and Oscar nominated.
Although it became known to an international audience, Toledo avoided accepting offers in the USA , where they feared intense competition as well as a possible commitment to Hispanic roles. She returned to her native Spain and in the next few years played leading roles in both Spanish cinema ( Nudos , 2003; Fuera del cuerpo , 2004) and in European productions ( Die Fremde , 2002; È già ieri , 2004). In 2003, Toledo was named Shooting Star of the Year by the European Film Promotion for the role as a hostage of a psychopath in Laura Mañá's thriller Killing Words with other young European actors . After the Cuban film musical Bailando chachacha and Isidro Ortiz's horror film Somne (both 2005), the Spanish actress appeared in Enrique Urbizu's A Real Friend , with whom she had already worked on the thriller La Caja 507 in 2002 . In A Real Friend , Goya Toledo mimes the mother of a lonely adolescent girl (played by Nerea Inchausti) who invents a mysterious, imaginary friend to play with. The mystery film is one of a series of six television films of similar genre, titled as Películas para no dormir (Eng .: "Films to not fall asleep" ), which was inspired by Chicho Ibáñez-Serrador's television series Historias para no dormir (1964-1982). Well-known filmmakers such as Jaume Balagueró , Mateo Gil , Álex de la Iglesia and Francisco Plaza were involved in the project.
Toledo was able to build on earlier successes in 2011 with Paco Arango's feature film debut Maktub . In the tragic comedy, which is based on a true case, she was seen as the mother of a boy with cancer. For her portrayal of Mari Luz, she won the Spanish Film Critics Association ( CEC) award for best supporting actress and received another nomination for the Spanish Goya film award. Another Goya nomination followed in 2015 for her supporting role as the combative adoptive mother Virginia in Belén Macías ' feature film Marsella .
Filmography
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Awards
- 1999 : Goya nomination for Mararía (Best Young Actress)
- 2003: Spanish " Shooting Star " at the Berlinale
- 2012: Goya nomination for Maktub ( Best Supporting Actress )
- 2012: Prize of the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos for Maktub (Best Supporting Actress)
- 2015: Goya nomination for Marsella (Best Supporting Actress)
- 2015: Nomination of the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos for Marsella (Best Supporting Actress)
Web links
- Goya Toledo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Profile at silicia.com (span.)
- Press booklet for the film È già ieri (it.) (PDF file; 166 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Elvis Mitchell film review in the New York Times October 5, 2000
- ↑ cf. Profile at yahoo.com (span.) ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2006 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.
- ↑ cf. Film profile on aullidos.com (span.)
- ^ Cine estreno: Paco Arango debuta en cine con "Maktub", un cuento navideño alegre y positivo . December 14, 2011, 2:38 PM GMT (accessed via LexisNexis Business ).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Toledo, Goya |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish actress and model |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lanzarote , Canary Islands , Spain |