Norma Aleandro

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Norma Aleandro (born May 2, 1936 in Buenos Aires ; actually Norma Aleandro Robledo ) is an Argentine actress , playwright and theater director . Thanks to a successful stage career spanning several decades and appearances in over 50 films, she is considered the "grande dame" of Argentine theater and cinema.

biography

Training and work as a theater actress

Norma Aleandro was born in Buenos Aires in 1936 as Norma Aleandro Robledo into a theater family. As the daughter of the actor couple María Luisa Robledo (1912–2005), a native of Madrid , and Pedro Aleandro (1910–1985), she began performing with her parents' theater group at the age of nine. María Vaner (1935–2008), her sister one year older, was also a well-known actress in Argentina. At the age of 13 Aleandro developed the desire to take up the acting profession as well. In this she was encouraged by her maternal grandmother.

After studying acting, Aleandro advanced through appearances in well-known Spanish plays by Miguel de Cervantes , Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina , classical stage productions by Euripides and Molière or more modern material by Ingmar Bergman ( Scenes from a Marriage ), Terrence McNally ( Master Class , 1997) , Arthur Miller , Eugene O'Neill ( One Long Day's Journey Into the Night ) and Tennessee Williams to one of the leading South American actresses and the “grande dame” of Argentine theater. Although she considers herself a "born clown", the actress likes to alternate between comedic, dramatic and tragic roles. She prefers to embody small but complex characters: "I like characters that are different from my personality," says Aleandro. In parallel to her work on the stage, where she also worked as a director and playwright, she began to gain a foothold in Argentine cinema from the early 1950s in films such as Leo Fleider's La muerte en las calles (1952). From the early 1960s, Aleandro appeared regularly in Argentinian television series.

Exile and return to Argentina

In the early 1970s, Norma Aleandro began to work increasingly in film productions, such as in Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's drama Güemes - la tierra en armas (1971) or Sergio Renán's Oscar- nominated melodrama The Armistice (1974), while she worked for David Stivels Berlinale - Contribution to the script, Der Erbstreit (1970). In 1976 the government was overthrown in Argentina and a military dictatorship was established under Jorge Rafael Videla . Because of her liberal views, Aleandro was forced to leave her home country in June of that year. Previously, a tear gas explosion had occurred in a theater on Avenida Corrientes , where she was preparing for the play Sobre el Amor y Otras Cuentos , and an explosion had taken place on her home. Aleandro then lived in Uruguay for 18 months to put her affairs in order. In 1978 she emigrated to Madrid with her second husband and child for five years after the family had sold for $ 30,000. In exile in Spain , where other Argentines had found refuge, Aleandro suffered from the separation from her family. Father and sister had stayed in Argentina, where both had been banned from working. Only after the fall of the junta government did the actress return to her home country in 1982 (according to other sources, in February 1981, as her son had returned to Argentina to do his military service).

Two years later, the female lead in Luis Puenzo's film production The Official Story (1984), alongside Héctor Alterio , with whom she worked several times over the course of her career, her breakthrough as a film actress. In the drama she can be seen as a true-to-life history teacher and adoptive mother Alicia, who begins to suspect that her daughter's birth parents could be among the many " disappeared " under the Argentine military dictatorship . The haunting psychological study, which was celebrated by the critics as a piece of cinematic mourning work about a fate and a nation at the same time through Puenzo's consistent connection between the private and politics, brought its leading actress, together with Cher ( The Mask ), the actor's award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985 a. In addition, The Official Story won the 1986 Oscar and the Golden Globe for best foreign language film production, while Aleandro, highly praised by the New York Times for her “subtle” and “brilliant” performance, also won the Italian David di Donatello , the New York Film Critics Circle Award 1985 and her first of three actor awards from the Argentine Film Critics Association, the Cóndor de Plata of the Asociación de Críticos Cinematográficos de Argentina , was given.

Career in Hollywood and return to Spanish-language cinema

After the success of The Official Story , Norma Aleandro made a guest appearance in 1985 with the play About Love and Other Stories About Love (original title: Sobre el Amor y Otras Cuentos ) in New York . The one-woman show, with which she had already toured South America, earned her the US off-Broadway Obie Prize for the 1985/1986 theater season . In 1987 she was seen at the New York Public Theater in Mario Vargas Llosas Senorita de Tacna , in which she slipped into the role of a 90-year-old as well as a 19-year-old. In the same year, Aleandro made her debut in English-language cinema with Luis Mandoki's Gaby - A True Story (1987) alongside Liv Ullmann and Robert Loggia , which reports on the real life of the cerebrally paralyzed Mexican Gabriella Brimmer (played by Rachel Levin ), who despite her Disability advanced to university graduate and successful writer. The part of the self-sacrificing nanny Florencia earned her great critical acclaim and she was nominated for the Golden Globe and Oscar in 1987 for best supporting actress, where she was left behind against Olympia Dukakis ( moonstruck ).

Further engagements in English-language film and television followed in the years to come with Joel Schumacher's Affair , Lou Antonio's Entry to Hell (both 1989) and Marisa Silvers Crisis (1990). Although Aleandro acted in these productions alongside up-and-coming and veteran stars such as Diane Lane , Lee Remick , Isabella Rossellini and Sean Young , but without exception she was subscribed to supporting roles, whereupon she joined after Sérgio Toledo's One Man's War - Alone Against the Junta (1991) Anthony Hopkins turned back to Spanish-language cinema. Since then she has acted in such diverse, award-winning roles as an aging Jew looking for a partner or a retired teacher with acting ambitions in Eduardo Mignogna's films Sol de otoño (1996) and Cleopatra (2003), as an Alzheimer's wife and grandmother in Juan José Campanella's Oscar nominee Tragic comedy The Son of the Bride (2002), as the Jewish family matriarch in Dominic Hararis and Teresa Pelegris Everything I Love About You, or as the capricious and bankrupt Argentine capital city woman from the upper middle class in Jorge Gaggero's drama Cama adentro (both 2004). In 2009 she returned to English-language cinema after 18 years with the part of Mrs. Van Euwen in James Ivory's The City of Your Final Destination . The film is about an American student (played by Omar Metwally ) who travels to South America to do research for the biography of a Latin American writer. In 2012 she could be seen in La suerte en tus manos - Happiness in your hands of her compatriot Daniel Burman .

Norma Aleandro lives in Buenos Aires and is married to the psychiatrist Eduardo Le Poole. Their son, Oscar Ferrigno Jr., emerged from an earlier marriage with their professional colleague Oscar Ferrigno , who died in 1985 and with whom she had appeared in the soap opera La casa de los Medina (1962). Like his parents, he became an actor and stood in front of the camera alongside Aleandro in the feature film Familia para armar (2011). In 1996 Aleandro was made an honorary citizen of her hometown. She has published several literary works, including the one-act play Los chicos quieren entrar (1989) and Puertos lejanos (2000), a collection of poems and short stories. She also counts painting to her hobbies.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1952: La muerte en las calles
  • 1962: El último piso (TV)
  • 1962: Romeo y Julieta (TV)
  • 1964: El amor tiene cara de mujer (TV)
  • 1966: Cuatro mujeres para Adán (TV)
  • 1967: Gente conmigo
  • 1969: La Fiaca
  • 1970: The inheritance dispute (Los herederos)
  • 1971: Güemes - la tierra en armas
  • 1974: The Armistice (La tregua)
  • 1984: The official story (La historia oficial)
  • 1987: Gaby : A True Story
  • 1989: Affair (cousins)
  • 1989: Entry to Hell ( Passport to Terror / Dark Holiday , TV)
  • 1990: Crisis ( Vital Signs )
  • 1991: One Man's War - Alone Against the Junta ( One Man's War , TV)
  • 1996: Carlos Monzón, el segundo juicio
  • 1996: Sol de otoño
  • 1996: Corazón iluminado
  • 1998: El faro
  • 2000: Una noche con Sabrina Love
  • 2001: La fuga
  • 2001: The Bride's Son (El hijo de la novia)
  • 2003: Cleopatra
  • 2004: Everything I love about you (Seres queridos)
  • 2004: Ay Juancito
  • 2004: Cama adentro
  • 2006: Pura sangre
  • 2009: The City of Your Final Destination
  • 2009: Música en espera
  • 2009: Anita
  • 2009: Andrés no quiere dormir la siesta
  • 2009: Cuestión de principios
  • 2009: Paco
  • 2011: Familia para armar
  • 2012: Lobo (TV series)
  • 2012: La suerte en tus manos - Happiness in your hands (La suerte en tus manos)
  • 2012-2014: En terapia (TV series)
  • 2015: El espejo de los otros
  • 2016: La valija de Benavídez
  • 2016: Angelita la doctora
  • 2016: Los ricos no piden permiso (TV series)
  • 2016–2017: El Jardín de Bronce (TV series)

Works (selection)

  • 1985: Poemas y cuentos de Atenázor
  • 1989: Los chicos quieren entrar
  • 1991: Diario secreto
  • 2000: Puertos lejanos
  • 2002: De rigurosa etiqueta y otras obras

Awards (selection)

  • 1985: Cannes International Film Festival Actor Award for The Official Story
  • 1985: New York Film Critics Circle Award for The Official Story (Category: Best Actress)
  • 1986: Obie Award for Sobre el amor (Best Theater Actress of the Year)
  • 1986: Premio ACE for The Official Story (Best Actress - Cinema)
  • 1986: Cóndor de Plata of the Asociación de Críticos Cinematográficos de Argentina for The Official Story (Best Actress)
  • 1987: Italian David di Donatello for The Official Story (Best Foreign Actress)
  • 1987: Premio Sant Jordi for The Official Story (Best Foreign Actress)
  • 1988: Golden Globe nomination for Gaby - A True Story (Best Supporting Actress)
  • 1988: Oscar nomination for Gaby, A True Story (Best Supporting Actress)
  • 1996: Actor Award of the Havana Film Festival for Sol de otoño
  • 1996: Actor Award of the San Sebastián International Film Festival for Sol de otoño
  • 1996: Premio ACE de Oro for Master class (Best Theater Character of the Year)
  • 1997: Cóndor de Plata for Sol de otoño (Best Actress)
  • 2001: Premio Konex de Brillante (Best Theater Actress of the Decade)
  • 2002: Cóndor de Plata for The Bride's Son (Best Supporting Actress)
  • 2002: Nomination for the Premio del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos for The Son of the Bride (Best Supporting Actress)
  • 2004: Nomination for the Cóndor de Plata for Cleopatra (Best Actress)
  • 2006: Premio ACE for Cama adentro (Best Character Actress - Cinema)
  • 2006: Nomination for the Cóndor de Plata for Cama adentro (Best Actress)
  • 2009: Nomination for the Argentine Film Academy Award for Anita (Best Supporting Actress)
  • 2009: Premios ACE for Agosto (Best Theater Actress of the Year)
  • 2010: Nomination for the Cóndor de Plata for Anita (Best Supporting Actress)

Web links

Commons : Norma Aleandro  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d cf. Torres, Rosana: Norma Aleandro . In: El País , 23 September 2003, p. 39
  2. ↑ a b c cf. Norma Aleandro . In: Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2007
  3. ↑ cf. Sanchidrian, Antonio: Ocio . In: El Mundo , September 8, 2003, Madrid, Col. 5, pp. 12-13.
  4. ↑ cf. Vallellano, Lucia: El festival de cine onubense concede el Premio Ciudad de Huelva a la actriz Norma Aleandro . In: El País , November 17, 2004, p. 8
  5. ↑ cf. Cotayo, Charles: Norma Aleandro, inspiracion y profesionalismo. In: El Nuevo Herald , December 7, 2001, p. 1c
  6. ↑ cf. ESPANA-CINE Norma Aleandro ve "reverdecer" el cine argentino pese a la crisis . Spanish Newswire Services, December 7, 2001
  7. ↑ cf. Lexicon of International Films 2000/2001 (CD-ROM)
  8. ↑ cf. Goodman, Walter: Argentine Love And Loss . In: The New York Times, November 8, 1985
  9. ↑ cf. Goodman, Walter: Senorita de Tacna at Public . In: The New York Times, August 17, 1987
  10. ↑ cf. Maslin, Janet: Gaby, Story of Determination . In: The New York Times, October 30, 1987
personal data
SURNAME Aleandro, Norma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aleandro Robledo, Norma (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine actress, playwright and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires , Argentina