) is a Spanish

Spain

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-Italian film

Film

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 actress.

Best known for playing dramatic roles in Spain, Sánchez-Gijón is known in the United States

United States

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 for her portrayal of Victoria Aragon, a pregnant and abandoned Mexican-American winegrower's daughter who is helped by travelling salesman Paul Sutton (Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves

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) in A Walk in the Clouds

A Walk in the Clouds

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(1995). She has since built a reputation as an international star in films such as Manuel Gomez Pereira

Manuel Gómez Pereira

Manuel Gómez Pereira is a successful Spanish screenwriter and film director of comedies.He is the nephew of the film director Luis Sanz.-Filmography as Director :* 1992: Salsa rosa...

's Boca a Boca (1996), Bigas Luna

Bigas Luna

Juan José Bigas Luna is a Spanish film director. He began his professional career in the design world, creating the Estudio Gris with Carlos Riart in 1969. In his earlier exhibitions, at the beginning of the sixties, he showed a great interest in conceptual art and the emerging visual technologies...

's The Chambermaid on the Titanic

The Chambermaid on the Titanic

The Chambermaid on the Titanic is a 1997 French drama film directed by Bigas Luna, starring Oliver Martinez, Romane Bohringer and Aitana Sanchez-Gijon. It is based on the novel La Femme de chambre du Titanic by Didier Decoin...

(1997), Jaime Chavarri

Jaime Chávarri

Jaime Chávarri y de la Mora is a Spanish actor, screenwriter and film director. His mother María de la Mora y Maura was a maternal granddaughter of Antonio Maura....

's Sus Ojos Se Cerraron (1998), Gabriele Salvatores

Gabriele Salvatores

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' adaptation of the Niccolò Ammaniti

Niccolò Ammaniti

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 novel I'm not scared

I'm Not Scared

I'm Not Scared is a 2003 film directed by Gabriele Salvatores. Francesa Marciano and Niccolo Ammaniti wrote the script based on Niccolò Ammaniti's successful 2001 Italian novel Io non ho paura...

(2003) and Brad Anderson

Brad Anderson (film director)

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's The Machinist

The Machinist

The Machinist is a 2004 English-language Spanish psychological thriller film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Scott Kosar....

(2004).

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