Antonia San Juan is a Spanish

Spain

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 actress, director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

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She was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

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, Spain

Spain

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. At 19 she went to Madrid

Madrid

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, where she started working as a professional theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 actress and also as a cabaret act in pubs and bars. She became known thanks to her role as Agrado in Todo sobre mi madre by Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...

. A famous Spanish magazine article about her alleged transsexuality caused great controversy. She is well-known in Spain

Spain

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 not only because of her film career but also for her humorous monologues on television and theatre . Since 2009 she has been acting in the popular Spanish TV series La que se avecina

La que se avecina

La que se avecina is a Spanish television comedy that depicts the life of the inhabitants of Mirador de Montepinar , a fictional apartment building in the outskirts of Madrid...

, where her role of Estela Reynolds is one of the most acclaimed roles in the show.

Filmography

• La caja (2006)
• La china (2005)
• Un buen día (2005)
• Un dulce despertar (2005)
• El hambre (2005)
• La maldad de las cosas (2005)
• La nevera (2005)
• Mela y sus hermanas (2004)
• Te llevas la palma (2004)
• 238 (2003)
• Colours (2003)
• Octavia (2002)
• La balsa de piedra (2002)
• Amnèsia (2002)
• Piedras
  Piedras (film)
  Piedras is a 2002 Spanish film directed by Ramón Salazar. It revolves around the lives of five women living in Madrid.-Cast:*Antonia San Juan as Adela*Ángela Molina as Isabel*Najwa Nimri as Leire*Vicky Peña as Maricarmen...
  
   (2002)
• Venganza (2002))
• V.O. (2001)
• El pan de cada día, El (2000)
• Asfalto (2000)
• Ataque verbal (1999)
• Manolito Gafotas (1999)
• Todo sobre mi madre (1999)
• Hongos (1999)
• La primera noche de mi vida (1998)
• El grito en el cielo (1998)
• Perdona bonita, pero Lucas me quería a mí (1997)
• La vida siempre es corta (1994)

External links

Official Page