Catalina Sandino Moreno
Encyclopedia
Catalina Sandino Moreno (born April 19, 1981) is a Colombia
n actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress
for her role in Maria Full of Grace
(2004).
, Colombia
to a pathologist mother and a cattle breeder/veterinarian
father. She went to Saint George's School in Bogota where she graduated in 2000. Before becoming an actress, she studied advertising at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. She relocated to New York City in 2004, after she was noticed for her talent at the Rubén Di Pietro acting school in Bogotá. She was then referred to a casting audition for the 2004 film Maria Full of Grace
where she beat over 900 girls for the lead role. Sandino Moreno's role in this movie made her the second South American and third Hispanic actress nominated for an Academy Award.
In 2006 she played roles in Fast Food Nation
and Paris, je t'aime
. In 2008 she appeared alongside Benicio del Toro
in Steven Soderbergh
s Che Part One: The Argentine and Che Part Two: Guerrilla, playing the role of Aleida March de Guevara
. She played the role of female Vampire
Maria in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), based on the same named novel by Stephenie Meyer
.
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! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes
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| 2004 || Maria Full of Grace
|| María Álvarez || Silver Berlin Bear for Best Actress
Colombian Cinema Award for Best Actress
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Performer
Gotham Award for Breakthrough Performance
Imagen Award for Best Actress - Film
Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for New Generation
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
Premio ACE for Cinema - Best Actress
Seattle International Film Festival for Best Actress
ShoWest Award for International Star of the Year
Nominated- Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated-Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated-Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress
Nominated-London Critics Circle Film Award for Actress of the Year
Nominated-Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Nominated-Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
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| rowspan=2| 2006 || Journey to the End of the Night
|| Angie ||
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| Fast Food Nation
|| Sylvia ||
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| rowspan=4| 2007 || Paris, je t'aime
|| Ana ||
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| The Hottest State
|| Sarah ||
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| Heart of the Earth || Blanca Bosco ||
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| Love in the Time of Cholera
|| Hildebranda Sanchez ||
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| rowspan=2| 2008 || Che Part One: The Argentine || Aleida March de Guevara
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| Che Part Two: Guerrilla || Aleida March de Guevara
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| 2010 || The Twilight Saga: Eclipse || Maria ||
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| 2011 || Cristiada
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| 2012 || Magic Magic || || filming
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Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
n actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
for her role in Maria Full of Grace
Maria Full of Grace
Maria Full of Grace is a 2004 joint Colombian-American film, written and directed by Joshua Marston, who won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Although the movie depicts rural life in Colombia, it was actually filmed in Ecuador...
(2004).
Life and career
Sandino Moreno was born in BogotáBogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
to a pathologist mother and a cattle breeder/veterinarian
Veterinarian
A veterinary physician, colloquially called a vet, shortened from veterinarian or veterinary surgeon , is a professional who treats disease, disorder and injury in animals....
father. She went to Saint George's School in Bogota where she graduated in 2000. Before becoming an actress, she studied advertising at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. She relocated to New York City in 2004, after she was noticed for her talent at the Rubén Di Pietro acting school in Bogotá. She was then referred to a casting audition for the 2004 film Maria Full of Grace
Maria Full of Grace
Maria Full of Grace is a 2004 joint Colombian-American film, written and directed by Joshua Marston, who won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Although the movie depicts rural life in Colombia, it was actually filmed in Ecuador...
where she beat over 900 girls for the lead role. Sandino Moreno's role in this movie made her the second South American and third Hispanic actress nominated for an Academy Award.
In 2006 she played roles in Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation (film)
Fast Food Nation is a 2006 American/British drama film directed by Richard Linklater. The screenplay was written by Linklater and Eric Schlosser, loosely based on the latter's bestselling 2001 non-fiction book of the same name...
and Paris, je t'aime
Paris, je t'aime
Paris, Je t'aime is a 2006 anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities. The two-hour film consists of eighteen short films set in different arrondissements...
. In 2008 she appeared alongside Benicio del Toro
Benicio del Toro
Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez is a Puerto Rican and Spanish actor and film producer. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a BAFTA Award for his role as Javier Rodríguez in Traffic . He is also known for his roles as Fred Fenster in The Usual...
in Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh
Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing commercial Hollywood films like Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and the remake of Ocean's Eleven, but he has also directed smaller less...
s Che Part One: The Argentine and Che Part Two: Guerrilla, playing the role of Aleida March de Guevara
Aleida March
Aleida March is Ernesto "Che" Guevara's second wife, and a member of Castro's Cuban army. Her marriage with Che Guevara is reported to have happened both on 23 March 1959 and 2 June 1959. A civil ceremony was held at La Cabana Military fortress...
. She played the role of female Vampire
Vampire
Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person...
Maria in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), based on the same named novel by Stephenie Meyer
Stephenie Meyer
Stephenie Meyer is an American author known for her vampire romance series Twilight. The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies globally, with translations into 37 different languages...
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Personal life
Sandino Moreno lived with motion picture electrician David Elwell from 2002 to 2008, whom she met working on Maria Full of Grace. She married him on April 15, 2006 in a small ceremony held in Cartagena de Indias.. She has one child with New York photographer Alvaro Corzo.Filmography
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! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes
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| 2004 || Maria Full of Grace
Maria Full of Grace
Maria Full of Grace is a 2004 joint Colombian-American film, written and directed by Joshua Marston, who won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Although the movie depicts rural life in Colombia, it was actually filmed in Ecuador...
|| María Álvarez || Silver Berlin Bear for Best Actress
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival , also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978...
Colombian Cinema Award for Best Actress
Cartagena Film Festival
The Cartagena Film Festival, or Festival Internacional de Cine y T.V. de Cartagena de Indias. is a Colombian film festival which focuses on the promotion of Colombian television programs, Latin American films, and videos...
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Performer
Chicago Film Critics Association
The Chicago Film Critics Association is an American film critic association.-Members:Current members include:*Sarah Knight Adamson*Zbigniew Banas*Shelley Cameron*Dave Canfield*Vittorio Carli*Erik Childress*Camerin Courtney*Bonnie DeShong...
Gotham Award for Breakthrough Performance
Gotham Awards
The Gotham Awards is an annual ceremony of awards presented to the makers of independent films which takes place in New York City...
Imagen Award for Best Actress - Film
Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead
Independent Spirit Awards
The Independent Spirit Awards , founded in 1984, are awards dedicated to independent filmmakers. Winners were typically presented with acrylic glass pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films. In 1986, the event was renamed the Independent Spirit...
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for New Generation
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
Premio ACE for Cinema - Best Actress
Seattle International Film Festival for Best Actress
Seattle International Film Festival
The Seattle International Film Festival , held annually in Seattle, Washington since 1976, is among the top film festivals in North America. Audiences have grown steadily; the 2006 festival had 160,000 attendees...
ShoWest Award for International Star of the Year
Nominated- Academy Award for Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
Nominated-Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated-Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress
Nominated-London Critics Circle Film Award for Actress of the Year
Nominated-Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Satellite Awards
The Satellite Awards are an annual award given by the International Press Academy. The awards were originally known as the Golden Satellite Awards.- Film :*Best Actor – Drama*Best Actor – Musical or Comedy*Best Actress – Drama...
Nominated-Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
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| rowspan=2| 2006 || Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night (2006 film)
Journey to the End of the Night is a 2006 film directed by Eric Eason starring Brendan Fraser, Mos Def, Scott Glenn, Alice Braga and Catalina Sandino Moreno.- Synopsis :...
|| Angie ||
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| Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation (film)
Fast Food Nation is a 2006 American/British drama film directed by Richard Linklater. The screenplay was written by Linklater and Eric Schlosser, loosely based on the latter's bestselling 2001 non-fiction book of the same name...
|| Sylvia ||
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| rowspan=4| 2007 || Paris, je t'aime
Paris, je t'aime
Paris, Je t'aime is a 2006 anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities. The two-hour film consists of eighteen short films set in different arrondissements...
|| Ana ||
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| The Hottest State
The Hottest State
The Hottest State is a 2006 drama directed and written by Ethan Hawke, based on Hawke's 1996 novel of the same name. The film debuted at the Venice Film Festival on September 2, 2006, and received a limited theatrical release in the United States on August 24, 2007. It ran for 5 weeks and grossed...
|| Sarah ||
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| Heart of the Earth || Blanca Bosco ||
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| Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera (film)
Love in the Time of Cholera is a 2007 film directed by Mike Newell. Based on the novel of the same name by Gabriel García Márquez, it tells the story of a love triangle between Fermina Daza and her two suitors, Florentino Ariza and Doctor Juvenal Urbino which spans 50 years, from 1880 to...
|| Hildebranda Sanchez ||
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| rowspan=2| 2008 || Che Part One: The Argentine || Aleida March de Guevara
Aleida March
Aleida March is Ernesto "Che" Guevara's second wife, and a member of Castro's Cuban army. Her marriage with Che Guevara is reported to have happened both on 23 March 1959 and 2 June 1959. A civil ceremony was held at La Cabana Military fortress...
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| Che Part Two: Guerrilla || Aleida March de Guevara
Aleida March
Aleida March is Ernesto "Che" Guevara's second wife, and a member of Castro's Cuban army. Her marriage with Che Guevara is reported to have happened both on 23 March 1959 and 2 June 1959. A civil ceremony was held at La Cabana Military fortress...
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| 2010 || The Twilight Saga: Eclipse || Maria ||
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| 2011 || Cristiada
Cristiada (film)
Cristiada is a drama film and historic epic, currently in post-production, directed by Dean Wright and written by , based on the true story of the Cristero War . Although filmed in Mexico, it is in English...
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| 2012 || Magic Magic || || filming
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Awards and nominations
- Sandino received a nomination for Best ActressAcademy Award for Best ActressPerformance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
at the 77th Academy Awards77th Academy AwardsThe 77th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2004 and were held on February 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by comedian Chris Rock.The nominees were announced on January 25, 2005...
. - Sandino received a nomination for Best Actress at the 11th Screen Actors Guild Awards.
- 2005 Best Female Lead Award in the Independent Spirit AwardsIndependent Spirit AwardsThe Independent Spirit Awards , founded in 1984, are awards dedicated to independent filmmakers. Winners were typically presented with acrylic glass pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films. In 1986, the event was renamed the Independent Spirit...
. - 2004 Silver Berlin Bear for Best Actress in the Berlin International Film FestivalBerlin International Film FestivalThe Berlin International Film Festival , also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978...
. - 2004 Most Promising Performer in the Chicago Film Critics AssociationChicago Film Critics AssociationThe Chicago Film Critics Association is an American film critic association.-Members:Current members include:*Sarah Knight Adamson*Zbigniew Banas*Shelley Cameron*Dave Canfield*Vittorio Carli*Erik Childress*Camerin Courtney*Bonnie DeShong...
Awards. - 2004 Breakthrough Award in the Gotham AwardsGotham AwardsThe Gotham Awards is an annual ceremony of awards presented to the makers of independent films which takes place in New York City...
. - 2004 New generation Award in the Los Angeles Film Critics AssociationLos Angeles Film Critics AssociationThe Los Angeles Film Critics Association was founded in 1975. Its main purpose is to present yearly awards to members of the film industry who have excelled in their fields. These awards are presented each January...
Awards. - 2005 Golden Space Needle Award for Best Actress in the Seattle International Film FestivalSeattle International Film FestivalThe Seattle International Film Festival , held annually in Seattle, Washington since 1976, is among the top film festivals in North America. Audiences have grown steadily; the 2006 festival had 160,000 attendees...
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