Nailea Norvind
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Nailea Norvind is a Mexican
television actress who also appeared in the critically acclaimed film Gaby: A True Story
. She also lent her voice to play Princess Kida in the Spanish dubbing of Atlantis: The Lost Empire
.
She started her career at a young age but is still most remembered from her role as the villain Leonor in the telenovela
Quinceañera.
-born psychosexual counselor, dominatrix
, writer, producer, director and former actress Eva Norvind
who was in turn the daughter of a Russia
n prince and a Scandinavia
n sculptress. However, Nailea has been estranged from her mother since she was 12. Nailea has two daughters of her own: Naian and Tessa.
Nailea is a graduate of Televisa
acting school (Centro de Educación Artística
) and started her acting career at the age of 6 in theatre A Doll's House by Ibsen; and in TV on the telenovela Chispita starred by the child singer Lucero (then an actress called "Lucerito"). Nailea's biggest break came in at the age of 17 with the telenovela Quinceañera opposite Adela Noriega
and singer Thalía
. The same year she participated in the film Gaby: A True Story
. After a few small roles in several other telenovelas she made Cuando llega el amor again with Lucero and then took a break from television. She returned eight years later on the telenovela Preciosa. She has since then obtained roles in six more telenovelas as well as the sitcom Diseñador ambos sexos with Héctor Suárez Gomís
. In 2002 she was one of the guests in the first VIP edition of Big Brother
-Mexico.
In 2006, Nailea completed the film that her mother, Eva Norvind, had been directing and producing at the time of her death in May of that same year. Entitled Born Without, it is a documentary about severely handicapped Mexican actor and musician Jose Flores. In March 2007, Born Without won Best International Documentary at the Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporaneo de la Ciudad De Mexico (FICCO
).
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
television actress who also appeared in the critically acclaimed film Gaby: A True Story
Gaby: A True Story
Gaby: A True Story is a 1987 American-Mexican drama film directed by Luis Mandoki and written by Michael Love and Martín Salinas. It chronicles the life of Gabriela Brimmer, Mexican writer and disability rights activist.- Plot :...
. She also lent her voice to play Princess Kida in the Spanish dubbing of Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Atlantis: The Lost Empire is a 2001 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. Written by Tab Murphy, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, and produced by Don Hahn, it is the first science fiction film in the Disney animated features canon and the 41st overall. The film...
.
She started her career at a young age but is still most remembered from her role as the villain Leonor in the telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
Quinceañera.
Biography
She is the daughter of NorwegianNorway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
-born psychosexual counselor, dominatrix
Dominatrix
Dominatrix or mistress is a woman or women who takes the dominant role in bondage, discipline and sadomasochism, or BDSM. A common form of address for a submissive to a dominatrix is "mistress", "ma'am", "domina" or "maîtresse"...
, writer, producer, director and former actress Eva Norvind
Eva Norvind
Eva Norvind was a writer, documentary producer, director, sex therapist/ dominatrix, and former actress of the cinema of Mexico...
who was in turn the daughter of a Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n prince and a Scandinavia
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...
n sculptress. However, Nailea has been estranged from her mother since she was 12. Nailea has two daughters of her own: Naian and Tessa.
Nailea is a graduate of Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...
acting school (Centro de Educación Artística
Centro de Educación Artística
The Centro de Educación Artística of Televisa is an entertainment educational institution in Latin America. It was founded on September 26, 1978 and it is located in the facilities of Televisa San Ángel in Mexico City....
) and started her acting career at the age of 6 in theatre A Doll's House by Ibsen; and in TV on the telenovela Chispita starred by the child singer Lucero (then an actress called "Lucerito"). Nailea's biggest break came in at the age of 17 with the telenovela Quinceañera opposite Adela Noriega
Adela Noriega
Adela Amalia Noriega Méndez , better known as Adela Noriega , is a Mexican actress. Noriega is best known for her starring roles in telenovelas. She came to prominence as a teenager, starring in teen-oriented coming-of-age telenovelas in the late 1980s...
and singer Thalía
Thalía
Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda , known simply by the mononym Thalía , is a Mexican singer and actress. She has sold over 40 million albums worldwide...
. The same year she participated in the film Gaby: A True Story
Gaby: A True Story
Gaby: A True Story is a 1987 American-Mexican drama film directed by Luis Mandoki and written by Michael Love and Martín Salinas. It chronicles the life of Gabriela Brimmer, Mexican writer and disability rights activist.- Plot :...
. After a few small roles in several other telenovelas she made Cuando llega el amor again with Lucero and then took a break from television. She returned eight years later on the telenovela Preciosa. She has since then obtained roles in six more telenovelas as well as the sitcom Diseñador ambos sexos with Héctor Suárez Gomís
Héctor Suárez Gomís
Héctor Suárez Gomís is a Mexican actor and former singer. Formerly known as Héctor Suárez Jr. and Héctor Suárez hijo, he is the son of Héctor Suárez, also an actor and of Pepita Gomís a television host....
. In 2002 she was one of the guests in the first VIP edition of Big Brother
Big Brother (TV series)
Big Brother is a television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are usually fewer than 15 participants. The housemates try to win a cash...
-Mexico.
In 2006, Nailea completed the film that her mother, Eva Norvind, had been directing and producing at the time of her death in May of that same year. Entitled Born Without, it is a documentary about severely handicapped Mexican actor and musician Jose Flores. In March 2007, Born Without won Best International Documentary at the Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporaneo de la Ciudad De Mexico (FICCO
FICCO
Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival, or FICCO for its initials in Spanish was an annual film festival that began in February 2004 and finished in 2010....
).
Films
- La Otra Familia (2011) as Nina
- Born Without (2007) as herself
- Zapata's Gold
- Atlantis: The Lost EmpireAtlantis: The Lost EmpireAtlantis: The Lost Empire is a 2001 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. Written by Tab Murphy, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, and produced by Don Hahn, it is the first science fiction film in the Disney animated features canon and the 41st overall. The film...
(2001) as Princess Kida in the Spanish languageSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
version - Gaby: A True StoryGaby: A True StoryGaby: A True Story is a 1987 American-Mexican drama film directed by Luis Mandoki and written by Michael Love and Martín Salinas. It chronicles the life of Gabriela Brimmer, Mexican writer and disability rights activist.- Plot :...
(1987) as Terry
Plays
- Edward II
- Memoria
- Electra
- Opción Múltiple (2004)
- Muerte Súbita
- Las mariposas son libres
- Honor
- Casa de muñecas
- Robin Hood
- Jesucristo Superestrella (Jesus Christ SuperstarJesus Christ SuperstarJesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...
) - Kumán
- José el soñador (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor DreamcoatJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor DreamcoatJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...
) - Those Darn Kids
- Genesis One
Television shows
- Capadocia 2a temporada
- Tiempo Final
- Hermanos y Detectives
- Mujeres Asesinas
- Big Brother VIP: México (2002)
- Diseñador ambos sexos (2001)
- Cachún cachún ra ra! (1985–1987) as Aïda
Telenovelas
- Para Volver a Amar (2010) as Valeria Andrade de Longoria/Marleni Esparza
- Hermanos y detectives (2009)
- Cuidado con el AngelCuidado con el ángelCuidado Con El Ángel is a Telenovela distributed by Televisa. It stars Maite Perroni and William Levy. The telenovela, a production of Nathalie Lartilleux, premiered on June 9, 2008 and finished its broadcast March 6, 2009 and was greatly admired around the globe with millions of views worldwide...
(2008) as Viviana Meijer Montenegro de San Roman - Mujeres Asesinas(2008) Martha, Asfixiante
- Zapata's Gold(2005)
- RebeldeRebeldeRebelde was a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and created by Cris Morena. It is a remake of a famous Argentine series Rebelde Way adapted for the Mexican audience therefore leading to differences in characters' backgrounds. The series ran for three seasons, the final episode airing in...
(2006) as Marina Caceres Colucci - Mujer de MaderaMujer de MaderaMujer de Madera is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa in 2004. One unusual feature of this telenovela is that the main character is played by different actresses before and after her stay in hospital due to a forest fire....
(2004) as Viviana - Amigas y rivalesAmigas y rivalesAmigas y rivales is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 2001.- Plot :Amigas y Rivales tells the story of four women from different social backgrounds...
(2001) as Paula - Abrázame muy fuerteAbrázame Muy FuerteAbrázame muy fuerte is a Mexican telenovela that aired in 2000–2001, under the production of Salvador Mejia and with Aracely Arámbula and Fernando Colunga as the protagonists.-Plot:...
(2000) as Deborah Falcón de Rivero - Amor gitanoAmor Gitano"Amor gitano" is a latin pop duet song by Mexican singer Alejandro Fernández and American R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles. The song contains a mixture of cultures, mostly influenced by the exotic language of Fernández, that is Spanish, and Knowles' pop and R&B influences...
(1999) as Isa Valenti - Preciosa (1998) as Valeria San Roman de Santander
- Cuando llega el amorCuando llega el AmorCuando llega el amor is a telenovela made by Mexican TV network Televisa. It is a telenovela aimed to young audience, set in Mexico. This telenovela was broadcasted in 1990.-Plot:...
(1990) as Alejandra - Lo blanco y lo negro (1989) as Selma Alcazar
- EncadenadosEncadenadosEncadenados is the title of a very popular song written by Carlos Arturo Briz. This track has been recorded by a handful of artist including: Gualberto Castro, Luis Miguel, Nana Caymmi, Oscar Chavez, Dyango, Alejandro Fernández, Los Hermanos Reyes, Luishino, Armando Manzanero, Luis Miguel, Mina,...
(1988) as Mariela - Quinceañera (1987) as Leonor
- Pobre juventud (1986) as Gaby
- GuadalupeGuadalupe (telenovela)Guadalupe is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo in conjuction with Capitalvision International Corp. and Televisión Española from 1993, starring Adela Noriega and Eduardo Yáñez.- Summary :...
(1984) as Nani - ChispitaChispita (Telenovela)Chispita ' is a telenovela made by Mexican TV network Televisa. It is a familiar telenovela, set in Mexico. This telenovela was broadcast in 1983...
(1983) as Sarita
External links
- Nailea Norvind at the telenovela database
- Review of 'Born Without' in Variety
- doblajedisney.com, the Disney voices database