Catalina Sandino Moreno
Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Template:Infobox person Catalina Sandino Moreno (born 19 April 1981) is a Colombian actress. She is known for her nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as sharing the Silver Bear with Charlize Theron, for her performance in the lead role in Maria Full of Grace (2004).
Moreno's other film and television credits include Fast Food Nation (2006), Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), Che (2008), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), Roa (2013), A Most Violent Year (2014), Falling Skies (2014), American Gothic (2016), Custody (2016), The Affair (2015–2019), The Quarry (2020), Barbarians (2021), From (2022–present), Silent Night (2023), and Ballerina (2025).
Early life
Catalina Sandino Moreno was born 19 April 1981 in Bogotá, Colombia.<ref name="hello">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She grew up in a middle-class family; her father is a veterinarian and her mother a pathologist. She attended an English-taught school,<ref name="castro"/> Saint George's School in Bogotá, Colombia. Before becoming an actress, she studied advertising.<ref name="hello"/>
Career
2004–2010
In 2004, Sandino Moreno landed a main role in the film Maria Full of Grace,<ref name="hello"/> where she was among 800 other girls casting for the lead role as María Alvarez, a Colombian girl who works in a flower plantation when she was pregnant and then as a drug mule. For her performance in the film, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 77th Academy Awards.<ref name="77thOscar">Template:Cite news</ref> For her performance, she also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival, shared with Charlize Theron for Monster.<ref name="hello"/>
After the impact of her Oscar nomination, Sandino Moreno waited three years for a role that appealed to her.<ref name="blood">Template:Cite magazine</ref> She elaborated in an interview with V magazine<ref name="blood"/> that she felt a responsibilityTemplate:Spaced en dashas an actress, Colombian immigrant, and as a personTemplate:Spaced en dashto perform reality, so that people learn, believing it was important to show people what is happening in the world.<ref name="blood"/>
In 2005, Sandino Moreno moved to New York City to study dramatic arts and to continue with her career success, and was invited to join AMPAS. In 2006, she played roles in independent film Fast Food Nation,<ref name="tv">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Paris, je t'aime, where she starred as Ana, a young immigrant mother in the segment "Loin du 16e".<ref name="tv" /> In 2007, she starred as Hildebranda Sánchez in Love in the Time of Cholera,<ref name="tv" /> based on the 1985 novel by Gabriel García Márquez. In 2008, she appeared in Steven Soderbergh's Che,<ref name="tv"/> playing the role of Aleida March de Guevara, the second wife of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and attended the premiere at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. In 2010, she played the role of vampire Maria in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, adapted from the novel by Stephenie Meyer.<ref name="tv"/>
2010–present
After a break in her career, in November 2013, Sandino Moreno was announced to play the title role in the biopic Castro's Daughter, based on Alina Fernández's autobiography of the same name, though the film was not produced.<ref name="castro">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She starred in films Roa (2013),<ref name="tv"/> and appeared in A Most Violent Year (2014).<ref name="tv"/> On October 20, 2014, it was announced that she would be joining the fifth and final season of Falling Skies in a recurring role as Isabella.<ref name="Falling">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2016, Sandino Moreno starred in the TV series American Gothic as a recurring character, Christina Morales.<ref name="tv"/> In the same year, she returned to the world of cinema in the movie Custody (2016).<ref name="custody"/> The film was premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.<ref name="custody">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In December 2022, Sandino Moreno was announced to join the John Wick spin-off film Ballerina as Lena Macarro.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2023, she played Saya Godluck in the John Woo action thriller Silent Night.<ref name="woo">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Personal life
Sandino Moreno was one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful Women" in 2005.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Sandino Moreno met motion picture electrician David Elwell while working on Maria Full of Grace. The couple married on 15 April 2006 in a small ceremony held in Cartagena de Indias.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Filmography
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| 2013 | The Bridge | Alma Ruiz | 9 episodes | ||
| 2014 | Red Band Society | Eva Palacios | 3 episodes | ||
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29 episodes |
| 2016 | American Gothic | Christina Morales | 6 episodes | ||
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Awards and nominations
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See also
References
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