Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
Nov 05, 1968 (56 years old)

Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

Known For

The Low Land
1h 36m
Movie 2025

The Low Land

Carmen, a well-known writer on her fifties, has returned a year ago to a farmhouse in the small town where she was born, in Bajo Aragón (Teruel, Spain). Her vital crisis is complicated when Eduardo, a film producer with whom she had a love affair twenty years ago reappears in her life.

Breathless
TV Show 2024

Breathless

A passionate medical team is devoted to saving lives in a bustling public hospital where tensions — and romance — keep their pulses racing.

The First Look
1h 15m
Movie 2024

The First Look

In Spain, a poor country ruined by the recent Civil War (1936-39), and in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a film school was created in Madrid in 1947, which became, almost unintentionally, a space of freedom and pure experimentation until its closure in 1976.

Something Is About to Happen
2h 3m
Movie 2023

Something Is About to Happen

After losing her job as a computer programmer, Lucía decides to become a cab driver.

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
1h 32m
Movie 2023

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite

A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances.

Under Her Control
1h 49m
Movie 2022

Under Her Control

When a fashion employee thinks she will have to end her promising career after getting pregnant, her boss offers to adopt the child.

El Corazón del Imperio
0h 50m
TV Show 2021

El Corazón del Imperio

Parallel Mothers
2h 3m
Movie 2021

Parallel Mothers

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (born 5 November 1968 in Rome, Italy) is a Spanish-Italian film actress. Best known for playing dramatic roles in Spain, Sánchez-Gijón is known in the United States 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) in A Walk in the Clouds (1995). She has since built a reputation as an international star in films such as Manuel Gomez Pereira's Boca a Boca (1996), Bigas Luna's The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997), Jaime Chavarri's Sus Ojos Se Cerraron (1998), Gabriele Salvatores' adaptation of the Niccolò Ammaniti novel I'm not scared (2003) and Brad Anderson's The Machinist (2004). Description above from the Wikipedia article Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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