Catalina Sandino Moreno (born 19 April 1981) is a Colombian actress.
She shared the Silver Bear with Charlize Theron and received a
nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in
Maria Full of Grace (2004).Sandino Moreno was born in Bogotá,
Colombia. She grew up in a middle-class family, her father is a vet
and her mother a pathologist. She attended Saint George's School in
Bogotá, Colombia. Before becoming an actress, she studied advertising
at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá.In 2003, casting calls
for Maria Full of Grace were conducted in both New York and Colombia
where she was initially noticed for her talent at the acting school in
Bogotá. She was then referred to a casting audition where she beat
over 900 girls for the lead role. She left the college to begin her
first movie project. Starring Sandino Moreno as MarÃa Alvarez, a
Colombian girl who works in a flower plantation when she was pregnant
and then as a drug mule. Sandino Moreno's role in this movie was
acclaimed, receiving positive critics form different websites and film
critic's sites. This performance made her the first Colombian, the
second South American, and third Hispanic actress nominated for an
Academy Award. She was the first person born in the 1980s to have
received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Also, she won
the Silver Bear at Berlin International Film Festival shared with
Charlize Theron and received a nomination to Screen Actors Guild
Award.In 2005, she moved to New York City to study dramatic arts and
for continue with her success career at the moment, and was invited to
join AMPAS. In 2006, she played roles in independent film Fast Food
Nation with Patricia Arquette, and Paris, je t'aime, where she starred
as a young immigrant mother in the segment "Loin du 16e". In 2007, she
starred Hildebranda Sánchez in Love in the Time of Cholera, based in
novel of the same name by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, where she appeared
alongside Javier Bardem and Fernanda Montenegro.
She shared the Silver Bear with Charlize Theron and received a
nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in
Maria Full of Grace (2004).Sandino Moreno was born in Bogotá,
Colombia. She grew up in a middle-class family, her father is a vet
and her mother a pathologist. She attended Saint George's School in
Bogotá, Colombia. Before becoming an actress, she studied advertising
at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá.In 2003, casting calls
for Maria Full of Grace were conducted in both New York and Colombia
where she was initially noticed for her talent at the acting school in
Bogotá. She was then referred to a casting audition where she beat
over 900 girls for the lead role. She left the college to begin her
first movie project. Starring Sandino Moreno as MarÃa Alvarez, a
Colombian girl who works in a flower plantation when she was pregnant
and then as a drug mule. Sandino Moreno's role in this movie was
acclaimed, receiving positive critics form different websites and film
critic's sites. This performance made her the first Colombian, the
second South American, and third Hispanic actress nominated for an
Academy Award. She was the first person born in the 1980s to have
received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Also, she won
the Silver Bear at Berlin International Film Festival shared with
Charlize Theron and received a nomination to Screen Actors Guild
Award.In 2005, she moved to New York City to study dramatic arts and
for continue with her success career at the moment, and was invited to
join AMPAS. In 2006, she played roles in independent film Fast Food
Nation with Patricia Arquette, and Paris, je t'aime, where she starred
as a young immigrant mother in the segment "Loin du 16e". In 2007, she
starred Hildebranda Sánchez in Love in the Time of Cholera, based in
novel of the same name by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, where she appeared
alongside Javier Bardem and Fernanda Montenegro.
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