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Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Born: 5th Nov 1968 Rome, Lazio, Italy
Dept: Acting
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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).
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 80
Film: 70 (88%)
Television: 10 (13%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Talk, Music, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Soap, Family, Action
Filmography
Original title: Amarga Navidad
2026
After her mother dies in December, advertising director Elsa immerses herself in work to cope. When a panic attack forces her to take a break, she dec ... view
Character:
Mónica
Original title: Tierra Baja
2025
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, Spai ... view
Character:
Carmen Membrado
Sep 2024 (first aired)
David Broncano, along with Jorge Ponce, Ricardo Castella and his other collaborators, lead La Revuelta, a comedy show that includes multiple sections ... view
Character:
Self - Guest (1 ep.)
Aug 2024 (first aired)
A passionate medical team is devoted to saving lives in a bustling public hospital where tensions — and romance — keep their pulses racing. ... view
Character:
Pilar Amaro (16 ep.)
Original title: La primera mirada: historia de una escuela de cine
2024
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 1 ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
Original title: Que nadie duerma
2023
After losing her job as a computer programmer, Lucía decides to become a cab driver. ... view
Character:
Roberta
Original title: La memoria del cine: una película sobre Fernando Méndez-Leite
2023
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 re ... view
Character:
Self - Actress
Original title: Mi otro Jon
2023
Merche, about to turn 76, is told that she doesn't have long left to live. Unable to travel to watch the sea for last time, she accepts a medical expe ... view
Character:
Original title: Malvivir
2023
Malvivir tells in first person the secret life of the rogue Elena de Paz, a free, rebellious, thieving, ingenious, deceitful and fugitive woman who de ... view
Character:
Elena Paz
Original title: La jefa
2022
When a fashion employee thinks she will have to end her promising career after getting pregnant, her boss offers to adopt the child. ... view
Character:
Beatriz
Original title: Madres paralelas
2021
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 ... view
Character:
Teresa
Original title: Anatomía de un dandy
2020
An account of the life and work of genius Spanish writer Francisco Umbral (1932-2007), author of almost 200 books and more than 1000 articles; as well ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
Original title: La cinta de Álex
2020
After a long time, Alexandra is reunited with her father Álex, a Spanish-Maghrebi businessman, and accompanies him on a business trip to Jaisalmer, i ... view
Character:
Vera
2020
Christmas 1969: the upcoming sale of Velvet brings the former and current staff together in Madrid for good memories, a second chance and a new beginn ... view
Character:
Blanca Soto Fernández
2018
Carlota has an open war with the caretaker of her community, Candela, whom she considers a person at risk. Carlota did not always know that HIV does n ... view
Character:
2018
The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mos ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Thi Mai, rumbo a Vietnam
2018
After losing her daughter in an accident, Carmen loses all incentive to keep going, until she receives an unexpected letter from the adoption agency: ... view
Character:
Elvira
Sep 2017 (first aired)
It is the year 1967. After five happy years of marriage in New York with Alberto and their young son, Anna Ribera returns to Spain to take her project ... view
Character:
Blanca Soto (10 ep.)
Sep 2017 (first aired)
A policeman dies chasing a serial killer and is reincarnated in another policeman five years later, granted immortality in exchange of never revealing ... view
Character:
Comisaria Verónica "Vero" Ruiz (13 ep.)
2015
A new vision of the figure of Saint Teresa through the eyes of a young woman of our day who reads one of the main works written by the saint, The Book ... view
Character:
Doña Jimena
2015
An infernal civil servant is on a mission to rescue her boss. But the Devil is not ready to get back to her daily routine. ... view
Character:
Original title: El Club de los Incomprendidos
2014
Valeria has just moved to Madrid after her parent's separation. What at first seems a bad start for her new life becomes the beginning of an amazing l ... view
Character:
Madre de Valeria
Jan 2014 (first aired)
In 1950s Spain, the heir to a fashion house romances a beautiful seamstress who works for the company, despite the objections of his family. ... view
Character:
Blanca Soto (54 ep.)
2011
The title refers to those strange coincidences that happen to us sometimes and that seem inevitable, like a product of destiny. Inspired by the experi ... view
Character:
Beatriz
Original title: Gli sfiorati
2011
A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee. ... view
Character:
Vima
2011
Otilia Ruiz is the last link in a chain of women, marked by tragedy. Otilia looks desperately for an exit, but she doesn't know that, after entering t ... view
Character:
Blanca Lupino
Original title: La viuda valenciana
2010
Tv movie adaptation of "The Widow from Valencia",a play written by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega. It was written circa 1600 as a result of Lope' ... view
Character:
Leonarda
2009
A couple's marriage falls apart after the death of their son. Based on Henrik Ibsen's "Little Eyolf" ... view
Character:
Rita
Original title: Parlami d'amore
2008
Sasha is a 25-year-old orphan who asks Nicole, a married Frenchwoman in her forties, for advice to seduce Benedetta, his long-unrequited love. The two ... view
Character:
Nicole
2007
All hell breaks loose when an eccentric theatrical ensemble arrives in Oviedo, Spain to stage a production of the Leopoldo Alas play -La Regenta. ... view
Character:
Mariola Mayo
Original title: La carta esférica
2007
Coy, a sailor without ship, banished from the sea by a navigation accident occurred during his guard, knows in an auction of naval objects in Barcelon ... view
Character:
Tánger Soto
Original title: Bosque de sombras
2006
An English couple's holiday in Spain is interrupted when they discover a girl imprisoned in a cabin. ... view
Character:
Isabel
2006
A watchmaker from Soweto finds a shoebox out of which he makes an improvised camera, aligns two lenses, and by looking through them, discovers images ... view
Character:
Original title: Animals ferits
2006
Silvio is a well-to-do business executive who is seemingly happily married to Marcia. However, Silvio is convinced Marcia is cheating on him, and freq ... view
Character:
Claudia
Original title: ¡Hay motivo!
2004
A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. ... view
Character:
2004
Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to ... view
Character:
Marie
Original title: La puta y la ballena
2004
A Spanish writer finds an old coffer with photographs of an Argentine man who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War, and of a woman. Her quest for ... view
Character:
Vera
Original title: Un homme, un vrai
2003
A shy computer expert falls in love with a beautiful colleague while trying to become a film director. Five years later, they have two children, she h ... view
Character:
Dolores
Original title: Io non ho paura
2003
In a tiny community enclosed by wheat fields, the adults shelter indoors, while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted ... view
Character:
Anna
2001
A sharp comedy about a group of men who seek happiness at any cost. They are immature, sexist, and obsessed with sex, especially oral sex. On the othe ... view
Character:
Ana
2001
Laura is a fifteen-year-old teenager who receives a letter from her mother, of which she had no news a decade ago. Laura decides to try to go to Holla ... view
Character:
Ángela
Original title: Sin dejar huella
2001
A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape. ... view
Character:
Ana
Original title: Volavérunt
1999
The story revolves around Goya's womanising and the mysterious death of the Duchess of Alba at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Centuries ... view
Character:
Cayetana, Duquesa de Alba
Original title: Celos
1999
A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions ... view
Character:
Carmen
1999
Yerma is desperate to have children, so when a psychic advises her to look outside her marriage to conceive, what can she say but yes? ... view
Character:
Yerma
Original title: Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando
1998
A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story un ... view
Character:
Juanita
Original title: La femme de chambre du Titanic
1997
Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Ti ... view
Character:
Marie
Original title: El amor perjudica seriamente la salud
1997
Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them. ... view
Character:
Model
Original title: Y llegó el amor
1997
Two romantically involved down-and-out lounge singers get involved in a caper. ... view
Character:
Vicky Rivas
1996
At the end of the seventeenth century, in Naples, still dominated by the Spaniards, a young pupil, Balthasar,is castrated to preserve the purity and b ... view
Character:
Maria de Loffredo
Original title: Boca a Boca
1995
For financial reasons, an aspiring actor begins working for a phone-sex enterprise. Through his new line of work, he develops relationships with two r ... view
Character:
Amanda
Original title: La ley de la frontera
1995
Barbara, a journalist in the beginning of the 20th century, searches in the border between Portugal and Galicia a bandit called El Argentino. In her t ... view
Character:
Bárbara Miller Molina
1995
World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she c ... view
Character:
Victoria Aragón
1995
The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's ... view
Character:
Jan 1995 (first aired)
The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores’ ... view
Character:
Ana Ozores (3 ep.)
Original title: Moscacieca
1994
A young heiress, Bianca, blind following an accident, stays in a beautiful hotel in the Caribbean. The business is managed by Anna and her beautiful n ... view
Character:
Bianca
Original title: El marido perfecto
1993
A drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time seducing other men's wives and dueling. He begins an affair with his friend ... view
Character:
Klara
1993
The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods that arrive to Cuba are not always the products that ... view
Character:
Amelia Roig
Original title: El pájaro de la felicidad
1993
While some people need to be surrounded by friends to be happy, Carmen (Mercedes Sampietro) is perfectly content by herself, pursuing her vocation as ... view
Character:
Nani
Original title: El laberinto griego
1993
Two Frenchmen, Bernadette and Lebrum, arrive in Barcelona and hire detective Bardon to find Alekos, the former Greek lover of the woman. ... view
Character:
Bernadette
Original title: Deseo oculto
1992
Short film shot in 1992 starring Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Toni Castro. ... view
Character:
Julia
1991
Perpignan, 1971. A toy factory supervisor becomes obsessed with a newly hired employee. To be with her, he plans the perfect crime: Training his lover ... view
Character:
Yvette Romero
1990
In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace. B ... view
Character:
Sister Ines
Original title: El mar y el tiempo
1989
Jesus returns to Spain after a long exile in Argentina. The family he meets is very different from the one he left: they live under the sadness of bei ... view
Character:
Mer
Original title: Bajarse al moro
1989
A girl who lives with her dealer cousin and her policeman boyfriend who is a policeman regularly transports drugs from Morocco for her cousin. As all ... view
Character:
Elena
1988
One night, as in an apparition, Andres meets Marga, his first and only love. But before it can reach her it evaporates again. This appearance makes An ... view
Character:
Charo
Original title: Remando al viento
1988
In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each to write a h ... view
Character:
Teresa Guiccioli
1988
Pedro Jarrapellejos is a ladies man who cannot turn the heads of Isabel or her beautiful daughter. When both peasant women are found raped and murdere ... view
Character:
Isabel
1988
Two soldiers accompanied by two women enter the Baztán valley on horseback. They are deserters from the army of the Indies who are fleeing to Italy. ... view
Character:
1987
4,000 tons of oil have been stolen from a Galician deposit. The alleged thieves are defended by the lawyer Ramos, but the witnesses die and suspicions ... view
Character:
Luisa Peña
1986
Biography of Julian Gayarre (1844-1890), one of the best tenors of all times. At 19, a professor at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid heard him sing ... view
Character:
Alicia
