Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

Born: 1968-11-05

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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as Marie
Released: 2004-07-02

Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange...

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A Walk in the Clouds

as Victoria Aragón
Released: 1995-05-27

World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during...

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Parallel Mothers

as Teresa
Released: 2021-10-08

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a...

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The Backwoods

as Isabel
Released: 2006-09-24

An English couple's holiday in Spain is interrupted when they discover a girl imprisoned in a cabin.

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Thi Mai

as Elvira
Released: 2018-01-12

After losing her daughter in an accident, Carmen loses all incentive to keep going, until she...

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I'm Not Scared

as Anna
Released: 2003-02-08

While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the...

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Under Her Control

as Beatriz
Released: 2022-04-29

When a fashion employee thinks she will have to end her promising career after getting pregnant,...

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Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health

as Model
Released: 1997-07-01

Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them.

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Drifters

as Vima
Released: 2011-09-09

A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee.

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The Misfits Club

as Madre de Valeria
Released: 2014-12-25

Valeria has just moved to Madrid after her parent's separation. What at first seems a bad start...

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Tell Me About Love

as Nicole
Released: 2008-02-14

Sasha is a 25-year-old orphan who asks Nicole, a married Frenchwoman in her forties, for advice...

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Jealousy

as Carmen
Released: 1999-09-03

A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her...

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Something Is About to Happen

as Roberta
Released: 2023-11-17

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

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Volaverunt

as Duquesa de Alba
Released: 1999-10-01

The story revolves around Goya's womanising and the mysterious death of the Duchess of Alba at...

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Rowing with the Wind

as Teresa Guiccioli
Released: 1989-07-01

In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord...

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Maktub

as Beatriz
Released: 2011-12-16

The title refers to those strange coincidences that happen to us sometimes and that seem...

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The Chambermaid on the Titanic

as Marie
Released: 1997-10-10

Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In...

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The Sea and the Weather

as Mer
Released: 1989-06-15

Jesus returns to Spain after a long exile in Argentina. The family he meets is very different...

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Love Walked In

as Vicky Rivas
Released: 1997-01-18

Two romantically involved down-and-out lounge singers get involved in a caper.

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Going Down in Morocco

as Elena
Released: 1989-04-11

A girl who lives with her dealer cousin and her policeman boyfriend who is a policeman regularly...

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Mouth to Mouth

as Amanda
Released: 1995-11-10

For financial reasons an unemployed aspiring actor works for a phone-sex enterprise. One day he...

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The Nautical Chart

as Tánger Soto
Released: 2007-08-31

Coy, a sailor without ship, banished from the sea by a navigation accident occurred during his...

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Romanza final (Gayarre)

as Alicia
Released: 1986-04-29

Biography of Julian Gayarre (1844-1890), one of the best tenors of all times. At 19, a professor...

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A Man, a Real One

as Dolores
Released: 2003-05-28

A shy computer expert falls in love with a beautiful colleague while trying to become a film...

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

as Self - Actress
Released: 2023-11-10

A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he...

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The Whore and the Whale

as Vera
Released: 2004-04-01

A Spanish writer finds an old coffer with photographs of an Argentine man who fought and died in...

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Wounded Animals

as Claudia
Released: 2006-02-10

Silvio is a well-to-do business executive who is seemingly happily married to Marcia. However,...

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The First Look

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2023-10-23

The foundation in Madrid of the Institute of Investigations and Cinematographic Experiences...

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Mi otro Jon

as uncredited
Released: 2023-10-20

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Express Oviedo

as Mariola Mayo
Released: 2007-10-31

All hell breaks loose when an eccentric theatrical ensemble arrives in Oviedo, Spain to stage a...

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The Perfect Husband

as Klara
Released: 1993-06-02

Dostoevsky-inspired drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time...

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Jarrapellejos

as Isabel
Released: 1988-09-11

Pedro Jarrapellejos is a ladies man who cannot turn the heads of Isabel or her beautiful...

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Without a Trace

as Ana
Released: 2001-03-23

A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on...

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The Bird of Happiness

as Nani
Released: 1993-05-05

While some people need to be surrounded by friends to be happy, Carmen (Mercedes Sampietro) is...

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With Good Reason

as uncredited
Released: 2004-11-12

A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar....

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The Greek Labyrinth

as Bernadette
Released: 1993-01-08

Two Frenchmen, Bernadette and Lebrum, arrive in Barcelona and hire detective Bardon to find...

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Velvet Colección: Grand Finale

as Blanca Soto Fernández
Released: 2020-03-06

Christmas 1969: the upcoming sale of Velvet brings the former and current staff together in...

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Querido Fotogramas

as Self
Released: 2018-10-05

The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage...

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Teresa

as Doña Jimena
Released: 2015-11-17

A new vision of the figure of Saint Teresa through the eyes of a young woman of our day who...

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Anatomy of a Dandy

as Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: 2020-11-20

An account of the life and work of genius Spanish writer Francisco Umbral (1932-2007), author of...

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Disco Inferno

as uncredited
Released: 2015-08-31

An infernal civil servant is on a mission to rescue her boss. But the Devil is not ready to get...

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Blind Man's Bluff

as Bianca
Released: 1994-06-29

A young heiress, Bianca, blind following an accident, stays in a beautiful hotel in the...

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Tangos Are for Two

as Juanita
Released: 1998-01-23

A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's...

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The Low Land

as Carmen Membrado
Released: 2025-01-31

Carmen, a well-known writer on her fifties, has returned a year ago to a farmhouse in the small...

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La Regenta

as uncredited
Released: 1995-01-17

The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm...

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Yerma

as Yerma
Released: 1999-02-26

Yerma is desperate to have children, so when a psychic advises her to look outside her marriage...

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Alex's Strip

as Vera
Released: 2020-06-26

After a long time, Alexandra is reunited with her father Álex, a Spanish-Maghrebi businessman,...

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The Frost

as Rita
Released: 2009-09-16

A couple's marriage falls apart after the death of their son. Based on Henrik Ibsen's "Little Eyolf"

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La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado

as Maria de Loffredo
Released: 1996-04-22

At the end of the seventeenth century, in Naples, still dominated by the Spaniards, a young...

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The Widow from Valencia

as Leonarda
Released: 2010-12-28

Tv movie adaptation of "The Widow from Valencia",a play written by the Spanish playwright Lope...

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Hombres felices

as uncredited
Released: 2001-06-15

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Volcánica

as uncredited
Released: 2018-10-21

Carlota has an open war with the caretaker of her community, Candela, whom she considers a...

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Mi dulce

as Ángela
Released: 2001-05-04

Laura is a fifteen-year-old teenager who receives a letter from her mother, of which she had no...

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La muerte de Otilia Ruiz

as Blanca Lupino
Released: 2011-04-02

Otilia Ruiz is the last link in a chain of women, marked by tragedy. Otilia looks desperately...

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El crimen de Perpignan

as Yvette Romero
Released: 1991-02-20

Perpignan, 1971. A toy factory supervisor becomes obsessed with a newly hired employee. To be...

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Redondela

as Luisa Peña
Released: 1987-02-09

4,000 tons of oil have been stolen from a Galician deposit. The alleged thieves are defended by...

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The Monk

as Sister Ines
Released: 1990-01-17

In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his...

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Havanera 1820

as Amelia Roig
Released: 1993-05-21

The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods...

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The Frontier Law

as Bárbara Miller Molina
Released: 1995-08-23

Barbara, a journalist in the beginning of the 20th century, searches in the border between...

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Carta mortal

as uncredited
Released: 2003-12-01

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Survivor's Day

as Elena Paz
Released: 2023-03-26

Malvivir tells in first person the secret life of the rogue Elena de Paz, a free, rebellious,...

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Ruleta

as uncredited
Released: 1999-01-01

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La mujer impuntual

as uncredited
Released: 1994-10-20

The unpunctual woman.

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Fish Bones

as Carmen
Released: 2021-11-05

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Velvet

as Blanca Soto
First aired: 2014-01-17

In 1950s Spain, the heir to a fashion house romances a beautiful seamstress who works for the...

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Breathless

as Pilar Amaro
First aired: 2024-08-30

A passionate medical team is devoted to saving lives in a bustling public hospital where...

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Martínez y hermanos

as Self - Guest
First aired: 2022-04-21

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Estoy vivo

as Comisaria Verónica "Vero" Ruiz
First aired: 2017-09-07

A policeman dies chasing a serial killer and is reincarnated in another policeman five years...

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The Velvet Collection

as Blanca Soto
First aired: 2017-09-22

It is the year 1967. After five happy years of marriage in New York with Alberto and their young...

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La Regenta

as Ana Ozores
First aired: 1995-01-17

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El Corazón del Imperio

as Julia Mesa
First aired: 2021-11-25

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Segunda Enseñanza

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-01-23

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Los 80

as Nuria Acosta
First aired: 2004-09-08

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