Roxana Blanco
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Roxana Blanco | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 November 1967 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Alma mater | Margarita Xirgu Multidisciplinary School of Dramatic Art |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Awards | Florencio Award (1992, 1994, 2002) |
Roxana Blanco (born 6 November 1967) is a Uruguayan actress. She is a graduate of the Margarita Xirgu Multidisciplinary School of Dramatic Art.
Roxana Blanco is the sister of playwright Sergio Blanco. She took acting and singing classes at the Multidisciplinary School of Dramatic Art, where she graduated in the early 1990s.[1] Since then she has developed a prolific theater career, which has earned her the Florencio Award three times.[2][3] In 2012, she joined the cast of the Comedia Nacional, of which she remains a member.
At the same time, she has developed an important film and television career that has given her international recognition and multiple awards. She has participated in films of great recognition in her country and abroad, such as Artigas: La Redota by César Charlone, The Delay by Rodrigo Plá, and El muerto y ser feliz by Javier Rebollo.
For her leading role in Alma Mater by Álvaro Buela, she won the best actress award at the Biarritz Film Festival (France) in 2005.[2] She received this again in 2012 for her work in The Delay.[4]
Blanco has participated in more than twenty plays, representing texts by prominent figures of world theater. In 2009, she starred opposite Alejandra Wolff, Jenny Galván, and Andrea Davidovics in the television series Las Novias de Travolta, based on the theatrical work she had previously starred in.[5]
Theater
- Dream of Autumn by Jon Fosse
- Las novias de Travolta by Andrés Tulipano
- El lector por horas by José Sanchis Sinisterra
- Proof by David Auburn
- La Sangre by Sergi Belbel
- Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
- Agatha by Marguerite Duras
- Central Park West by Woody Allen
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Frida by Ricardo Halac
- Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
- Last of the Red Hot Lovers by Neil Simon
- Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltès
- Querido lobo by Roger Vitrac
- Richard III by William Shakespeare
- Toda nudez será castigada by Nelson Rodrigues
- Doña Rosita the Spinster by Federico García Lorca
- The Trojan Women by Euripides
- Cabaret by John Kander and Fred Ebb
- Tango by Sławomir Mrożek
With the Comedia Nacional
- Oresteia by Aeschylus
- Terrorism by the Presnyakov brothers
- Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel
- La mitad de Dios by Gabriel Calderón
- El tiempo todo entero by Romina Paula
- The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt[5]
Film
- El muerto y ser feliz by Javier Rebollo
- El sexo de las madres by Alejandra Marino
- The Delay by Rodrigo Plá
- Artigas: La Redota by César Charlone
- Nochebuena by Camila Loboguerrero
- Matar a todos by Esteban Schroeder
- Alma Mater by Álvaro Buela
- 9 by Martín Barrenechea & Nicolás Branca
