Blanca Portillo
{{Short description|Spanish actress}}
{{BLP sources|date=January 2013}}
{{family name hatnote|Portillo|Martínez de Velasco|lang=Spanish}}
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| birth_name = Blanca Portillo Martínez de Velasco
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|6|15|df=y}}
| birth_place = Madrid, Spain
| education = RESAD
| occupation = {{Hlist|Actress|theatre director|theatre producer}}
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Blanca Portillo Martínez de Velasco (born 15 June 1963) is a Spanish film, television, and stage actress. She has also worked as theatre director and producer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elconfidencial.com/cultura/2023-03-15/mensaje-blanca-portillo-actrices-con-buen-fisico_3593298/|website=El Confidencial|title=El aplaudido mensaje de Blanca Portillo al cine que solo busca actrices con buen físico|date=15 March 2023|first=Jorge|last=García González}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.laopiniondemalaga.es/festival-cine-malaga/2023/03/12/blanca-portillo-veo-piloto-rojo-84541859.html|website=La Opinión de Málaga|publisher=Prensa Ibérica|date=12 March 2023|first=Víctor A.|last=Gómez|title=Blanca Portillo: "Veo un piloto rojo y me asusto: la cámara entra hasta el fondo"}} She made her feature film debut in Entre rojas (1995). She became popular for her portrayal of Carlota in sitcom television series Siete vidas.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/vigo/2002/01/16/blanca-portillo-veterana-actriz-siete-vidas/0003_915329.htm|website=La Voz de Galicia|date=16 January 2022|title=Blanca Portillo, una veterana actriz con muchas más de "Siete vidas"}} Portillo is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Goya Award for Best Actress.
Life and career
Blanca Portillo Martínez de Velasco was born in Madrid on 15 June 1963.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/consejodeministros/Paginas/enlaces/060215enlaceartes.aspx|website=lamongloa.gob|title=Concesión de las Medallas de Oro al Mérito a las Bellas Artes|date=6 February 2015}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.latribunadeciudadreal.es/noticia/z5f90d263-aaaf-77f2-ac13823ab7ff7f49/201601/las-mujeres-seguimos-sin-voz|website=La Tribuna de Ciudad Real|first=Diego|last=Rodríguez|date=25 January 2016|title=Las mujeres seguimos sin voz}}
Portillo started as an actress in several small theater productions. She earned a degree in drama from the RESAD.{{Cite web|url=https://cadenaser.com/andalucia/2023/03/13/el-festival-concede-el-premio-malaga-a-blanca-portillo-ser-malaga/|website=Cadena SER|date=13 March 2023|title=El Festival concede el Premio Málaga a Blanca Portillo}}
One of her most important performances afterwards was her role of Carol in Oleanna by David Mamet, directed by Joaquín Kremel in 1994.
She made her feature film debut in Entre rojas (1995).{{Cite web|url=https://www.vanitatis.elconfidencial.com/famosos/2023-07-31/blanca-portillo-dias-mejores-como-era-en-7-vidas_3711022/|website=Vanitatis|via=El Confidencial|date=31 July 2023|title=Así era Blanca Portillo hace 25 años: de '7 vidas' a 'Días mejores'|first=María|last=Serralta}} In 1996, Luis San Narciso cast her for the hit Telecinco series 7 vidas,.[http://www.7vidas.telecinco.es/dn_91.htm Javier Cámara y Blanca Portillo hablan de "7 vidas" ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904100605/http://www.7vidas.telecinco.es/dn_91.htm |date=September 4, 2011 }} The series lasted for ten years and ran for 204 episodes. Portillo played the role of Carlota, an insecure but brassy hairdresser who married Gonzalo, the owner of a bar which functioned as the central set of the show.
She played a mother in The Color of the Clouds (1997).{{Cite web|url=https://www.ecartelera.com/noticias/blanca-portillo-cumple-52-anos-filmografia-14-personajes-23573/|website=ecartelera|title=14 personajes clave de la actriz Blanca Portillo|date=15 June 2015}} Her performance in the film earned her a nomination to the Goya Award for Best New Actress. She also participated in the European Spanish dubbing of Finding Nemo. In spite of her success in film and television, she has continued taking part in stage plays both as an actress and as a director.
In 2004, she left 7 vidas to undertake a theatrical project in Argentina named La hija del aire (The daughter of Air) based on a book by Calderón de la Barca. She combined her work on this play with the film Elsa y Fred (2005) in which she plays a woman suspicious of the relationship between her elderly father and his Argentinian neighbor.
In the 2005 film Alatriste, based on a book by Arturo Pérez Reverte,[http://www.themakeupgallery.info/gender/male/alatristebp.htm make me a man: Alatriste] she played a male role, specifically that of a member of the Spanish Inquisition. She shaved her head for the role. The following year, Pedro Almodóvar cast her in his 2006 film Volver. She played Agustina, a friend of the central family who is terminally ill and looking for her missing mother.
She then appeared in Goya's Ghosts by Miloš Forman, playing 18th-century consort Maria Luisa of Parma, and landed her first starring role in a movie in Gracia Querejeta's film Seven Billiard Tables. Here she played the lover of the owner of a billiard club and the daughter of Amparo Baró, her former co-star from 7 Vidas. In 2009, she featured again in a film by Pedro Almodóvar, Broken Embraces playing the role of Judit.
Her work in recent years has seen a return to Spanish television, including a role in Hospital Central, and directing roles in the theater. She had a small role in the 2011 film As Luck Would Have It, starring alongside Salma Hayek.
She starred in the 2016 film Boy Missing.
Filmography
= Film =
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= Television=
- 7 vidas (1999–2004)
- Acusados (2009–2010){{Cite web|url=https://www.formulatv.com/noticias/44298/telecinco-cumple-25-anos-series-marcado-historia-parte-2/|website=FormulaTV|title=Telecinco cumple 25 años: recordamos 25 series que han marcado su historia (Parte 2)|date=7 March 2015|first=Oriol|last=Serra|first2=Tony|last2=López}}
- Promesas de arena (2019){{Cite web|url=https://www.diaridetarragona.com/tarragona/Una-vision-edulcorada-del-mundo-de-las-ONGs-20191122-0031.html|website=Diari de Tarragona|date=22 November 2019|title=Una visión edulcorada del mundo de las ONGs|first=Yolanda|last=Fernández}}
- Días mejores (2022){{Cite web|url=https://www.fotogramas.es/series-tv-noticias/a39769666/dias-mejores-blanca-portillo-serie-amazon-prime-video/|website=Fotogramas|title='Días mejores' con Blanca Portillo se estrena este viernes en Amazon Prime Video|date=20 April 2022|first=Mireia|last=Mullor}}
- La ley del mar (2024){{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.es/espana/comunidad-valenciana/punt-rtve-presentan-madrid-ley-mar-luis-20240110163341-nt.html|website=ABC|date=10 January 2024|title=À Punt y RTVE presentan en Madrid 'La Ley del mar' con Luis Tosar y Blanca Portillo}}
Theatre credits
Actress
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- La madre de Frankenstein (2023)
- La vida es sueño (2012)
- La avería (2012)
- Antígona (2011)
- Paseo romántico (2010-2011)
- Medea (2009)
- Hamlet (2009)
- Barroco (2007-2008)
- Mujeres soñaron caballos (2007).
- Afterplay (2006-2007).
- Hamelin (2005).
- La hija del viento (2004–2005).
- Desorientados (2003)
- Como en las mejores familias (2003).
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (2002)
- El matrimonio de Bostón (2001)
- Madre, el drama padre (1998)
- No hay burlas para el amor (1998).
- Un fénix demasiado frecuente (1997)
- Esclavos (1997)
- Mujeres frente al espejo (1996)
- El embrujado (1995)
- Un bala perdida (1995)
- Terror y miseria del Tercer Reich (1995)
- Bodas de sangre (1994)
- Oleanna (1994)
- Las troyanas (1993)
- Marat-Dade (1992)
- Cuento de invierno (1992)
- Lope de Aguirre, traidor (1988)
- El mal de la juventud (1985)
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Director
- La avería (2011)
- Siglo XX... que estás en los cielos (2006)
- Desorientados (2004)
- Shakespeare a pedazos (1999)
- Hay amores que hablan (1997)
Accolades
Candidatura al premio de Mejor Actriz Revelación (1997).
- Candidata al Premio a la Mejor Actriz de Televisión (2002).
- Candidata al premio de Mejor Actriz de Teatro (2003).
References
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{{Goya Award for Best Actress}}
{{Platino Award for Best Actress}}
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Category:Actresses from Madrid
Category:Spanish television actresses
Category:Spanish film actresses
Category:Spanish stage actresses
Category:Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress winners
Category:20th-century Spanish actresses