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Rosana Pastor

{{Short description|Spanish politician and actress}}

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{{family name hatnote|Pastor|Muñoz|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Rosana Pastor

| image = Rosana Pastor 2017 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Pastor in 2017

| birth_name = Rosana Pastor Muñoz

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|8|7|df=y}}

| birth_place = Alboraya, Spain

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| occupation = Actress, politician

| party = Podemos (2014–Present)
Sumar (2023)
És el moment (2015–2016)
PASOC (1979–2001)
United Left (1986–2001)
PSOE (1978–1979)

}}

Rosana Pastor Muñoz (born 7 August 1960) is a Spanish politician and actress.

Biography

Rosana Pastor was born in Alboraya, province of Valencia, on 7 August 1960.{{Cite web|url=https://www.infobae.com/espana/2024/02/09/la-mujer-que-gano-el-goya-a-mejor-actriz-revelacion-y-20-anos-despues-fue-diputada-por-podemos-en-el-congreso/|website=Infobae|first=Noelia|last=Tabanera|title=La mujer que ganó el Goya a mejor actriz revelación y 20 años después fue diputada por Podemos en el Congreso|date=9 February 2024 }}

Pastor studied at the School of Dramatic Art of Valencia (ESAD). She had classes under Antonio Díaz Zamora, Antonio Tordera and Francisco Romá (director of the film Tres en raya). She acted in Ken Loach's 1995 film Land and Freedom, alongside Ian Hart and Icíar Bollaín.

Apart from her extensive career as a film and television actress, she has also worked on stage. She featured in plays such as Pessoa en Persona; Les Troyens; Uncle Vanya; La pell en Flames; and as "Joan of Arc" at the Palau de les Arts, with the Orchestra and choir of the Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana. She directed and narrated the show "Enoch Arden", that integrates the music of Richard Strauss, narration and singing.

She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 2002 Goya Awards for her role as Doña Elvira in Mad Love. She portrayed Doña Juana Coello in The El Escorial Conspiracy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20090126/rosana-pastor-vida-impregnada-personajes/222034.shtml|website=rtve.es|title=Candidata al Goya a la Mejor Actriz de Reparto Rosana Pastor, una vida impregnada de personajes|first=Esther|last=Pérez-Amat|date=26 January 2009}}

In November 2015 it was announced that she would run in the Spanish general election of the same year for Spanish left-wing political party Podemos in coalition with the left-wing Valencian nationalist Compromís. In the event, she was one of the elected MPs running for Valencia.

Selected filmography

Accolades

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{{center|1996}}10th Goya AwardsBest New ActressLand and Freedom{{won}}{{center|{{Citation |url=https://www.accioncultural.es/virtuales/premiosgoya/pdf/catalogo_expo_Goya_1987_2013.pdf|title=Viaje al cine español. 25 años de los Premios Goya|isbn=978-84-9785-791-8|year=2011|publisher=Lunwerg|pages=278; 285; 294}}}}
{{center|2002}}16th Goya AwardsBest Supporting ActressMad Love{{nom}}{{center|}}
{{center|2009}}23rd Goya AwardsBest Supporting ActressThe El Escorial Conspiracy{{nom}}{{center|}}

References

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External links

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Category:1960 births

Category:Living people

Category:Members of the 11th Congress of Deputies (Spain)

Category:Members of the 12th Congress of Deputies (Spain)

Category:People from Horta Nord

Category:Spanish film actresses

Category:Spanish Marxists

Category:Spanish socialists

Category:Spanish television actresses

Category:Women members of the Congress of Deputies (Spain)

Category:20th-century Spanish actresses

Category:21st-century Spanish actresses

Category:Actresses from the Valencian Community

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