Leticia Dolera

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Leticia Dolera
Leticia Dolera, XIII Premis Gaudi (2021).jpg
Dolera at the Gaudí Awards 2021
Born (1981-10-23) 23 October 1981 (age 43)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Occupations
Years active2001–present

Leticia Dolera (born 23 October 1981) is a Spanish actress, screenwriter, and director. She is best known[ citation needed ] for her roles as Clara in the 2013 horror film REC 3: Genesis , Teresa in Imagining Argentina (2003), and as Carmen in the UK television series Mad Dogs .

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Early life

Leticia Dolera was born in Barcelona on 23 October 1981 to a single mother. [1]

Career

Her career began with the series Al salir de clase (When Class Is Over), [2] in which she played the role of Angela between 2000 and 2002. Likewise, she made her feature film debut as an actress in Bellas durmientes (2001). [3]

From there, she began a film career with titles such as The Other Side of the Bed , [2] Imagining Argentina , Semen, A Love Story [2] and Man Push Cart , a film which received three nominations at the Independent Spirit Awards.

In 2012, she starred in the third instalment of the REC series, receiving critical praise for her performance.

In the UK, she is best known for playing the character of Carmen in the Sky TV series, Mad Dogs (2012 to 2014).

In 2015 she wrote and directed the film Requirements To Be A Normal Person . [4]

In February 2018 she published the book about feminism Morder la manzana. La revolución será feminista o no será. [5] She was asked to open the La Mercè festival in Barcelona in 2018. She shared her time with Carmen Juares, a migrant from Honduras, who had spent six years in Spain as a caregiver. [6] Juares was caring for a woman with dementia in conditions that she regarded as slavery. [7]

In October 2019 premiered in Movistar+ the television series Vida perfecta , directed by and starring her, with good acceptance by critics. [8] Public scrutiny and controversy around the production of the series (then tentatively titled Déjate llevar) began in 2018, when actress Aina Clotet denounced on Twitter that Dolera had decided not to hire her for the series because Clotet was pregnant. [9]

Personal life

In 2008, Dolera married director Paco Plaza, [10] from whom she is separated. [11]

Filmography

Films

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2001
 Bellas durmientes  [ gl ]Feature film debut
2002
 El otro lado de la cama (The Other Side of the Bed)
2003
Besos de gatoCarlota
The Emperor's Wife  [ pt ]
Imagining Argentina Teresa
2005
 Semen, una historia de amor (Semen, A Love Story)Ariadna / Penélope
Man Push Cart Noemi
2008
 Prime Time Elena
2009
 Imago Mortis Leilou
2011
 De tu ventana a la mía (Chrysalis)Violeta
2012
 [REC 3]: Génesis Clara
2013
 Los últimos días (The Last Days)Andrea
2014
 Kamikaze Natalia
2015
 Requisitos para ser una persona normal (Requirements to Be a Normal Person)María de las Montañas Enríquez CondeAlso writer-director
La novia (The Bride)Mujer de Leonardo ('Leonardo's wife')
2017
 Verónica (Veronica)
2019
 ¿Qué te juegas? (Get Her... If You Can)Isabel

Television

Theatre

Short films

Music videos

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Leticia Dolera, Entrevistas deportivas en AS.com". AS.com. 16 December 2008. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
  3. ↑ "Los desconocidos orígenes de Leticia Dolera, la actriz española más controvertida". ABC . 24 March 2019.
  4. ↑ Palmarés del 18 Festival de Málaga. Cine Español Archived 12 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine in festivaldemalaga.com
  5. ↑ "Se nos llama putas si gozamos de nuestra sexualidad o monjas cuando decimos no" Archived 27 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine in cadenaser.com
  6. ↑ Piñol, Àngels (23 September 2018). "La actriz Leticia Dolera pide a Barcelona que abra los ojos". El País (in Spanish). ISSN   1134-6582 . Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  7. ↑ Sapiña, Edgar (10 May 2019). "El movimiento contra el racismo reivindica en Barcelona el derecho a voto de los migrantes". elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  8. ↑ ‘Vida perfecta’, de Leticia Dolera: Feminismo para principiantes in elpais.com (in Spanish)
  9. ↑ Aina Clotet denuncia que Leticia Dolera no la contrató para su serie por estar embarazada in elpais.com
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