Roxana Blanco

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Roxana Blanco
Born (1967-11-06) 6 November 1967 (age 56)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Alma mater Margarita Xirgu Multidisciplinary School of Dramatic Art
OccupationActress
Awards Florencio Award  [ es ] (1992, 1994, 2002)

Roxana Blanco (born 6 November 1967) is a Uruguayan actress of film, theater, and television. She is a graduate of the Margarita Xirgu Multidisciplinary School of Dramatic Art.

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Biography

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  [ es ] three times. [2] [3] In 2012 she joined the cast of the Comedia Nacional  [ es ], 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  [ es ] by César Charlone, The Delay by Rodrigo Plá, and El muerto y ser feliz by Javier Rebollo  [ es ].

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  [ es ], based on the theatrical work she had previously starred in. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Entrevista a la actriz Roxana Blanco" [Interview With the Actress Roxana Blanco] (in Spanish). Radio Carve. 6 April 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Roxana Blanco: 'Pienso seguir viviendo igual'" [Roxana Blanco 'I Plan to Continue Living the Same Way']. LaRed21 (in Spanish). 4 October 2005. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Anoche se dieron a conocer los ganadores del premio Florencio 2017" [Last Night the Winners of the 2017 Florencio Award Were Announced]. La Diaria (in Spanish). 18 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  4. 1 2 Echeverría, Ana María (30 September 2012). "La magnífica actriz uruguaya Roxana Blanco obtiene el gran premio del Festival de Biarritz en actuación femenina" [The Magnificent Uruguayan Actress Roxana Blanco Gets the Grand Prize of the Biarritz Festival for Female Performance]. LaRed21 (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  5. 1 2 Piedra Cueva, Nadia (13 May 2012). "Luego de cuatro años, la Comedia Nacional recibe a nuevos actores" [After Four Years, the Comedia Nacional Gets Some New Actors]. 180 (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  6. ↑ "Uruguaya premiada en La Habana" [Uruguayan Awarded in Havana]. El Observador (in Spanish). 11 April 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "Blanco actuará para Rebollo" [Blanco Will Act For Rebollo] (in Spanish). Montevideo: El Espectador. 10 March 2009. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
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