Roxana Blanco
Roxana Blanco is a Uruguayan actress. She is a graduate of the Margarita Xirgu Multidisciplinary School of Dramatic Art.
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. Since then she has developed a prolific theater career, which has earned her the three times. 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 ' by César Charlone, The Delay by Rodrigo Plá, and El muerto y ser feliz by.
For her leading role in Alma Mater by Álvaro Buela, she won the best actress award at the Biarritz Film Festival in 2005. She received this again in 2012 for her work in The Delay.
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 ', based on the theatrical work she had previously starred in.
Theater
Dream of Autumn by Jon FosseLas novias de Travolta by Andrés Tulipano' by José Sanchis SinisterraProof by David AuburnLa Sangre by Sergi BelbelThree Tall Women by Edward AlbeeAgatha by Marguerite DurasCentral Park West by Woody AllenMacbeth by William ShakespeareFrida by Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond RostandLast of the Red Hot Lovers by Neil SimonRoberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie KoltèsQuerido lobo by Roger VitracRichard III by William Shakespeare- '
With the Comedia Nacional
Oresteia by AeschylusTerrorism by the Presnyakov brothersMolly Sweeney by Brian FrielLa mitad de Dios by Gabriel CalderónEl tiempo todo entero by Romina PaulaThe Visit by Friedrich DürrenmattFilm
El muerto y ser feliz by El sexo de las madres by Alejandra MarinoThe Delay by Rodrigo Plá' by César CharloneNochebuena by Camila Loboguerrero- '
Awards
International
- Biarritz Film Festival: Grand Prize for Female Performance and Best Actress
- Milan Film Festival: Special Jury Prize
- Havana Film Festival: Best Actress Award
- : Best Actress Award
- Syracuse International Festival: Special Mention
- Costa Rica Festival: Best Actress
- Catalonia Festival: Best Actress
- Toulouse Festival: Best Actress
National
- Florencio Award for performance, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Leading Actress
- Parcum Prize awarded by the Mercosur Cultural Parliament to one of the ten outstanding personalities of Uruguayan culture
- Award of the Film Critics Association of Uruguay for Best Film Actress
- Fripesci Award for Film Performance and Best Film Actress
- Iris Award
- Woman of the Year Award