Blanca Portillo (Madrid, June 15, 1963) is a Spanish actress.

She started as an actress in several small theatre aficionado productions before graduating in drama in the RESAD.

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 movie début in the film Entre rojas, and she was nominated to the Goya Awards and Unión de Actores Awards for her role in El color de las nubes in 1997 and Luis San Naricso cast her for the Tele5 TV series 7 vidas, where she played the role of Carlota. She also participated in the Castillian dubbing of Finding Nemo. In spite of her success in TV and movies, she has never left theatre and she has taken part in several plays both as an actress and as a director.

In 2003, she joined the Spanish Protests against the Iraq War (No a la guerra) movement.

In 2004, she left 7 vidas to undertake the Argentine theatrical project La hija del aire (Air's Daughter) based in a book by Calderón de la Barca. She combined this play with the film Elsa y Fred (2005).

Back to Spain, she staged this play and some more in Madrid and she played a masculine role in the 2005 film Alatriste, based in a book by Arturo Pérez Reverte.

After that, Pedro Almodóvar called her to play the role of Agustina in his 2006 film Volver. She took part of Goya's Ghosts by Milos Forman and Gracia Querejeta's film Siete mesas (de billar francés).

Works

Theatre

Actress

• 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)
• Oleanna (1994)
• Las troyanas (1993)
• Marat-Dade (1992)
• Cuento de invierno (1992)
• Lope de Aguirre, traidor (1988)
• El mal de la juventud (1985)
• Bodas de sangre (1994)

Director

• Siglo XX... que estás en los cielos (2006)
• Desorientados (2004)
• Shakespeare a pedazos (1999)
• Hay amores que hablan (1997)

TV

• 7 vidas (1999-2004).

Films

Awards

Cannes Film Festival
2006: Best actress shared with Penélope Cruz, Chus Lampreave, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas and Yohana Cobo. Goya Awards
Candidatura al premio de Mejor Actriz Revelación (1997). Unión de Actores

• Mejor actriz de teatro (2004).
• Mejor actriz secundaria de teatro (2003)
• Candidata al Premio a la Mejor Actriz de Televisión (2002).
• Mejor intérprete de teatro de reparto (1997)

Fotogramas de Plata

• Candidata al premio de Mejor Actriz de Teatro (2003).

External links

• Web No Oficial