Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Spanish-Italian actress born in Rome, celebrated for powerful dramatic performances across European and Hollywood productions spanning four decades.
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón - Personal Information
- Name: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
- Date of Birth: November 5, 1968
- Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Gender: Female
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Thanks, Presenter
Biography
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (born 5 November 1968 in Rome, Italy) is a Spanish-Italian film actress.
Best known for playing dramatic roles in Spain, Sánchez-Gijón is known in the United States for her portrayal of Victoria Aragon, a pregnant and abandoned Mexican-American winegrower's daughter who is helped by travelling salesman Paul Sutton (Keanu Reeves) in A Walk in the Clouds (1995). She has since built a reputation as an international star in films such as Manuel Gomez Pereira's Boca a Boca (1996), Bigas Luna's The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997), Jaime Chavarri's Sus Ojos Se Cerraron (1998), Gabriele Salvatores' adaptation of the Niccolò Ammaniti novel I'm not scared (2003) and Brad Anderson's The Machinist (2004).
Selected Filmography
A showcase of Aitana Sánchez-Gijón's most recent and notable screen appearances.
- Bitter Christmas (2026)
- The Low Land (2025) as Carmen Membrado
- La Revuelta (TV - 2024) as Self - Guest
- Breathless (TV - 2024) as Pilar Amaro
- The First Look (2024) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Something Is About to Happen (2023) as Roberta
- The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite (2023) as Self - Actress
- My Other Jon (2023)
- Survivor's Day (2023) as Elena Paz
- Under Her Control (2022) as Beatriz
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