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Cayetana Guillén Cuervo | |
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| Born | Cayetana Guillén Cuervo (1969-06-13)13 June 1969 (age 56) Madrid, Spain |
| Education | Complutense University of Madrid |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1986-present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 |
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| Relatives | Fernando Guillén Cuervo (brother) |
Cayetana Guillén Cuervo (born 13 June 1969) is a Spanish screen and stage actress, journalist and television presenter.
Born on 13 June 1969 inMadrid,[1] both of her parents,Fernando Guillén andGemma Cuervo as well as her brother,Fernando are also actors.[2] She studiedCommunication Sciences at theComplutense University of Madrid and, since 1998, she has been the presenter of a weekly program onTelevisión Española,Versión española [es], where a Spanish-language movie is shown and discussed.
Cayetana began her acting career at the end of the 1980s, first in television and in theatre soon after. She debuted in 1986 with a small role in the television seriesSegunda enseñanza,[3] written byAna Diosdado and directed byPedro Masó.
In 1987 she played a small role in the theatre productionCoqueluche by Roberto Romero.[4] During the following years, Cayetana dedicated herself to theatre but with occasional appearances in television programmes as well as series from the 1990s onwards. Her first appearance on the big screen was in 1989 inLa luna negra, directed byImanol Uribe.
At the beginning of the 1990s she starred in four different theatre plays:Entre bobos anda el juego (1991) andThriller imposible (1992)[5] were both produced by the theatre company Strion; later on she would also appear inLa gran sultana (1993)[6] andFuenteovejuna (1993),[7] produced by the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico.
Her appearances in theatre lessened in the second half of the 1990s, and she devoted herself to the film industry. In this successful period Cayetana worked on the well-known filmsAll About My Mother,The Wound of Light andThe Grandfather where she worked with her father. Thanks to her role inThe Grandfather, which was nominated for theAcademy Award, she was nominated for the SpanishGoya Award forBest Actress.
She made her debut as a TV presenter in 1998 in the national television channel Televisión Española. She also works as a presenter in culture programmes on this channel, or more specifically, Seventh-Art programmes likeVersión Española, running from 1998, where she interviewed the members of the technical and artistic team of a film that had been displayed before.[8]
In the 2000s and 2010s, she works both as a TV presenter and actress (film industry and theatre), as well as a journalist in the Spanish newspaperEl Mundo.
From 2015 to 2020, she played the main role of Irene Larra in the successful television seriesEl Ministerio del Tiempo.[9]
In 2016 she participated in the worldwide known showMasterChef Celebrity, in the first edition.[10]Miguel Ángel Muñoz was the winner and Guillén Cuervo the runner-up.[11][12]
In 2018 she participated inCero en Historia, TV show hosted byJoaquín Reyes.[13]
The general assembly of theAcademy of Performing Arts of Spain [es] (AAEE) elected her as the new president of the organization in January 2022.[14]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1992 | Un paraguas para tres [ca] | Dependienta ('sales clerk') | ||
| Amo tu cama rica | Lola | |||
| La marrana (The Sow) | Putilla ('whore') | |||
1995 | Los hombres siempre mienten | Cristina | ||
| Historias del Kronen (Stories from the Kronen) | Hermana de Carlos ('Carlos' sister') | |||
1996 | Corsarios del chip | Vicky | ||
| Más que amor, frenesí (Not Love, Just Frenzy) | Mónica | |||
1997 | La herida luminosa (The Wound of Light) | Sor María | ||
| Atómica | Victoria | |||
| Hazlo por mí (Do It for Me) | Isabel Velasco | |||
1998 | El abuelo (The Grandfather) | Doña Lucrecia Richmond | ||
1999 | Sí, quiero... [es] | Candela | ||
2004 | La mirada violeta (The Violet Look) | Violeta | ||
| Amor idiota [es] | Sandra | |||
| Las huellas que devuelve el mar | Laura | [29] | ||
2012 | Una pistola en cada mano (A Gun in Each Hand) | Sara | ||
2020 | La maldición del guapo | Catalina |
| Year | Series | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Segunda enseñanza | Brigitte |
| 1994 | Historias de la puta mili | |
| 1994–1995 | Colegio mayor | |
| 1996 | Yo, una mujer | Paula |
| 1998–present | Versión española | Presenter |
| 2000 | Raquel busca su sitio | Quela |
| 2004 | 18th Goya Awards | Host(withDiego Luna) |
| 2005 | Lobos | Carmen Lobo |
| 2007 | D-calle | Presenter |
| 2008-2011 | Días de cine | Presenter |
| 2009-2010 | Amar en tiempos revueltos | Estela del Val |
| 2013–present | ¡Atención obras! | Presenter |
| 2015–present | El Ministerio del Tiempo | Irene Larra |
| 2016 | Masterchef Celebrity | Contestant Runner-up |
| 2018 | Cero en Historia |
| Year | Play | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Coqueluche | Girl |
| 1993 | Fuenteovejuna | Pascuala |
| 1993 | La gran sultana | Woman |
| 2013 | Fuegos | Marguerite Yourcenar |
| 2013-2014 | The Misunderstanding | Marta |
| 2015 | Hedda Gabler | Hedda Gabler |
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1997 | Mostra de València | Best Actress | Do It for Me | Won | |
1999 | 54thCEC Awards | Best Actress | The Grandfather | Won | |
| 13th Goya Awards | Best Actress | Nominated | |||
2017 | 4th Feroz Awards | Best Supporting Actress in a Series | El ministerio del tiempo | Nominated | |
2018 | 5th Feroz Awards | Best Supporting Actress in a Series | Nominated |
