Patricia Castañeda
Patricia Castañeda | |
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| Born | Patricia Castaneda February 16, 1972 |
| Occupations | Actor, Writer, Director |
Patricia Castañeda (born February 16, 1972) is a Colombian Actor, Director and Writer. The recipient of numerous accolades, including an India Catalina Award for best leading Female Actor, Cartagena Film Festival (Festival de Cine de Cartagena) a Tv y Novelas Award.
Biography
Born in Cali, Colombia. she began her acting career in the early 1990s, appearing in Colombian kids show La Brújula Mágica After that she landed the lead character in the TV series Tiempos Dificiles and was nominee for best actress in the Cartagena Film Festival (Festival de Cine de Cartagena). She then moved to New York City and studied acting in HB Studio for three years at the same time that she took creative writing courses with Robert Auleta in School of Visual Arts.
Caracol TV called her back to join the cast of the year's best comedy Pecados Capitales. Then came the lead role in La Saga, La Tormenta and her first film: Otros directed by Oscar Campo. In 2006 was cast as Valeria, a small role in the movie Satanas directed by Andi Baiz, the reporter in the short film Ciudad Cronica which won at the Bogotá Film Festival, and Grand Lady in the film Love in the Time of Cholera directed by Mike Newell. In 2004 she became one of the first celebrities to take part in a reality show; Desafio 2004 together with El Pibe Valderrama. In 2009 she was cast in the comedy show Caméra Café and in 2010 joined the TV series Los Caballeros las Prefieren Brutas, the first original series made by Sony Entertainment Television playing the role of Hannah de la Aspriella. In 2011, Sony Entertainment Television started shooting the second season. She landed the lead role in the Norwegian film Handle with Care directed by Adril Andresen. In 2015 she had a supporting role in the film Moria directed by Claudio Cataño and was nominee for best supporting actress by the Academia Colombiana de Cine the Macondo Awards. Other series she has performed in include: La Ley del corazon, Nadie me Quita lo Bailao the film Pacifico directed by Argentinian director GG. In 2018 she landed the leading role in the series Debora, la mujer que desnudo a Colombia about the painter form Medellin who was banned by the church, silenced by the government and attacked by society for being a woman painting nudes.
Castañeda started writing for SoHo magazine in 2004, and has her own column: "El Closet". In 2005 she wrote her first book Manual para Salir de la Tusa (Guide to get over heart breaks), published by Editorial Norma. The newspaper El País published her short story "El Palo de Golf" which later made part of a series of ten short stories, La noche del Demonio (The Night of the Demon), published in 2007 by Villegas Editores. For a year and a half she wrote a column in la Revista Cromos magazine: Profundamente light. In 2010 Castañeda wrote the screenplay for Roa, a film directed by Andres Baiz. She wrote and directed 2 shorts stories: El Secreto, which was invited to be in the official selection on the Festival de Cine de Cali and Colombian Film Festival NYC.
In 2022, it was announced that Castañeda had written and will produce a feature film Estimados Señores, Dear Gentleman, on the life of the late Colombian suffragist with Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid, starring Julieth Restrepo.[1]
Publications
In December 2010, Castañeda published her first novel, Virginia Casta, with Villegas Editores. The novel was taken into film by actor/director Claudio Cataño. Manual para salir de la tusa (2005) La noche del demonio y otros cuentos 2008 Virginia Casta (2010)
Screenplay
Roa (2013) Feature Film El Secreto (2013) Short Film Canal St (2021) Short Film Daer Gentleman 2024
Filmography
Television
- Tiempos Dificiles (1996)
- Pecados Capitales (2002)
- La Saga (2004)
- La Tormenta (2006)
- Vuelo 1503 2007
- Camara Cafe 2008
- Los Caballeros las Prefieren Brutas
- La Ley del corazon 2015
- El laberinto de Alicia 2016
- Nadie me quita lo bailao 2016
- Debora, la mujer que desnudo a Colombia 2018
Films
- Satanas (2006)
- Love in the Time of Cholera(2006)
- Passing by 2008
- Yo soy Otro 2008
- La vida era en serio 2009
- Moria 2015
- Pacifico 2016
- Handle with care 2017
- Virginia Casta 2017
References
- ^ Wiseman, Andreas (2022-06-07). "'Loving Pablo' Actress Julieth Restrepo To Lead Story Of "Colombian Suffragette" Esmeralda Arboleda". Deadline. Retrieved 2022-06-07.