Antonia San Juan

Antonia San Juan (Born March 22 1961 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain) is a Spanish actress, director and screenwriter. At 19 she went to Madrid, where she started working as a professional theatre actress and also as a cabaret act in pubs and bars. She became known thanks to her role as Agrado in "Todo sobre mi madre" by Pedro Almodóvar. A famous Spanish magazine article Fact|date=February 2007 about her transexuality caused great controversy. She is well-known in Spain not only because of her film career but also for her humorous monologues on television and theatre Fact|date=February 2007.

Filmography

*La caja (2006)
*La china (2005)
*Un buen día (2005)
*Un dulce despertar (2005)
*El hambre (2005)
*La maldad de las cosas (2005)
*La nevera (2005)
*Mela y sus hermanas (2004)
*Te llevas la palma (2004)
*238 (2003)
*Colours (2003)
*Octavia (2002)
*La balsa de piedra (2002)
*Amnèsia (2002)
*Piedras (2002)
*Venganza (2002))
*V.O. (2001)
*El pan de cada día, El (2000)
*Asfalto (2000)
*Ataque verbal (1999)
*Manolito Gafotas (1999)
*Todo sobre mi madre (1999)
*Hongos (1999)
*La primera noche de mi vida (1998)
*El grito en el cielo (1998)
*Perdona bonita, pero Lucas me quería a mí (1997)
*La vida siempre es corta (1994)

References

cite news
last = Alfaro
first = Luis
coauthors =
title = Nearly all about Antonia
work = The Advocate (USA)
pages = 88-89
language =
publisher =
date = 1999-12-07
url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_1999_Dec_7/ai_57828727
accessdate = 2007-04-05hihygkñ-jgjjyut.yutr,lydr

External links

*imdb name|id=0760665|name=Antonia San Juan
*es icon [http://www.antoniasanjuan.com/ Official Page]