Roxana Blanco (born 6 November 1967) is a Uruguayan actress of film, theater, and television. She is a graduate of the .
Biography
Roxana Blanco is the sister of playwright Sergio Blanco. She took acting and singing classes at the Multidisciplinary School of Dramatic Art, where she graduated in the early 1990s. Since then she has developed a prolific theater career, which has earned her the three times. In 2012 she joined the cast of the , of which she remains a member.
At the same time, she has developed an important film and television career that has given her international recognition and multiple awards. She has participated in films of great recognition in her country and abroad, such as by César Charlone, The Delay by Rodrigo Plá, and by .
For her leading role in Alma Mater by Álvaro Buela, she won the best actress award at the Biarritz Film Festival (France) in 2005. She received this again in 2012 for her work in The Delay.
Blanco has participated in more than twenty plays, representing texts by prominent figures of world theater. In 2009, she starred opposite Alejandra Wolff, Jenny Galván, and Andrea Davidovics in the television series , based on the theatrical work she had previously starred in.
Theater
Dream of Autumn by Jon Fosse
Las novias de Travolta by Andrés Tulipano
by José Sanchis Sinisterra
Proof by David Auburn
La Sangre by Sergi Belbel
Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
Agatha by Marguerite Duras
Central Park West by Woody Allen
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Frida by
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Last of the Red Hot Lovers by Neil Simon
Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltès
Querido lobo by Roger Vitrac
Richard III by William Shakespeare
by Nelson Rodrigues
Doña Rosita the Spinster by Federico García Lorca
The Trojan Women by Euripides
Cabaret by John Kander and Fred Ebb
Tango by Sławomir Mrożek
With the Comedia Nacional
Oresteia by Aeschylus
Terrorism by the Presnyakov brothers
Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel
La mitad de Dios by Gabriel Calderón
El tiempo todo entero by Romina Paula
The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Film
by
El sexo de las madres by Alejandra Marino
The Delay by Rodrigo Plá
by César Charlone
Nochebuena by
by Esteban Schroeder
Alma Mater by Álvaro Buela
9 by Martín Barrenechea & Nicolás Branca
Awards
International
Biarritz Film Festival: Grand Prize for Female Performance (Alma Mater) and Best Actress (The Delay) Milan Film Festival: Special Jury Prize (Alma Mater) Havana Film Festival: Best Actress Award (Alma Mater) : Best Actress Award (Matar a todos) Syracuse International Festival: Special Mention (Matar a todos) Costa Rica Festival: Best Actress (The Delay) Catalonia Festival: Best Actress (The Delay) Toulouse Festival: Best Actress (El muerto y ser feliz)
National
Florencio Award for performance (Menú de cuentos), Best Supporting Actress (Terrorism, Roberto Zucco), and Best Leading Actress (Agatha, La travesía) Parcum Prize awarded by the Mercosur Cultural Parliament to one of the ten outstanding personalities of Uruguayan culture Award of the Film Critics Association of Uruguay for Best Film Actress (The Delay) (Alma Mater) Fripesci Award for Film Performance and Best Film Actress (Alma Mater) Iris Award (Alma Mater and El lector por horas) Woman of the Year Award (Alma Mater, Matar a todos, The Delay)