Cayetana Guillén Cuervo (born 13 June 1969) is a Spanish actress, journalist and TV presenter.

Early life and background

Born on 13 June 1969 in

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, both of her parents, Fernando Guillén and

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as well as her brother,

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are also actors. She studied

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at the

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and, since 1998, she has been the presenter of a weekly program on

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, '' Versión Española'', where a Spanish-language movie is shown and discussed.

Professional career

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 series ''

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'', written by

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and directed by Pedro Masó. In 1987 she played a small role in the theatre production ''Coqueluche'' by Roberto Romero. 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 in ''La luna negra'', directed by

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. At the beginning of the 1990s she starred in four different theatre plays: ''Entre bobos anda el juego'' (1991) and ''Thriller imposible'' (1992) were both produced by the theatre company Strion; later on she would also appear in ''La gran sultana'' (1993) and ''Fuenteovejuna'' (1993), 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 films ''All About My Mother'', ''The Wound of Light'' and ''The Grandfather'' where she worked with her father. Thanks to her role in ''The Grandfather'', which was nominated for the

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, she was nominated for the Spanish

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for Best 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 like ''Versión Española'', running from 1998, where she interviewed the members of the technical and artistic team of a film that had been displayed before. 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 newspaper El Mundo. Since 2015, she has played the main role of Irene Larra in the successful television series '' El Ministerio del Tiempo''. In 2016 she participated in the worldwide known show '' MasterChef Celebrity'', in the first edition.

Miguel Ángel Muñoz Miguel Ángel Muñoz Blanco (born 4 July 1983) is a Spanish actor and singer. Career Muñoz began his career as an actor at the age of eleven in the film ''El Palomo cojo'' (1995), followed by many television appearances. From 1997 to 1998, he ...

was the winner and Guillén Cuervo the runner-up. In 2018 she participated in '' Cero en Historia'', TV show hosted by Joaquín Reyes. The general assembly of the (AAEE) elected her as the new president of the organization in January 2022.

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage

Awards

*Premio del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos for '' El abuelo''. *Premio en la Mostra de Cine de Valencia a la mejor interpretación femenina for '' Hazlo por mi''.

References

External links

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Articles about Cayetana Guillén Cuervo at El País (in Spanish)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Guillen Cuervo, Cayetana 1969 births Living people Spanish television presenters Spanish film actresses Spanish television actresses Actresses from Madrid Spanish women television presenters 20th-century Spanish actresses 21st-century Spanish actresses Complutense University of Madrid alumni