Norma Aleandro
Highest Rated: 100% Benavidez's Case (La valija de Benavidez) (2016)
Lowest Rated: 39% The City of Your Final Destination (2007)
Birthday: May 2, 1936
Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Representing the third generation of her family to work in the theater, versatile talent Norma Aleandro began acting with her parents as a child and matured into one of Argentina's most distinguished thespians. A playwright and director as well as a performer, she fled her homeland for fear of persecution at the hands of its military junta, spending many years in exile first in Uruguay and later Spain before her 1983 return. The dark-haired actress with a slightly pinched face and expressively limpid brown eyes gained international recognition for her superb portrait of a typical middle-class Argentine woman who discovers her life is a lie in the politically-themed "La Historia Oficial/The Official Story" (1985). Aleandro crafted a heartbreaking portrayal of a average wife who comes to suspect that her beloved adopted daughter is the child of a political prisoner. In a role specifically tailored for her, she triumphed both personally and artistically, earning Best Actress honors at Cannes and from the New York Film Critics Circle. Set in 1983 as the junta was disintegrating, "The Official Story" was the first film to examine the fallen regime's responsibility for disappearances, tortures, murders and stolen babies, making a political statement in the midst of a crackling good story that deservedly snared the Academy Award as Best Foreign Film, although the expected nomination for Aleandro's gut-wrenching work failed to materialize.
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Norma Aleandro
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El Paraíso | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2022 |
100% | No Score Yet | Benavidez's Case (La valija de Benavidez) | Unknown (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Angelita, la Doctora | Unknown (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El espejo de los otros | Julia (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cuidado con lo que sueñas | Unknown (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All In | Susan (Character) | - | 2012 |
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La suerte en tus manos | Susan (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Familia para armar | Elisa (Character) | - | 2011 |
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Anita | Dora (Character) | - | 2009 |
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Andres Doesn't Want to Take a Siesta | Olga (Character) | - | 2009 |
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A Matter of Principles | Sarita (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paco | Nina (Character) | - | 2009 |
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Music on Hold | Unknown (Character) | - | 2009 |
39% |
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The City of Your Final Destination | Mrs. Van Euwen (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Patoruzito: The Great Adventure | Bruja Jiuma (Voice) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Young Blood | Josefina (Character) | - | 2006 |
100% |
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Live-In Maid | Beba (Character) | - | 2004 |
73% |
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Only Human | Gloria (Character) | $283.0K | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ay Juancito | Doña Juana (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cleopatra | Cleopatra "Cleo" (Character) | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Desire | Clarita (Character) | - | 2002 |
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Every Stewardess Goes to Heaven | Madre de Teresa (Character) | - | 2002 |
86% |
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The Son of the Bride | Norma Belvedere (Character) | $624.2K | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Escape | La Varela (Character) | - | 2001 |
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A Night With Sabrina Love | Julia (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Foolish Heart | Mother (Character) | - | 1998 |
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The Southern Lighthouse | Dolores (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Autumn Sun | Clara Goldstein (Character) | $157.6K | 1996 |
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One Man's War | Nidia (Character) | - | 1991 |
43% |
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Vital Signs | Henrietta Walker (Character) | $779.1K | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Passport to Terror | Isha (Character) | - | 1989 |
56% |
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Cousins | Edie (Character) | $21.7M | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cien veces no debo | Carmen (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dark Holiday | Isha (Character) | - | 1989 |
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Gaby: A True Story | Florencia (Character) | $24.7K | 1987 |
100% |
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The Official Story | Alicia (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Las verdes praderas | Fidela (Character) | - | 1979 |