Malena alterio

Malena Grisel Alterio Bacaicoa (Buenos Aires, January 21, 1974), better known as Malena Alterio, is an actress well known in Spain by the general public through as a result of her participation as Belén López Vázquez in the successful television series Aquí no hay quien viva y La que se avecina. She is a Spanish film actress who makes her career mainly in Spain and Latin America.

Biography

She is the daughter of Héctor Alterio Onorato and Ángela Bacaicoa Destéfano, and sister of Ernesto Alterio. She is of Italian descent, her grandparents were originally from Carpinone, Molise. When she was barely a few months old, her family emigrated to Madrid after the death threats his father received in his native Argentina.

Malena studied acting for four years at Cristina Rota's school, which she managed to combine with her COU studies. She has also trained in classical and contemporary dance and plays the flute and sings.

In 2003, she married fellow actor and theater producer Luis Bermejo. They divorced in 2016.

Professional career

She had her first opportunity in the cinema with a comedy titled El palo (2000), where she played a marginal thief who called herself tin-chested. The following year she was a finalist for the Goya Award in the category of Best New Actress for said work.

To this work would be added those carried out in Torremolinos 73 (2003) and Las voces de la noche (2004). In 2004, he awarded the Goya of Honor to his father, in the company of his brother. He began his career on television participating in series such as Sisters or El comisario.

Although the character that has marked her career has been that of Belén López Vázquez in Aquí no hay quien viva, which she played for three years. Thanks to the success of the series, Malena she won the award for best secondary actress from the Union of Actors in 2004, a nomination for the Fotogramas de Plata in 2005 and the Award for Best Actress according to the Spanish Television Academy in 2005. On July 6, 2006, the series came to an end due to the purchase of 15% of the production company by Telecinco. In April 2007, Telecinco premiered La que se avecina, in which Malena Alterio played Cristina during the first season of 13 episodes.

In 2008 he performed the play Tío Vanya, by Antón Chéjov, on the Madrid stages, and in August of the same year A word of yours was released in Spanish cinemas with her first leading role, along with another television actress Esperanza Pedreño, the Cañizares of the also successful Telecinco series Camera Café. In 2009 At the end del camino, in which Malena starred with Fernando Tejero.

In 2009 he began shooting a series called Supercharly with Luis Callejo, which was scheduled to premiere on Telecinco in early 2010, but the network decided to delay it until the summer of that year. Its filming was canceled when they had already filmed 5 of the 13 episodes of the first season and it was broadcast in the summer of 2010. That year he was also at the Valle-Inclán Theater with the play Mother Courage and her children which premiered on February 11, 2010 and was originally going to end on April 4 but was extended until April 11 due to the great demand for tickets to attend the play. That same year he premiered his film Born to suffer where she played a nun.

In 2010 he also recorded in Alicante the film Five Square Meters, starring alongside Fernando Tejero and Jorge Bosch, which was released in theaters after having won 5 Golden Biznagas at the XIV Malaga Film Festival. In March 2011, she won the Fotogramas de Plata 2010 award for Best Theater Actress, for her work Madre Coraje y sus hijos. Later she joined the cast of the television series for La Sexta BuenAgente, which aired between May 5 and December 2, 2011.

At the beginning of 2012, he shot a mini-series for TVE in Barcelona with only two episodes entitled Letter to Eva, about Eva Perón's trip to Spain during the Franco era and directed by Agustí Villaronga.

During the month of September 2012, Malena was immersed in the rehearsal of her play The children have fallen asleep, an adaptation of the play La gaviota by Anton Chekhov. Its premiere took place in the month of October in Nave no. In 2013 she made a cameo in the second season of Frágiles playing Sor Blanca.

In October 2013, Malena returned to the stage, this time to participate in the play Emilia along with Gloria Muñoz, Alfonso Lara, Daniel Grao and David Castillo. The tour of said play lasted until the end of 2014.

In 2015 he starred in the series Rabia broadcast by the Cuatro chain between September and November of that year. Also in 2015 he was part of the cast of the comedy film Perdiendo el Norte. In October 2015, it was announced that he would star in The man of your life along with José Mota, Paco Tous and Norma Ruiz. The series, with only one season, premiered in May 2016.

In April 2016, it was announced through various Internet portals that he signed the series Shame on channel #0. In this project, she played Nuria, who is married to Jesús (Javier Gutiérrez), a couple who live in continuous argument and on multiple occasions are embarrassed in front of their family and friends. For this work, Alterio was awarded in 2017 as Best Actress in a television at the Fotogramas de Plata Awards. In 2018 she received the distinctions for Best Leading Actress in a Series at the Feroz Awards and Best Leading Actress for Television at the Union of Actors and Actresses Awards.

In 2019, he premiered the Telecinco black comedy series Señoras del (h)AMPA, along with Toni Acosta, Nuria Herrero and Mamen García. Also that year, he premiered the films Under the mismo techo, in which he stars alongside Daniel Guzmán; and Perdiendo el este.

Filmography

Movies

TV series

Theater

• Musicians (1995)... Address: Daniel Lovecchio.
• Shipwrecks (1997)... Address: María Boto and Jesús Amate.
• Lorca al red vivo (1998)... Address: Cristina Rota.
• The boat (1998)... Address: Cristina Rota.
• The pier (1999)... Address: Malena Alterio.
• Encierro (1999)... Address: Andrés Lima.
• The listener (2000)... Address: Amparo Valle.
• Russ (2001)... Address: Fernando Soto.
• Seventh heaven (2005)... Address: José Pascual.
• Uncle Vania of Antón Chéjov (2007)... Address: Carles Alfaro.
• Mother Corage and her children by Bertolt Brecht (2011)... Address: Gerardo Vera.
• The children have fallen asleep (2012)... Address: Gerardo Vera.
• Emilia (2013-2014)... Address: Claudio Tolcachir.
• Atchuss (2015)... Address: Carles Alfaro.
• The parallel universes of David Lindsay-Abaire (2018)... Address: David Serrano.
• Those who speak of Pablo Rosal (2020)... Address: Pablo Rosal.

Awards

Goya Awards

Union of Actors

Silver frames

Feroz Awards

Made of Bronze

ATV Awards

Ourense International Independent Film Festival

Spanish Film Festival of Cáceres

Turia Awards

Mayte Theatre Awards

Pizquita Series Awards