Person · Actor

Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

Born

November 5, 1968

From

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Also:
Actress

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Decades active

In short · Acting since 1986, 5 decades active, 57 credits.

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Biography

Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (born 5 November 1968 in Rome, Italy) is a Spanish-Italian film actress. She is best known for playing dramatic roles in Spain, and in the United States for her portrayal of Victoria Aragon, a pregnant and abandoned Mexican-American winegrower's daughter who is helped by traveling salesman Paul Sutton (Keanu Reeves) in *A Walk in the Clouds* (1995). She has since built a reputation as an international star in films such as Manuel Gomez Pereira's *Boca a Boca* (1996), Bigas Luna's *The Chambermaid on the Titanic* (1997), Jaime Chavarri's *Sus Ojos Se Cerraron* (1998), Gabriele Salvatores' adaptation of the Niccolò Ammaniti novel *I'm Not Scared* (2003), and Brad Anderson's *The Machinist* (2004).