Adriana Paz

Adriana Paz
Born Adriana Paz
1980
Mexico City, Mexico.
Alma mater National Autonomous University of Mexico
Occupation Actress, dancer
Years active 2008–present
Children 1

Adriana Paz, (born 1980), is a Mexican actress and dancer. She began her artistic career in Spain, shooting commercials and acting in a play. She was recognized for her role as Toña in the Mexican film Rudo y Cursi (2009) with a nomination for the Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress. She garnered critical praise starring as Miranda in Las Horas Muertas (2013), for which she was awarded Best Actress at the Morelia International Film Festival. She subsequently starred in the TV series Sucedio en Un Día (2010), Capadocia (2010), El Encanto del Aguila (2011), and Dios, Inc. (2016).

Paz is also featured in other films including: Todos los Besos (2007), Backyard: El Traspatio (2009), Not Forgotten (2009), Un Mexicano Más (2009), El Mar Muerto (2010), 4 Maras (2012), Morelos (2012), Elysium (2013), Spectre, and Las Aparicio (2015). For her lead performance in the drama La Tirisia (2014), she received the Ariel Award for Best Actress. The following year she starred in Hilda, playing the title role, for which she won her second Ariel Award, this time for Best Supporting Actress.

Background

Adriana Paz was born in Mexico City in 1980.[1] She wanted to study dramatic literature and theater, but was accepted at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.[1][2][3] Upon graduation, Paz relocated to Spain to join the Estudi Dansa Montserrat in Tarragona and the Estudis de Teatre in Barcelona.[1] During her stay in Spain she had to support herself working in a flea market, a kindergarten, and as a tourist guide.[2] Paz also shot two commercials, acted in a play, and toured as a dancer. She took dance classes, attended theater workshops, and learned to speak the Catalan language.[2]

Career

Film debut in Todos los Besos and Rudo y Cursi

Paz joined the cast of the play Callejón de Lis, written by Joseph Danan and directed by Jean-Frédéric Chevallier, which ran in 2003 at the La Capilla Theater.[4] Her television debut was in the series Historias de Leyenda, broadcast by Canal Once.[1] Her first film role was in Todos los Besos, an independent film directed by César Aliosha in 2008.[5][6] That same year, Paz shared her headshots with actor Manuel Teil, who then asked her to the casting for a film. Later she received an invitation to the casting sessions for Carlos Cuarón's first feature film.[7] At a callback meeting, Paz met Cuarón and Diego Luna, and the following day Teil told her that she had won the role of Toña, the wife of Beto "Rudo", the character played by Luna.[7][8] The film, Rudo y Cursi (2009), starring Luna and Gael García Bernal, is about two soccer players who are half-brothers and become rivals when a talent scout discovers them and asks them to try out for a professional team.[8] To prepare for the role, Cuarón asked the cast to travel to Cihuatlán, Jalisco, a week before shooting to blend in with the local people and learn their accent and gestures. "I met a lady who was my coach, she helped me, corrected me, to the point that the crew believed that they selected me from the town to be in the film," Paz recalled.[5][7] While reviewing the film, Pete Hammond of Backstage magazine, was critical of the film's female roles, explaining that "[Dolores] Heredia and Paz don't have a lot to do but are also fine in a generally top-notch cast".[9] Paz received her first Ariel Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Rudo y Cursi.[10] The following year, she was featured in the film Backyard: El Traspatio, directed by Carlos Carrera.[11]

El Mar Muerto, Un Mexicano Más and first leading role in Las Horas Muertas

Paz played a supporting role in the film El Mar Muerto directed by Ignacio Ortíz in 2009, starring by Aída López, Joaquín Cosio, Leticia Gutiérrez, and Mario Almada.[12] The film used the Historic center of Mexico City as its main location, and the plot was about a murder that happens during a blackout.[12] She was later included in the cast of Un Mexicano Más (2010), directed by René Cardona III, based on the book of the same title written by Juan Sánchez Andraka. About her role in the film, a prostitute named La Chiquis, Paz said to TV Notas: "she [La Chiquis] works with Don Leodegario (Ernesto Gómez Cruz) at his restaurant bar and seeks to find a husband who will take her out of the village, but until that happens she is having a lot of fun with him , the male teachers, and all the men who pass through the village".[13] In 2010, Paz starred with Kristyan Ferrer in the film Las Horas Muertas, directed by Aarón Fernández; this was the first lead role for the actress.[11] In the film, Sebastián (Ferrer) runs a motel and starts a relationship with a regular client named Miranda (Paz).[14] Jay Weissberg of Variety stated that it was a "truly breakthrough role" for Paz, since she "enlivens the screen with palpable charm".[15] Weissberg also said that "without the warmth and ironic self-awareness that Paz brings to Miranda, the pic might have been a lesser vehicle, or at least a less absorbing one".[15] Las Horas Muertas was screened during the 2013 Morelia International Film Festival, where Paz was named Best Actress.[14] She was unable to attend the festival as she was about to give birth to her son.[16] About the award, the actress stated to El Sol de Mexico: "I do not like to think about awards, it is better to make things for the pleasure of doing them and, if they arrive [accolades] are appreciated and enjoyed".[17] In 2011, Paz also had a small role in Elysium directed by Neill Blomkamp starring Matt Damon, and was also featured in the film Morelos by Antonio Serrano, about the last days of José María Morelos' career.[18]

La Tirisia

Paz played Cheba, the lead role in La Tirisia, a film written, produced, and directed by Jorge Pérez Solano (2014).[19] The plot, inspired by a popular term tirisia (which means "a perpetual sadness defined as 'the death of the spirit'"), is set in the Mixteca region of Mexico, and centers on two women (Paz and Gabriela Cartol) who were impregnated by Sylvestre (Gustavo Sánchez Parra).[19] When Cheba's estranged husband returns to town, he finds her sunk into a deep depression since she had to give away her newborn (Sylvestre's child).[19] About the film, Paz said to Diario de Xalapa: "It is a very well-written story that required characters with depth; when I read it, it brought me great joy and made me say 'I want to watch this'. The first time I watched it I was shocked; it left a lump in my throat. It is beautiful".[20] The film was not exhibited in commercial movie theaters in Mexico because distribution was too expensive. Instead, La Tirisia was screened at film festivals such as the Chicago International Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, and the Toulouse Latinoamerican Film Festival, and later had a month-and-a-half stretch at the Mexican art house Cineteca Nacional.[21] Paz commented about it: "It is not very fair. We do not have the same resources that the big production companies have, and we don't have the same possibilities for making films. It is very difficult to produce a project and know that there is not a fair distribution and exhibition of these films".[20] Paz' performance was praised by Boyd van Hoeij of The Hollywood Reporter, who stated that she was "exceptional as a passionate woman who has needs and desires of her own but who’s boxed in by society’s rigid expectations for her gender".[22] Jaime López Blanco of Sputnik magazine referred to her acting as "fascinating on that introspection of a mother dead inside, suffering the absence of one of their children".[23] At the 57th Ariel Awards, Paz received the Best Actress award for her role in the film.[21] Of this outcome Paz said: "it definitely forces me to not lower the quality of my work... the other part is the joy it generates in me, the support that I am getting from the Academy, because it gives me the chance to be known as a good actress. This award speaks for myself and my duty is to continue along that line and go for characters that challenge me more".[20]

Spectre and Hilda

In 2015, Paz told El Financiero of her wish to do a musical project, since she "loves to sing" and wanted to return to the stage.[24] The actress was featured in the opening scene of the film Spectre, along with Mexican actors Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Stephanie Sigman, and British actor Daniel Craig in 2015.[25] In the same year, Paz joined the cast of Hilda, Andrés Clariond's first feature film, which is based on a play written by French author Marie NDiaye.[26] The film is about a housewife (Verónica Langer) who hires a maid (Paz) and, in the following days, develops an obsession with her, preventing her from leaving the house.[27] Clariond cast Paz since he did not want very well known faces and he liked her "personality and strength".[28] In his review of the film, Luis Fernando Galván of En Filme described Hilda's character "complex and beyond any cliché imposed by the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, where the poor is seen as decent, honest and kind, for example, Nosotros Los Pobres (1947) or the telenovelas, where the humble and pretty maid is rescued by prince charming from the clutches of her evil patron".[29] Paz said of this role: "If you are a brunette actress with long hair this is the kind of role that [the producers] usually give you, but fortunately this was very deep. It is difficult because Hilda does not speak, everything surges out of her energy and presence. She is not very funny or mouthy or a thief. Hilda is nothing like that. She is a woman who is making a household with her husband and is a very worthy woman who does not stoop, does not steal, and is not one of those stereotypes".[26] Hilda was distributed in Mexico by Cinépolis. At the Ariel Awards of 2016 received five nominations, with Paz winning for Best Supporting Actress.[3][26][30] Filmed in 2013, Las Aparicio (a film adaptation of the TV series of the same name) was released in 2016, with Paz in a small role.[31] It was met with mixed reviews but Paz was praised by Jesús Chavarría of Cine Premiere for her "brief and effective" performance.[31]

Dios, Inc., Original y Copia, and La Caridad

Paz joined the cast of the TV series Dios, Inc., created by Sergio Sánchez for HBO Latin America, starring: Rafael Sánchez Navarro, Luis Arrieta, Rocío Verdejo, Carlos Torres Torrija, Isabel Burr, Dagoberto Gama, Manuel Balbi, and Fernando Luján.[32] Paz is featured in the 2016 comedy film Original y Copia, directed by Guillermo Barba, co-starring Christopher Uckermann, Zuria Vega, and Juan Pablo Medina. This is Paz' first comedy. Talking about this role she said: "It is a place where I had not stopped and that was far from easy, it was very complicated, because it is far from my comfort zone. It was complicated but fun, I would make another comedy again".[33] Paz and Veronica Langer (her co-star in Hilda) re-united for the film La Caridad, directed by Marcelino Islas in 2016.[33]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2007 Todos los Besos Carmen [6]
2008 Rudo y Cursi Toña Nominated – Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress [34]
2009 Backyard: El Traspatio Hilda [34]
2009 Not Forgotten Pregnant maid [34]
2009 Un Mexicano Más Chiquis [13]
2010 El Mar Muerto Julia [35]
2012 4 Maras La Guillo [35]
2012 Morelos Simona [34]
2013 Las Horas Muertas Miranda Morelia International Film Festival Award for Best Actress [34]
2013 Elysium — [18]
2014 La Tirisia Cheba Ariel Award for Best Actress [34]
2014 Hilda Hilda Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress [34]
2015 Spectre Mexican Woman in Lift [34]
2015 Las Aparicio Adriana Film adaptation of the TV series Las Aparicio [31]
2016 La Caridad Eva [35]
2017 El Móvil — [35]

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2010 Sucedio en Un Día Teibolera Segment — "La Historia del Hombre que Nunca fue Consalero" [35]
2010 Capadocia Ramona Season 2
Episode — "Bienaventurados los Inocentes"		 [36]
2011 El Encanto del Aguila Natividad Epidode — "Los Martires de Puebla" [18]
2016 Dios, Inc. María Elena 4 episodes:
"Crucifixión"
"Las Catacumbas"
"El Santo Grial"
"La Grey"		 [35]
Theatre
Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2003 Callejón de Lis — La Capilla [37]
2005 Los Tres Sueños de Rosaura — — [37]
2010 Zoot Suit — Las Vizcainas [37]

References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Adriana Paz, en espera de su debut en Hollywood". El Informador (in Spanish). Unión Editorialista, S.A. de C.V. August 18, 2011. Archived from the original on November 13, 2016. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
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  5. 1 2 "Adriana Paz: las decisiones en la ficción" (in Spanish). El Ojo de la Creación. June 16, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Todos Los Besos". Sistema de Información Cultural (in Spanish). Secretaría de Cultura. October 28, 2009. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 "Me ruda que cursi". No Lo Cuentes (in Spanish). Las Noticias Mexico. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
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  9. ↑ Hammond, Pete (May 7, 2009). "Rudo y Cursi". Backstage. Backstage, LLC. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Lista de nominados a los Premios Ariel". Terra (in Spanish). Telefónica. February 27, 2009. Retrieved May 19, 2016.
  11. 1 2 "Adriana Paz asegura que está en el mejor momento de su carrera" (in Spanish). 20 Minutos. July 9, 2014. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
  12. 1 2 "Arranca el rodaje de 'El mar muerto'". El Informador (in Spanish). Unión Editorialista, S.A. de C.V. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  13. 1 2 "Se estrena la película "Un mexicano más"" (in Spanish). TV Notas. November 6, 2010. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
  14. 1 2 "Las Horas Muertas" (in Spanish). Morelia International Film Festival. 2013. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
  15. 1 2 Weissberg, Jay (October 15, 2013). "Film Review: The Empty Hours". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
  16. ↑ Vértiz de la Fuente, Columba (October 24, 2013). "Presenta Aarón Fernández "Las horas muertas", en el FICM". Proceso (in Spanish). Comunicación e Información, S.A. de C.V. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
  17. ↑ "¿Dónde está Adriana Paz?". El Sol de México (in Spanish). Organización Editorial Mexicana S.A. de C.V. November 3, 2013. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
  18. 1 2 3 "Se prepara Adriana Paz para su primer papel protagónico en cine". El Informador (in Spanish). Unión Editorialista, S.A. de C.V. December 27, 2011. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  19. 1 2 3 Scheib, Ronnie (September 15, 2014). "Film Review: La Tirisia". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
  20. 1 2 3 "Ya se produce cine mexicano; falta ver cómo llegar al público: Adriana Paz". La Prensa (in Spanish). Organización Editorial Mexicana S.A. de C.V. June 22, 2015. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
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  30. ↑ Magaña, Arturo (April 13, 2016). "Nominados al Ariel 2016". Cine Premiere (in Spanish). Retrieved April 13, 2016.
  31. 1 2 3 Chavarría, Jesús (2016). "Las Aparicio". Cine Premiere (in Spanish). Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  32. ↑ "HBO estrena nueva serie original Dios Inc". Prensario Internacional (in Spanish). Editorial Prensario S.R.L. January 15, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
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