Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Highest Rated: 100% Something Is About to Happen (2023)
Lowest Rated: 20% Thi Mai (2017)
Birthday: Nov 5, 1968
Birthplace: Rome, Italy
Best known to American audiences for her role opposite Keanu Reeves in the 1995 romantic drama "A Walk in the Clouds," Aitana Sanchez-Gijon is a well-known Spanish-Italian actress who has appeared in over 50 films and TV programs. She first appeared on-screen in the 1986 Spanish melodrama "Romanza final," and soon landed roles in such films as "Jarrapellejos" and "The Sea and the Weather." Sanchez-Gijon, who is the goddaughter of actor Rafael Alberti, worked steadily throughout the 1990s and landed a breakout role opposite Keanu Reeves as a pregnant and abandoned woman in "A Walk in the Clouds." She later appeared as a mysteriously beautiful woman in the romantic drama "The Chambermaid on the Titanic," and as a woman on the run from her drug dealer boyfriend in "Leaving no Trace." In 2003 she landed a major role in the adaptation of the Italian novel "I'm Not Scared," as a woman caught in horrifying web of kidnapping and deceit. She has since appeared as a sympathetic waitress in the psychological drama "The Machinist" and as a manipulative femme fatale in the nautical drama
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100% | No Score Yet | Something Is About to Happen | Unknown (Character) | - | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mi Otro Jon | Unknown (Character) | - | 2023 |
No Score Yet | 16% | Under Her Control | Beatriz (Character) | - | 2022 |
96% | 78% | Parallel Mothers | Teresa (Character) | $2.3M | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alex's Strip | Vera (Character) | - | 2019 |
20% | 65% | Thi Mai | Unknown (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Disco Inferno | The Devil (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Teresa | Doña Jimena (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 39% | The Misfits Club | Mara (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 32% | Drifters | Vima (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet | 17% | The Frost | Rita (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tell Me About Love | Nicole (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 36% | Talk to Me About Love | Nicole (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Nautical Chart | Tánger Soto (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Carta Esférica | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 17% | Oviedo Express | Mariola Mayo (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wounded Animals | Claudia (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 53% | The Whore and the Whale | Vera (Character) | - | 2004 |
77% | 83% | The Machinist | Marie (Character) | $1.1M | 2004 |
90% | 87% | I'm Not Scared | Anna (Character) | $1.6M | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Happy Men |
Ana (Character), Producer |
- | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mi Dulce | Ángela (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 55% | Without a Trace | Ana (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 44% | Jealousy | Carmen (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 51% | Volaverunt | Duquesa de Alba (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 77% | Tangos Are for Two | Juanita (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | 79% | Yerma | Yerma (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | 29% | The Bitter End | Vicky Rivas (Character) | $17.6K | 1997 |
81% | 55% | The Chambermaid on the Titanic | Marie (Character) | $330.6K | 1997 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health | Modelo (Character) | - | 1997 |
33% | 49% | Mouth to Mouth | Amanda (Character) | $59.2K | 1995 |
46% | 75% | A Walk in the Clouds | Victoria Aragón (Character) | $48.0M | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Havanera | Unknown (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bird of Happiness | Nani (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Greek Labyrinth | Bernadette (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | 73% | The Perfect Husband | Klara (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Monk | Sister Ines (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El mar y el tiempo | Mer (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Rowing With the Wind | Teresa Guiccioli (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Going Down in Morocco | Elena (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Viento de cólera | Unknown (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jarrapellejos | Isabel (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Redondela | Luisa Peña (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La Regenta | Ana Ozores (Character) | - | 1975 |
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No Score Yet | 68% | Velvet | Doña Blanca (Character) | 2014-2016 |