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Pilar López de Ayala
Spanish film actress (born 1978) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pilar López de Ayala Arroyo (born 18 September 1978) is a Spanish actress. She won a Goya Award for Best Actress for her performance playing Joanna of Castile in 2001 film Mad Love.
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Early life
Pilar López de Ayala Arroyo was born in Madrid on 18 September 1978.[1] Her parents are Rodrigo López de Ayala Sánchez-Arjona and Pilar Arroyo Gallego. On her father side she descends from the rural nobility of Extremadura and is twice descendant of Christopher Columbus through Diego Colón.[2] She studied at the public school Francisco de Quevedo in Majadahonda.[3]
Career beginnings
For her film debut as an actress, she appeared in a minor role in the children's film El niño invisible (1995), a promotional vehicle for the musical ensemble Bom Bom Chip.[3] From 1997 to 1999, she portrayed Carlota in 418 episodes of teen daily television series Al salir de clase.[4][5] Her film career continued with a performance in Gracia Querejeta's By My Side Again (1999).[6] In Fill Me with Life (2000), she delivered her first leading performance in a film,[7] portraying twentysomething María alongside Unax Ugalde in a tragic story about the descent into drugs and prostitution in Madrid.[8] Also by the turn of the century, she appeared in the comedy films Living It Up and Kisses for Everyone.[9] For her performance in the latter film portraying Rocío, an "upper-class mommy's girl and husband-hunter", she earned a nomination for the Goya Award for Best New Actress.[10][11]
Peak and first hiatus
She obtained critical acclaim for playing Joanna of Castile in Vicente Aranda's period drama Mad Love.[12] The film, an international co-production with Italy and Portugal, premiered in September 2001 at the 49th San Sebastián International Film Festival, with López Ayala being awarded the Silver Shell for Best Actress.[13][14] It also was a box office success in Spain.[14][15] López de Ayala went on to win the Goya Award for Best Actress and an Actors Union Award for Best Leading Performance in Film.[16][17]
Despite the success she had massed with Mad Love, López de Ayala did not meaningfully work in the Spanish film industry from 2001 to 2005.[18] She did however play a role in the English-language in The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004), a co-production with France and the United Kingdom.[19]
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