Catalina Sandino Moreno
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Filmography
Notes
"After I first saw Catalina, I said, 'We're going to make her a star.'" Marston says. "We didn't make her a star, of course. She made herself a star. Since doing the film, Catalina, in a way, has discovered herself."---Joshua Marston, Moreno's director for "Maria Full of Grace" quoted to Premiere, February 2005.
Biography
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
Life Events
2004
Made her New York stage debut in an Off-Off-Broadway staging of Shakespeare's "King John"
2004
Feature acting debut, playing a young girl who consents to transport heroin into the US, in director Joshua Marston's "Maria Full of Grace"; received SAG and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress
2006
Portrayed a Mexican immigrant working in a slaughterhouse in Richard Linklater's "Fast Food Nation"
2007
Co-starred in Ethan Hawke's adaptation of his own novel, "The Hottest State"
2007
Played a supporting role in the Mike Newell adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera"
2008
Portrayed Ernesto Guevara's daughter in Steven Soderbergh's biopic, "Che"
2009
Co-starred with Matthew Broderick in The New Group's Off-Broadway premiere of Kenneth Lonergan's "The Starry Messenger"
2010
Played the villainous vampire Maria in "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse"
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Bibliography
Notes
"After I first saw Catalina, I said, 'We're going to make her a star.'" Marston says. "We didn't make her a star, of course. She made herself a star. Since doing the film, Catalina, in a way, has discovered herself."---Joshua Marston, Moreno's director for "Maria Full of Grace" quoted to Premiere, February 2005.