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Catalina Sandino Moreno

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Catalina Sandino Moreno: Biography

Birth Place: Bogotá, Colombia
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 04/19/1981, Aries
Profession: Actor

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Catalina Sandino Moreno Fast Facts:

Attended a private British school in Bogotá, and took acting lessons to help overcome her shyness.
Studied advertising in college.
Received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her first film, Maria Full of Grace, in which she played a Colombian drug mule.
Was the first Colombian and third Hispanic actress to receive a nomination for a Best Actress Oscar.
When she moved to New York, she was detained by customs on suspicion of being a drug mule.
New York stage debut was in the Frog & Peach Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's King John.
Met her husband, a lighting technician, on the set of Maria Full of Grace.

Catalina Sandino Moreno Relationships:
David Elwell - Husband
Catalina Sandino Moreno Awards:
2004 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nominee
2004 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role - Nominee
College:
Attended Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia; Lee Strasberg Institute, New York, NY (2004)

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