• 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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