Ariadna Gil

Ariadna Gil is a Spanish actress who started out in local theater and television. Born in January 1969, she grew up training in singing, dancing and violin. An avant-garde Catalonian magazine featured her on its cover when she was 17, which opened the door to work with local stage companies and Catalonian TV channels, including teaching Catalan on Canal 33. Bigas Luna spotted her there, and she made her film debut in Lola (1986). She gained wider notice in the comedy Amo tu cama rica (1992), opposite Javier Bardem, and followed that with Fernando Trueba's romantic comedy Belle Epoque (1992), which also starred Penélope Cruz. From the mid-1990s she took on more difficult parts, notably in the 1996 film Malena es un nombre de tango and in Black Tears (1998). She also appeared in Catalan theater productions such as Chekhov's The Seagull.