Nailea Norvind

Nailea Norvind is a Mexican actress who has worked in film, television and theater. She began performing at six and made her stage debut in Mexico City in Ibsen's A Doll House, directed by Dimitrios Sarras, before taking her first film role at seven, opposite John Huston in The Bermuda Triangle (1978). At nine she moved to New York with her mother, studied at Carnegie Hall and appeared Off Broadway, then returned to Mexico at twelve, where Televisa signed her to star in telenovelas, among them Quinceanera, Amor Gitano and Rebelde. Her stage work has ranged from musicals such as Jesus Christ Superstar and Robin Hood to plays by Sabina Berman and Marguerite Yourcenar's Electra or The Fall of the Masks. She lent her Spanish voice to Princess Kida in Disney's Atlantis and was nominated for an Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress for La otra familia in 2011.