Paulina Gálvez (actress)


Paulina Gálvez is a Chilean-Spanish actress. She was born in Santiago to a Chilean mother and a Spanish father, both economists. She was raised in Madrid from the age of eight. Started her artistic career as a Flamenco dancer in several companies in Spain and in films getting the lead role in her first audition for the film Bazar Viena besides Alfredo Landa. After few years busy in films and television Paulina worked in theatre with famous experimental Catalan group Els Joglars, from Barcelona. Since then she has played more than 90 different characters from comedy to drama in theater, films and television with renowned directors and actors such as Carlos Saura, Javier Bardem, Federico Luppi, Jordi Mollà, Ricky Schroder among many others.
In 2000 she played Marta, the Gypsy servant of the American series Queen of Swords for Paramount TV and with Tessie Santiago were the only two actors to appear in all 22 episodes of this TV series filmed at Texas Hollywood, Almeria, Spain. She appears in the series Dueños del Paraiso for Telemundo starring Kate del Castillo and in the production for Atresmedia, . In 2018 she was casted as Catalina in The Purge TV series from Blumhouse for USA tv

Partial filmography

Arts and Entertainment Critics Awards, Chile
2004 Nominated
APES Award Best Actress
Sub terra
Biarritz International Festival of Latin American Cinema
2003 Won
Best Actress Sub terra
Goya Awards
1998 Nominated
Goya Best New Actress
Retrato de mujer con hombre al fondo
Lleida Latin-American Film Festival
2004 Won
Best Actress Sub terra