Aitana Sánchez-Gijón is a multifaceted Spanish-Italian film actress born on November 5, 1968, in Rome, Italy. As a talented performer, she has garnered widespread recognition for her captivating portrayals of complex characters in Spanish dramas.
Her breakthrough role in the United States came in the 1995 film A Walk in the Clouds, where she played Victoria Aragon, a pregnant and abandoned Mexican-American winegrower's daughter who finds help in the form of a travelling salesman, Paul Sutton, played by Keanu Reeves. This performance marked the beginning of her international career, with subsequent roles in films such as Manuel Gomez Pereira's Boca a Boca (1996),Bigas Luna's The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997),Jaime Chavarri's Sus Ojos Se Cerraron (1998),Gabriele Salvatores' adaptation of Niccolò Ammaniti's novel I'm not scared (2003),and Brad Anderson's The Machinist (2004).
