Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (born 5 November 1968 in Rome, Italy) is a Spanish-Italian film actress. Best known for playing dramatic roles in Spain, Sánchez-Gijón is known in the United States for her portrayal of Victoria Aragon, a pregnant and abandoned Mexican-American winegrower's daughter who is helped by travelling salesman Paul Sutton (Keanu Reeves) in A Walk in the Clouds (1995). She has since built a reputation as an international star in films such as M...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Low Land
2025
as Carmen Membrado
Carmen, a well-known writer on her fifties, has returned a year ago to a farmhouse in the small town where she was born, in Bajo Aragón (Teruel, Spain...

The First Look
2024
as Self - Narrator (voice)
In Spain, a poor country ruined by the recent Civil War (1936-39), and in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a film school was created in Madrid in 1...

Something Is About to Happen
2023
as Roberta
After losing her job as a computer programmer, Lucía decides to become a cab driver.

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
2023
as Self - Actress
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical res...

Mi otro Jon
2023

Survivor's Day
2023
as Elena Paz
Malvivir tells in first person the secret life of the rogue Elena de Paz, a free, rebellious, thieving, ingenious, deceitful and fugitive woman who de...

Under Her Control
2022
as Beatriz
When a fashion employee thinks she will have to end her promising career after getting pregnant, her boss offers to adopt the child.

Fish Bones
2021
as Carmen

Parallel Mothers
2021
as Teresa
Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant...

Anatomy of a Dandy
2020
as Self - Narrator (voice)
An account of the life and work of genius Spanish writer Francisco Umbral (1932-2007), author of almost 200 books and more than 1000 articles; as well...

Alex's Strip
2020
as Vera
After a long time, Alexandra is reunited with her father Álex, a Spanish-Maghrebi businessman, and accompanies him on a business trip to Jaisalmer, in...

Velvet Colección: Grand Finale
2020
as Blanca Soto Fernández
Christmas 1969: the upcoming sale of Velvet brings the former and current staff together in Madrid for good memories, a second chance and a new beginn...

Volcánica
2018
Carlota has an open war with the caretaker of her community, Candela, whom she considers a person at risk. Carlota did not always know that HIV does n...

Querido Fotogramas
2018
as Self
The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mosaic ...

Thi Mai
2018
as Elvira
After losing her daughter in an accident, Carmen loses all incentive to keep going, until she receives an unexpected letter from the adoption agency: ...

Teresa
2015
as Doña Jimena
A new vision of the figure of Saint Teresa through the eyes of a young woman of our day who reads one of the main works written by the saint, The Book...

Disco Inferno
2015
An infernal civil servant is on a mission to rescue her boss. But the Devil is not ready to get back to her daily routine.

The Misfits Club
2014
as Madre de Valeria
Valeria has just moved to Madrid after her parent's separation. What at first seems a bad start for her new life becomes the beginning of an amazing l...

Maktub
2011
as Beatriz
The title refers to those strange coincidences that happen to us sometimes and that seem inevitable, like a product of destiny. Inspired by the experi...

Drifters
2011
as Vima
A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee.

La muerte de Otilia Ruiz
2011
as Blanca Lupino
Otilia Ruiz is the last link in a chain of women, marked by tragedy. Otilia looks desperately for an exit, but she doesn't know that, after entering t...

The Widow from Valencia
2010
as Leonarda
Tv movie adaptation of "The Widow from Valencia",a play written by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega. It was written circa 1600 as a result of Lope'...

The Frost
2009
as Rita
A couple's marriage falls apart after the death of their son. Based on Henrik Ibsen's "Little Eyolf"

Tell Me About Love
2008
as Nicole
Sasha is a 25-year-old orphan who asks Nicole, a married Frenchwoman in her forties, for advice to seduce Benedetta, his long-unrequited love. The two...

Express Oviedo
2007
as Mariola Mayo
All hell breaks loose when an eccentric theatrical ensemble arrives in Oviedo, Spain to stage a production of the Leopoldo Alas play -La Regenta.

The Nautical Chart
2007
as Tánger Soto
Coy, a sailor without ship, banished from the sea by a navigation accident occurred during his guard, knows in an auction of naval objects in Barcelon...

The Backwoods
2006
as Isabel
An English couple's holiday in Spain is interrupted when they discover a girl imprisoned in a cabin.
El genio tranquilo
2006
A watchmaker from Soweto finds a shoebox out of which he makes an improvised camera, aligns two lenses, and by looking through them, discovers images ...

Wounded Animals
2006
as Claudia
Silvio is a well-to-do business executive who is seemingly happily married to Marcia. However, Silvio is convinced Marcia is cheating on him, and freq...

With Good Reason
2004
A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. f...

The Machinist
2004
as Marie
Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to ...

The Whore and the Whale
2004
as Vera
A Spanish writer finds an old coffer with photographs of an Argentine man who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War, and of a woman. Her quest for ...

Carta mortal
2003

A Man, a Real One
2003
as Dolores
A shy computer expert falls in love with a beautiful colleague while trying to become a film director. Five years later, they have two children, she h...

I'm Not Scared
2003
as Anna
In a tiny community enclosed by wheat fields, the adults shelter indoors, while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted ...

Hombres felices
2001
as Ana

Mi dulce
2001
as Ángela
Laura is a fifteen-year-old teenager who receives a letter from her mother, of which she had no news a decade ago. Laura decides to try to go to Holla...

Without a Trace
2001
as Ana
A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.

Volaverunt
1999
as Duquesa de Alba
The story revolves around Goya's womanising and the mysterious death of the Duchess of Alba at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Centuries...

Jealousy
1999
as Carmen
A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions ...

Yerma
1999
as Yerma
Yerma is desperate to have children, so when a psychic advises her to look outside her marriage to conceive, what can she say but yes?

Ruleta
1999

Tangos Are for Two
1998
as Juanita
A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story un...

The Chambermaid on the Titanic
1997
as Marie
Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Ti...

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health
1997
as Model
Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them.

Love Walked In
1997
as Vicky Rivas
Two romantically involved down-and-out lounge singers get involved in a caper.

La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado
1996
as Maria de Loffredo
At the end of the seventeenth century, in Naples, still dominated by the Spaniards, a young pupil, Balthasar,is castrated to preserve the purity and b...

Mouth to Mouth
1995
as Amanda
For financial reasons an unemployed aspiring actor works for a phone-sex enterprise. One day he receives a call from the mysterious wife of one of his...

The Frontier Law
1995
as Bárbara Miller Molina
Barbara, a journalist in the beginning of the 20th century, searches in the border between Portugal and Galicia a bandit called El Argentino. In her t...

A Walk in the Clouds
1995
as Victoria Aragón
World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she c...

La Regenta
1995
The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's ...

La mujer impuntual
1994
The unpunctual woman.

Blind Man's Bluff
1994
as Bianca
A young heiress, Bianca, blind following an accident, stays in a beautiful hotel in the Caribbean. The business is managed by Anna and her beautiful n...

The Perfect Husband
1993
as Klara
A drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time seducing other men's wives and dueling. He begins an affair with his friend...

Havanera 1820
1993
as Amelia Roig
The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods that arrive to Cuba are not always the products that ...

The Bird of Happiness
1993
as Nani
While some people need to be surrounded by friends to be happy, Carmen (Mercedes Sampietro) is perfectly content by herself, pursuing her vocation as ...

The Greek Labyrinth
1993
as Bernadette
Two Frenchmen, Bernadette and Lebrum, arrive in Barcelona and hire detective Bardon to find Alekos, the former Greek lover of the woman.
Deseo Oculto
1992
Hidden Desire
1992
as Julia
Short film shot in 1992 starring Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Toni Castro.

El crimen de Perpignan
1991
as Yvette Romero
Perpignan, 1971. A toy factory supervisor becomes obsessed with a newly hired employee. To be with her, he plans the perfect crime: Training his lover...

The Monk
1990
as Sister Ines
In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace. B...

The Sea and the Weather
1989
as Mer
Jesus returns to Spain after a long exile in Argentina. The family he meets is very different from the one he left: they live under the sadness of bei...

Going Down in Morocco
1989
as Elena
A girl who lives with her dealer cousin and her policeman boyfriend who is a policeman regularly transports drugs from Morocco for her cousin. As all ...
No hagas planes con Marga
1988
as Charo
One night, as in an apparition, Andres meets Marga, his first and only love. But before it can reach her it evaporates again. This appearance makes An...

Rowing with the Wind
1988
as Teresa Guiccioli
In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each to write a h...

Jarrapellejos
1988
as Isabel
Pedro Jarrapellejos is a ladies man who cannot turn the heads of Isabel or her beautiful daughter. When both peasant women are found raped and murdere...

Viento de cólera
1988
Two soldiers accompanied by two women enter the Baztán valley on horseback. They are deserters from the army of the Indies who are fleeing to Italy. T...

Redondela
1987
as Luisa Peña
4,000 tons of oil have been stolen from a Galician deposit. The alleged thieves are defended by the lawyer Ramos, but the witnesses die and suspicions...

Romanza final (Gayarre)
1986
as Alicia
Biography of Julian Gayarre (1844-1890), one of the best tenors of all times. At 19, a professor at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid heard him sing...
Bitter Christmas
N/A
Elsa, an advertising director, loses her mother during a long weekend in December. She works nonstop, neglecting her grief. After a panic attack, she ...