aida folch

Aida Benítez Folch was born in Reus, Tarragona, Spain, on November 24, 1986. As a child, she did theater as an extracurricular activity in the Llops Teatre company. She signed up for an agency in Barcelona to see if they would call her to do commercials, but it didn’t materialize. Instead, when she was only 14 years old, she learned that she was doing a casting for The Shanghai Haunting (2002), Fernando Trueba needed an actress for the leading role and she ended up being selected. It was an important start, beyond the fact that the author of the novel on which the film was based, Juan Marsé , was not happy with the vicissitudes of the adaptation, which Víctor Erice was initially going to undertake . And if that was not enough,Fernando León de Aranoa would count on her that same year for Los lunes al sol , he rubbed shoulders with one of the greats of acting, Javier Bardem himself .

After such a spectacular start, Folch continued studying, and for his interpretive training he would not hesitate to resort to places as prestigious as the Center for New Creators of Cristina Rota and the School of Interpretation of Juan Carlos Corazza. His new films would not be as striking as those that marked the beginning of his career, but he played a small role in 2006 in Salvador Puig Antich and had a bit more presence in Las vidas de Celia . The thriller 25 carats was quite forgettable, as was the telefilm about the mistreatment of women Do not fear, Sara , both from 2009. On the other hand, on television, apart from making the miniseries Innocents, she was the French daughter of Juan Echanove in Cuéntame como pasoas of the tenth season.

Mastery of French has allowed Fernando Trueba to return to her with The Artist and the Model , a film shot entirely in that language and in black and white, where the actress overcomes the challenge of posing nude for much of the film, since who is the model of a famous sculptor, played by Jean Rochefort .