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Ana Wagener

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Ana Wagener did not succeed overnight, but she has been working little by little until she has achieved the recognition she deserves, practically when she is over 40 years old.

Ana Álvarez Wagener was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1962. After realizing that she had a talent for acting, she decided that she should study theater, and ended up graduating from the Superior School of Dramatic Art in Seville.

He debuted with a small role in the forgotten drama Los invitados , starring Amparo Muñoz . She did a lot of theater, and spent the last years of the 90s playing roles in series like Compañeros , Señor Alcalde , Hermanas or Raquel busca su sitio De ella. She also appeared episodically in the thriller Plenilunio .

Moviegoers began to take notice of Ana Wagener when she played Laura, the social worker in the tough drama about child abuse El Bola , Achero Mañas ‘ feature debut .

Since then, he has won many integers, and obtained relatively important roles in films such as Torremolinos 73 , La suerte dormida , Horas de luz , Azul oscuro casi negro or 7 vírgenes . In a certain way, she highlights her work under the orders of Carlos Saura in El seventh day , a free recreation of the Puerto Hurraco massacre, where she was Ángela, a woman in love with a guy who repudiates her, leaving her with the prepared wedding trousseau. . Her brother, Jerónimo, takes revenge for her offense by murdering him.

For El patio de mi jail she was nominated for a Goya for Best New Actress, and for Biutiful , where she played a seer, she opted for the same award, in the supporting actress category. She has been an assistant in Los años desnudos and also in the series La señora , where she was Vicenta, the role for which she is best known by the general public. She reprized as Vicenta on April 14. The Republic . She plays Mercedes, a prison official in La voz dormida , by Benito Zambrano .

Despite her intense activity, Ana Wagener has had time to become a prolific dubber for characters like Danielle Rousseau, the Frenchwoman from Lost , or Lynette Scavo, in Desperate Housewives . She is jealous of her private life, so almost everything about her is unknown.

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