Eleanor Watling

Elisabeth Leonor Ceballos Watling from Madrid was born on July 28, 1975. Her mother was British and her father was from Cádiz. Determined to become a dancer, she began studying classical dance at the age of eight. Unfortunately, a knee injury put an end to her aspirations. But since there is no evil that does not come from her for good, she decided to try her luck in the field of acting. She began acting in amateur theatrical groups, although she was already attracting attention due to her interpretive force. In 1993 she made her big screen debut with a role in Hanging Gardens , by Pablo Llorca .

As she was fluent in English, her mother’s language, Leonor Watling took the opportunity to study in London, at the Actor’s Center, although she has also received a course at Carlos Coraza’s school. He then made his fortune in the field of television series, first playing Cris, a character who lasted for many episodes of Hermanos de leche , where he still appeared in the credits as Leonor Ceballos, although he immediately went on to use his mother’s last name, which draws more attention. She also had a role in the series Dear Teacher . At the end of the 90s, she was the protagonist of a little gem, The First Night of My Life , Miguel Albaladejo ‘s debut, where she was a pregnant woman trying to get home on New Year’s Eve 1999. She also garnered good reviews with her work in Todas hieren and La hora de los valientes , for which she was nominated for a Goya for Best Actress.

After the year 2000, Leonor Watling established herself and became popular, after the television series Raquel seeks her site , where she was the protagonist. Although some of her films are not of great quality, such as Son de mar or My mother likes women , she is also signed by Pedro Almodóvar himself to play the main female character, a young woman in a coma, in Talk to her . She also got a lot out of it as Isabel Coixet ‘s secondary , as the neighbor of the dying Sarah Polley , in My Life Without Me . The director relied on her for The Secret Life of Words . For her part,Cesc Gay hired her to play one of the members of a peculiar group of friends in the film In the city .

In 2004, Leonor Watling recorded the first album by the musical group Marlango, which she formed with the musicians Alejandro Pelayo and Óscar Ybarra. The group has given numerous concerts and has won a Golden Globe, the first of which was given to the actress by Pedro Almodóvar. Her musical activity has not prevented her from continuing to perform in films such as Bad Seasons , Paris, je t’aime , Salvador Puig Antich , Teresa: the Body of Christ , Tender, the White and The Oxford Murders , of uneven quality. Together with the Uruguayan singer Jorge Drexler , Leonor made her debut as a mother in 2009.