Celebrity Biographies
Malena alterio
Malena is an actress name, specifically one that belongs to an illustrious lineage of actors. She exudes naturalness and self-confidence and without making a big fuss, Malena Alterio has made a name for herself playing simple women.
Born on January 21, 1974 in the capital of Argentina, Malena Grisel Alerio Bacalcoa is the daughter of Tita Bacalcoa, a psychologist, and the great actor Héctor Alterio “I admire his way of being and acting, he is my guide, my mirror. I aspire to reach the tip of his big toe as a person and as an artist, ”she says of him. Her older brother, Ernesto, is also a famous actor. “My brother is a very creative person who never stops undertaking projects.”
Shortly after Malena was born, the 1976 Argentine coup took place, and her father, a political activist, moved the whole family to Spain. “I feel Spanish, because of my childhood and my memories, although I maintain a very special bond with Argentina,” explains Malena.
He studied acting at the school of the prestigious Argentine teacher Cristina Rota , who had also trained his brother. She made her first steps in television with a small role in the series Hermanas , and made her debut on the big screen as Violeta, the badass who is part of a diverse quartet of robbers in El palo , a comedy by Eva Lesmes , where she already showed that she was capable of doing laugh to the respectable Not in vain, she obtained a Goya nomination for the most recent actress.
But it was the small screen that made him famous. After playing the agent Lorena in El comisario , she established herself playing the deranged Belén López Vázquez, in Aquí no hay quien viva , where she had a stormy romance with the doorman, Fernando Tejero , who also became immensely popular. When the series was canceled, its creators gathered most of the cast for La que se avecina , a very similar series, in which Malena only spent the first season playing a neighbor named Cristina Aguilera.
He has also worked with Fernando Tejero on Torremolinos 73 , Días de cine , Al final del camino and Cinco meteres cuadrados , the second work by Max Lemcke , with whom Malena had already worked on Casual Day . In La torre de Suso she was Marta, an old girlfriend of the protagonist, played by Javier Cámara , in Born to suffer a nun and in the discreet Miguel and William she gave life to Doña Leonor, the eldest of the duke’s daughters who was going to marry Elena Anaya ‘s character .
Up to now, his best work in the cinema has been as the protagonist of Una palabra tuya , by the later Minister of Culture Ángeles González-Sinde, which adapted a novel by Elvira Lindo . She played Rosario, a sweeper who accompanied her partner, Milagros ( Esperanza Pedreño ), and her boyfriend ( Antonio de la Torre ) to her town, to bury the cat.
In this tape, the actor Luis Bermejo , her boyfriend in real life, appeared playing a priest . Working with her brought him luck, as Bermejo received a nomination for Best New Actor for that work.