Silvia Munt

Born in Barcelona on March 24, 1957, Silvia Munt Quevedo devoted her childhood to dancing, an artistic discipline in which she began at the age of five. She was examined every year in classical dance at the Royal Ballet in London, where she had to go annually, until she received her degree. She combined this activity with her studies, so she attended high school at the French Schools. She became a professional, and she emancipated at the age of 16, to go live in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where she began to study Psychology, but she finally left it to dedicate herself fully to choreography.

Her life changed when Juanjo Puigcorbé hired her, at the age of 19, to play the elf Puck, in a production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare . She discovered that what she really liked was acting.

He also made his film debut with Puigcorbé in La orgía , by Francesc Bellmunt . She also appeared briefly performing a dance number in Barcelona Sur , in a sequence that caught the attention of producer Pepón Corominas, who decided to hire her for La plaza del diamante , directed by Francesc Betriu , an adaptation of the famous novel by Mercè Rodoreda . It was released first as a movie, and then as a series, and Silvia Munt became very popular playing Natalia, “la Colometa”, a woman trying to get ahead in the years of the Civil War. “She is a woman with great sensitivity, in a difficult time”, commented Silvia Munt of her character.

Since then, prestigious filmmakers have worked with her, such as José Luis Cuerda ( Evens and Odds ), Pedro Olea ( Akelarre ), Fernando Trueba ( Sal Gorda ), Ventura Pons ( El porqué de las cosas ), Mariano Barroso ( Éxtasis ), Vicente Aranda ( The Turkish Passion ), Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón ( El rey del río ) and José Luis Borau , who hired her to play a nun in the series Celia. Two mother roles stand out in her filmography, that of Secretos del corazón , by Montxo Armendáriz , and the woman obsessed with having a boy, after giving birth to a girl, in Butterfly Wings , Juanma Bajo Ulloa ‘s promising debut . For this last role, Silvia Munt won the Goya for best actress, one of the three that the film received.

Silvia Munt dedicates a large part of her professional activity to the theater. Furthermore, she is a prolific director. His moving work De ella Lalia – about a Saharawi girl – won the Goya for best short film. She has subsequently shot various telefilms for Catalan regional television and the film Pretexts , where she also played the protagonist, a theater director in a marital crisis. She played her husband, the actor Ramón Madaula , who is also her partner in real life, after the actress divorced Miquel Cors, father of her three daughters.