movies: catalina sandino

Catalina Sandino was born in 1981 in Bogotá. She is an Academy Award-nominated Colombian Actress. Before becoming an actress, she studied advertising at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. She relocated to New York City in 2004, after being discovered at the Rubén Di Pietro acting school in Bogotá. She was recommended to audition for the 2004 film Maria Full of Grace, where she was eventually chosen over 900 girls for the lead role.

Catalina's role in Maria Full of Grace made her the first Colombian to ever be nominated for an Academy Award. She is the 2nd Latin American actress to be nominated. Not only did this role bring her fame. She also met her husband, David Elwell, a motion picture electrician, on the set. They married in 2006 in Cartagena de Indias.

She's been extremely busy since Maria Full of Grace, filming movies such as Journey to the End of the Night, Fast Food Nation, Paris, je t'aime, Heart of the Earth, Love in the Time of Cholera, and The Argentine.