Angélica María Cepeda Jiménez (born 2 August 1974), professionally known as Angie Cepeda, is a Colombian actress. She is best known for her roles in the telenovela ''

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'' and the films '' Captain Pantoja and the Special Services'' and '' Love in the Time of Cholera''. She is the younger sister of actress

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Early life

Cepeda was born in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, and raised in

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. After her parents divorced she lived with her mother and two older sisters (one of whom is actress

Career

When she discovered her vocation in drama, she moved out to

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. After starting her drama courses, she was contracted by a beer company and made some advertisements for it. Next, she played some

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s in several soap operas and movies in Colombia. Cepeda got a role in the soap opera ''Las Juanas'', getting the attention of some TV producers who offered her jobs in prime time shows, such as the leading role in ''Luz Maria'' (1998), co-starring Christian Meier and Rosalinda Serfaty, and that as Fiorella Morelli Flores de Mejía Guzmán in ''

'' (2000), opposite

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and

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. In the cinematic world, Peruvian director Francisco Lombardi convinced her to portray a

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called "La Colombiana" in '' Pantaleón y las Visitadoras'' (released in English as '' Captain Pantoja and the Special Services''). In 2021, she voiced Julieta Madrigal in the English, Spanish and Italian language versions of the Disney animated musical film '' Encanto''.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cepeda, Angie 1974 births 20th-century Colombian actresses Colombian female models Colombian film actresses Colombian telenovela actresses Colombian television actresses Living people People from Barranquilla People from Cartagena, Colombia 21st-century Colombian actresses