Lydia Martina Zimmermann Kuoni (born 30 December 1966 in
Barcelona
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,
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,
Spain
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
) is a
Spanish
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* Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
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El País
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'' (in Spanish). 7 January 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2015. «los padres de Lydia –el diseñador gráfico Yves Zimmermann y la diseñadora textil y antropóloga Bignia Kuoni,» «Actriz, nominada a los premios Gaudí por su papel en F, realizadora, guionista y directora,» «Presumida a su pesar, le gusta la sencillez. Los años vividos en Estados Unidos, Australia y Canadá la han acostumbrado a comprar en comercios de segunda mano,» and «Los padres de Lydia, ambos suizos, se conocieron en Estados Unidos y llegaron a Barcelona por motivos laborales.»
Biography
Lydia Zimmermann is the daughter of
Swiss
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Yves Zimmermann, a graphic designer, and Bignia Silvia Zimmermann-Kuoni, an anthropologist and textile designer.
She studied film in VCA Melbourne, Australia, and has worked and filmed in Spain, Haiti, Burkina Faso, Myanmar, Colombia and Switzerland.
In addition, Zimmermann has taught at the European Film Actor School, at the
Pompeu Fabra University
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Jacmel
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,
Haiti
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. She is one of the founders of the
Zürich
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-based film production company Artisan Films GmbH, the cultural verei Kunstruktur and the Artists in Residenc Curtidas She has studied under
Jonathan Demme
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,
Lindsay Kemp
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Sergi Belbel
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Career
Born in Terrassa, Belbel's first play was ''Calidoscopios y faros de hoy'' in 1 ...
The Strategy of the Snail
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'' for the theatre group Comicastros, and has a M.A. at
Zurich University of the Arts
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Agustí Villaronga
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and Isaac Pierre Marcel Racine, in which she also had an uncredited cameo and for which she appeared, together with Racine and Villaronga, on '' Versión española'', directed by Félix Piñuela and broadcast by
Televisión Española
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, on 1 April 2005 and on ''Sala 33'', directed by Àlex Gorina i Macià and broadcast by TV3, on 18 December 2010. She has also, among other activities, played the role of a caregiver in
Agustí Villaronga
Agustí Villaronga Riutort (; 4 March 1953 – 22 January 2023) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed several feature films, a documentary, three projects for television and three shorts. His film '' Moon Child'' was ...
's film '' Moon Child'' (1989), her acting debut, as well as the roles of a mourner in Antoni Aloy's 1999 film adaptation of the 1898
Henry James
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novella ''
The Turn of the Screw
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'' titled ''
Presence of Mind
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Synopsis
...
'', a mother in Gemma Ventura's 2009 short film about
Carl Jung
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Judith Colell
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Biography
Colell was awarded a degree in art history at the Univers ...
, in which she appears among the acknowledged, and of Ana de Pombo in
Agustí Villaronga
Agustí Villaronga Riutort (; 4 March 1953 – 22 January 2023) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed several feature films, a documentary, three projects for television and three shorts. His film '' Moon Child'' was ...
's 2013 television series ''
Carta a Eva
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Premise
The fiction deals about how the lives of three di ...
'' broadcast by La 1. She appeared on 27 November 2014 on the television program ''Àrtic'' broadcast by Betevé. She codirected with
Agustí Villaronga
Agustí Villaronga Riutort (; 4 March 1953 – 22 January 2023) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed several feature films, a documentary, three projects for television and three shorts. His film '' Moon Child'' was ...
a television documentary titled ''Fe'' about and broadcast by
RTVE
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as part of the series ''50 años de'' on 10 December 2009, and worked as a camera operator during the production of
Mariano Barroso
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Since 9 June 2018, he ...
's
1994
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film ''Mi hermano del alma'' and the
2011
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Andrei Tarkovsky
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's 1966 film ''
Andrei Rublev
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'',
Blanca Portillo
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Career
Portillo started as an actress in several small theater productions before graduating in drama from the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático.
One of he ...
's incarnation of
Mary
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during a stage adaptation of
Colm Tóibín
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His first novel, '' The South'', was published in 1990. '' The Blackwater Lightship'' was shortlis ...
Agustí Villaronga
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, the
Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc
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Théodore Géricault
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's 1818–1819 painting ''
The Raft of the Medusa
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'' as well as his other work, a 2012 homage to
Maria Mercè Marçal
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Marçal was born in Barcelona but spent her childhood in Ivars d'Urgell (Pla d'Urgell), which she consi ...
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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and
Robert Capa
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Banco Sabadell
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, has appeared at the
Centre d'Art Santa Mònica
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and at the
Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc
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. Two television films directed by her, ''La dona de gel'' (2003) and ''Perfecta pell'' (2005), were broadcast by
RAI
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and TV3, and she has also written a screenplay based on
Paul Auster
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's 1995 short story collection ''
The Red Notebook
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'' titled ''Correspondencia''. She was also listed in the acknowledgments in
Antonio Chavarrías
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Ariel Award
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2011
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Gaudí Awards
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for her role in '' Elisa K'' (2010), and, in September 2002, she was nominated for the
Golden Shell
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at the
San Sebastián International Film Festival
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Joel Joan
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Joan studied dramatic arts at Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. He began his acting career on the stage, appearing in productions directed by ...
and Adrian Smith. A 1995 short film directed by her titled ''Wake'' also won the Best Director Award at the
St Kilda Short Film Festival
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Bibliography
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Agustí Villaronga
Agustí Villaronga Riutort (; 4 March 1953 – 22 January 2023) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed several feature films, a documentary, three projects for television and three shorts. His film '' Moon Child'' was ...
British Film Institute
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Moviefone
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