Marina de Tavira Servitje (born 21 November 1974) is a Mexican actress. She is internationally known for her role in the film ''

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'' (2018), which received widespread acclaim and earned her an

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nomination.

Life and career

She studied acting at the Casa del Teatro, the Nucleus of Theater Studies, and the San Cayetano Theater Training Center. Her first job after graduating was acting in the play ''Feliz nuevo siglo doktor Freud'' (''Happy New Century, Doktor Freud'') by

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. Marina de Tavira's father, a high official in the Mexican criminal justice system, was murdered in 2000, a day before her acting debut in Berman's play. Luis Rosales, a casting director at

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, was at this debut and later asked her to participate in

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's film ''

''. She is part of the Casa del Teatro teachers college. She is a member and founder, along with Enrique Singer, of the Incidente Teatro production company with which they have premiered '' Betrayal'' by

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, ''

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'' by

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, ''La mujer justa'' by Hugo Urquijo (based on the novel by Sándor Márai), and '' The Anarchist'' by David Mamet. She has participated in more than 25 productions such as ''

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''. In 2019, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the character Sofía in ''Roma'', alongside Amy Adams,

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and Rachel Weisz in the same category. After this nomination, she returned to the theater in the play ''Skylight'', at her alma mater, the Casa del Teatro in Mexico City.

Personal life

Family

Her grandfather Lorenzo Servitje is the founder of

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, and her uncle

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is the current

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. Tavira's maternal history is linked to Juan Servitje Torrallardona, a Catalan who came to Mexico in 1904. He would open the El Molino pastry shop, which would remain in the hands of his son Lorenzo. Juan had seven children. One of them, María Lucila Isabel Servitje Montull, served as a teacher in theology and director of the Mexican Institute of Christian Social Doctrine. María married Tavira, with whom she had three children, including Marina. Marina de Tavira's father, Juan Pablo de Tavira Noriega, was a prominent Mexican crimonologist, a lawyer, and the first director of Mexico's Altiplano Prison, overseeing such high-security prison inmates as Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán,

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and Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo. After multiple death threats, Juan Pablo was murdered under mysterious circumstances in November 2000. Marina de Tavira is the niece of the theater director Luis de Tavira and the actress

Rosa María Bianchi Rosa María Bianchi (born February 18, 1948, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentinean-born Mexican actress. Personal life Bianchi was married with director of theater Luis de Tavira. They have two sons, José María (b. 1983) & Julián. S ...

; she is the cousin of Pedro de Tavira Egurrola and

José María de Tavira José María de Tavira Bianchi (born September 27, 1983, in Mexico City) is a Mexican film and stage actor. The son of Mexican theatre director Luis de Tavira and Argentine actress Rosa María Bianchi, he began acting on stage with his parents; ...

. From 2012 to 2019, she had a relationship with Mexican actor Rafael Sánchez Navarro. From 2019 to 2021, she had a relationship with Mexican actor Diego Luna. De Tavira has maintained a private personal life; she has one child.

Filmography

Awards & nominations

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:de Tavira, Marina Ariel Award winners Living people Actresses from Mexico City 20th-century Mexican actresses 21st-century Mexican actresses 1974 births Mexican people of Catalan descent