Alexandra Jiménez Arrechea (born 4 January 1980) is a Spanish

actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

. She became popular for her role as África Sanz in the

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'' Los Serrano''. She starred in the TV series ''

La pecera de Eva ''La pecera de Eva'' () is a Spanish television series produced by Isla Producciones starring Alexandra Jiménez as Eva Padrón, a psychologist working in a high school. Its four seasons aired from January 2010 to December 2011 on Telecinco, LaSi ...

'', broadcast between 2010 and 2011. Between 2015 and 2016 she hosted the

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show '.

Biography

She was born in

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on 4 January 1980. When Jiménez was young, she did ballet and trained at the Zaragoza's Estudio de Danza María de Ávila and the Madrid's Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza. She became a professional ballet dancer when she was 15 years old. After an injury while she was working for the Cuban National Ballet, she set out on an acting career. Jiménez studied acting in

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at the and made small appearances in television series such as ''Periodistas'', '' Policías, en el corazón de la calle'' and ''Compañeros'' during her studies. In 2004, she joined '' Los Serrano'', where she played África Sanz. Between 2010 and 2011, she starred in the TV series ''

'', playing the main role of Eva Padrón, a psychologist dedicated to solving the problems of a group of teenagers. She replayed the popular role of Eva in 2012 in the finale of the first season of . She replaced Eva Hache as hostess of the TV

show in

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, hosting the show between 2015 and 2016.

Filmography

Television

Film

Theatre

*''Fin del mundo, todos al tren'' (2002) *''Los menecomos'' (2002) *''Siete por siete'' (2003) *''5mujeres.com'' (2004) *''Hombres, mujeres y punto'' *''Un pequeño juego, sin consecuencias'' (2006)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jimenez, Alexandra 1980 births Living people Actresses from Zaragoza Spanish stage actresses Spanish television actresses Spanish film actresses 21st-century Spanish actresses Spanish stand-up comedians Spanish women comedians Spanish women television presenters