Aïda Ballmann is an actress, director and producer from the
Canary Islands
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. She was born on the island
El Hierro
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,
Spain
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, and is of German descent.
Education
She studied Dramatic Art in Gijón and finished her degree in Seville in 2009. In addition she trained in Meisner technique (in Germany and Spain), amongst others.
Career
Her first works in theater were with the companies La Sonrisa del Lagarto, Fauna y Arte and La Carbonería de la Lola, with which she participated in more than twelve productions.
She also worked as a stunt, which led her to participate in the productions ''El Oro del Rin'' and ''La Valquiria'' of
La Fura dels Baus
La Fura dels Baus () is a Spanish theatrical group founded in 1979 in Moià, Barcelona (Spain), known for their urban theatre, use of unusual settings and blurring of the boundaries between audience and actor. "La Fura dels Baus" in Catalan me ...
.
In 2012 she starred her first feature film ''
The Extraordinary Tale'', by
J.F. Ortuño and Laura Alvea, shot in English, for which she was awarded best actress at the Cardiff Independent Film Festival and at Film Bizarro, nominated best actress at the Andalusian Film Writers' Association Awards (ASECAN) and reviewed in magazines such as ''Hollywood Reporter''.
Shortly after, she was awarded best actress at the Festivalito for ''Perséfone'' and received the Leoncio Morales Award for her contribution to the culture of her native island.
She participated in series such as
Operación Barrio Inglés,
Una vida menos en Canarias,
Endlich Witwer,
Crossfire
A crossfire (also known as interlocking fire) is a military term for the siting of weapons (often automatic weapons such as assault rifles or sub-machine guns) so that their arcs of fire overlap. This tactic came to prominence in World War I.
...
, ''
Lo que escondían sus ojos
''Lo que escondían sus ojos'' is a Spanish romance television miniseries directed by Salvador Calvo adapting the novel of the same name by Nieves Herrero, which focuses on the adulterous love story between Sonsoles Icaza and Ramón Serrano Suñ ...
'', ''
El Tiempo entre Costuras
''El tiempo entre costuras'' (literally ''The Time Between Seams'', English title: ''The Time in Between'') is a Spanish period drama television series produced by Boomerang TV for Antena 3. It is an adaptation of the same-titled 2009 novel by ...
'', ''
Águila Roja
Águila or Aguila is Spanish for "eagle". It may refer to:
Places
*El Aguila, Valle del Cauca, a town and municipality in Colombia
*Aguila, Arizona, United States
Ships
*, the first ship of the Chilean Navy
*, a British passenger ship sunk in 19 ...
'', ''
Brigada de Fenómenos'' and ''
Malviviendo'' and starred in various Spanish and international feature films. Among them: ''La Velocidad de nuestros Pensamientos'' by Nacho Chueca, the German production ''Die Insel'' by Lars Ostmann, ''El Gigante y la Sirena'' by Roberto Chinet, ''Atlánticas'' by Guillermo García López, ''The Europeans'' by Víctor García León, ''Gleich'' by Jeniffer Castañeda, ''The metamorphosis of Narcissus'', by the Iranian director Hamed Alizadeh or ''L´avia i el foraster'' by Sergi Miralles.
Of her short films, ''Five Minutes'' by Genesis Lence and co-starred with her sister Serai Ballmann, stands out. Its world premiere was at the Short Film Corner section of the
74th Cannes Film Festival. For this work she was nominated best actress at VIFA 2022.
Her debut as a director and producer was with the documentary ''Sand Path'',
screened at more than forty festivals, in which she talks about interculturality.
Filmography
TV credits
Theater
Awards
References
External links
* https://aidaballmann.com/es/inicio/ (Official Website)
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Living people
Spanish people of German descent
21st-century Spanish actresses
Spanish directors
1985 births
Actresses from the Canary Islands