Cristina Peña Raigal (born 27 July 1976) is a Spanish stage, film, and television actress.
Biography
She studied at the Juan Carlos Corazza school. She began in the interpretation with small roles on films and TV series (''
Manos a la obra'', ''
Médico de familia
''Médico de familia'' (Family Doctor) is a Spanish comedy drama television series produced by Globomedia for Telecinco. The series premiered at the end of 1995, to become the most popular Tuesday night show for four years and made Telecinco a pop ...
'' or ''
El comisario
''El comisario'' is a Spanish police drama television series that originally aired for twelve seasons from 1999 to 2009 on Telecinco. Produced by BocaBoca and Estudios Picasso and starring an ensemble cast with the likes of Tito Valverde, Juanj ...
'').
Her first major role was as the protagonist in the 2001 short film ''Dame cambio''. The same year Peña filmed the TV series ''
Compañeros'' (
Antena 3) and took part in the series until 2002, becoming a well known face to the audience. Peña then acted in several roles in film and television, for example
7 vidas
''7 Vidas'' is a Spanish sitcom that aired on Telecinco from 1999 to 2006. Its title translates as "7 lives" and the symbol of the sitcom is a cat, in reference to the belief that cats have 7 lives (in contrast to English-speaking countries, wh ...
(
Telecinco
Telecinco is a Spanish free-to-air television channel operated by Mediaset España. The channel was previously known as Tele 5, because it had first begun its experimental transmissions on 10 March 1989, and a year later, it was officially laun ...
), until 2006, when she collaborated on the TV program ''
El Intermedio
''El Intermedio'' (''The Intermission'' in Spanish) is a Spanish news satire television program produced by Globomedia and broadcast on LaSexta since 2006. It was created by Miguel Sánchez Romero, who created similar successful comedy shows such ...
'' (
LaSexta
La Sexta (; ; stylised as laSexta) is a privately owned Spanish free-to-air television channel that was founded on 18 March 2001 as Beca TV and began broadcasting on 1 April 2001. By 21 July 2003, the channel ran into debt and was shut down, bu ...
). After she returned to the television series.
Personal life
She was formerly married to the actor
Enrique Arce
Enrique Javier Arce Temple (born October 8, 1972) is a Spanish television and film actor.
Biography
Arce was born in Valencia, Spain on 8 October 1972. He originally went to university to study law, but during his fourth year, he decided to mov ...
. Peña has one daughter with musician Pachi Delgado. She is married with businessman
Livio Lo Monaco with whom she had a daughter, Adriana (2012).
Filmography
Films
*''Gitano'' (2000, as Prostitute)
*''Dame Cambio'' (2001, as Vanesa)
*''Peor imposible, ¿qué puede fallar?'' (2002, as Chica calle tarde)
*''Cuestión de química'' (2007)
*''Trío de ases: el secreto de la Atlántida'' (2008, as Salimbna)
Television
*''
Médico de familia
''Médico de familia'' (Family Doctor) is a Spanish comedy drama television series produced by Globomedia for Telecinco. The series premiered at the end of 1995, to become the most popular Tuesday night show for four years and made Telecinco a pop ...
'' (1999)
*''
Al salir de clase
''Al salir de clase'' is a Spanish teen drama television series produced by BocaBoca. The 1,199-episode-long broadcasting run on Telecinco
Telecinco is a Spanish free-to-air television channel operated by Mediaset España. The channel was pr ...
'' (1999, as Michelle)
*''
El comisario
''El comisario'' is a Spanish police drama television series that originally aired for twelve seasons from 1999 to 2009 on Telecinco. Produced by BocaBoca and Estudios Picasso and starring an ensemble cast with the likes of Tito Valverde, Juanj ...
'' (1999 – 2002, as Adela / Ana / Charlie's friend)
*''
Compañeros'' (2001 – 2002, as Jose)
*''Tres son multitud'' (2003, as Bárbara Montes)
*''Casi Perfectos'' (2004 – 2005, as Carmen)
*''
Aída
''Aída'' is a Spanish sitcom that aired on Telecinco from 16 January 2005 to 8 June 2014. Set in Madrid, it is a Spin-off (media), spin off of the sitcom ''7 Vidas'', on which Aída was a recurring character. It was produced by Globomedia.
The ...
'' (2005, as Remedios)
*''Obsesión'' (2005)
*''
7 vidas
''7 Vidas'' is a Spanish sitcom that aired on Telecinco from 1999 to 2006. Its title translates as "7 lives" and the symbol of the sitcom is a cat, in reference to the belief that cats have 7 lives (in contrast to English-speaking countries, wh ...
'' (2005 – 2006, as Irene)
*''LEX'' (2008, as Sara Segovia)
*''
El Intermedio
''El Intermedio'' (''The Intermission'' in Spanish) is a Spanish news satire television program produced by Globomedia and broadcast on LaSexta since 2006. It was created by Miguel Sánchez Romero, who created similar successful comedy shows such ...
'' (2006–2008)
*''
Somos cómplices'' (2009, as Soledad Méndez)
*''Las chicas de oro'' (2010)
*''Alfonso, el príncipe maldito'' (2010, as
Carmen Martínez-Bordiú
María del Carmen Martínez-Bordiú y Franco (born 26 February 1951), commonly known as Carmen Martínez-Bordiú, is a Spanish aristocrat and social figure.
Martínez-Bordiú was the Duke of Franco, 2nd Duchess of Franco from July 2018''Boletí ...
)
*''Seis motivos para dudar de tus amigos'' (2011)
*''
Los misterios de Laura
''Los misterios de Laura'' () is a prime-time Spanish police procedural comedy-drama television series that was broadcast on La 1 of Televisión Española from 2009 to 2014, followed by three television movies broadcast in 2022 and 2023. It stars ...
'' (2011–present, as Verónica Lebrel)
*''
BuenAgente
''BuenAgente'' is a Spanish comedy television series that originally aired on LaSexta from 5 May 2011 to 2 December 2011. The cast is led by Antonio Molero, Malena Alterio, Arturo Valls, Carmen Ruiz, Patricia Montero and Raúl Fernández.
Pre ...
'' (2011)
*''
Gran Reserva'' (2013, as forensics)
*''
Bienvenidos al Lolita
''Bienvenidos al Lolita'' is a Spanish dramedy television series set in a cabaret club. Produced by Globomedia for Antena 3, it aired on the latter channel from January 2014 to February 2014.
Premise
The series is about the backstage mishaps o ...
'' (2014–present, as Norma)
Theater
* ''The Pelopidas''
* ''A la caza de la extranjera''
* ''La otra costilla''
* ''
La casa de Bernarda Alba
''The House of Bernarda Alba'' () is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. Commentators have often grouped it with '' Blood Wedding'' and '' Yerma'' as the Rural Trilogy. García Lorca did not include it in his plan for a "t ...
''
* ''Así en los parques como en el cielo''
* ''5 mujeres.com'' (2005)
* ''Hombres, mujeres y punto'' (2006)
* ''
The Taming of the Shrew
''The Taming of the Shrew'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunke ...
'' (2009)
* ''
Rumors
A rumor (American English), or rumour (British English; American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, see spelling differences; derived from Latin 'noise'), is an unverified piece of information circulating among people, especial ...
'' (2011)
* ''Se infiel y no mires con quién'' (2011)
* ''Violines y trompetas'' (2012)
* ''Ni contigo... Sin ni Ti (2012)
References
External links
*
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1976 births
Entertainers from Granada
Living people
Spanish television actresses
Spanish film actresses
Spanish stage actresses
21st-century Spanish actresses