Paulina Gaitán Ruiz (born July 23, 1991) is a Mexican actress. She is best known throughout Mexican television and movies. She is more recently known for her role in the popular

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series, ''

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'', as the devoted young wife of Colombian drug kingpin

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Biography

Paulina Gaitán was born in

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. Gaitán started acting at age 9 and at the age of 12 had an important role in Mexican director

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's '' Innocent Voices'', a tale about the civil war in

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. She was the female lead in the

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film '' Sin Nombre'', where she played the character of Sayra, who joins her father and uncle when they try to migrate from Honduras to the United States, and ends up travelling with El Casper, a gang member, played by actor

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. Gaitán also played a girl kidnapped by sex traffickers in the 2007 movie ''

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'' alongside

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. She portrayed Sabina, a lead role in the Mexican horror drama '' We Are What We Are'' (''Somos Lo Que Hay'') in 2010.Cannes Video Day 4: Jorge Michel Grau's We Are What We Are (Somos lo que hay)
Ioncinema.com (2010-05-15); retrieved 2011-06-04. In addition, she has played the role of Zuvely in the short film '' En Tus Manos'', which was also released in 2010. In 2012, Gaitán starred in the ensemble cast of the ABC Steven Spielberg series '' The River''. Since 2015, she has starred in the Netflix original series ''

'' as Tata, the wife of narcoterrorist

. In 2018, she began starring as Violetta, the female lead in the

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Original Series '' Diablo Guardián''.

Filmography

Films

Television

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gaitan, Paulina 1991 births Actresses from Mexico City Living people Mexican child actresses Mexican film actresses Mexican television actresses