Cindy Díaz

Acting

Cindy Díaz

Peruvian film, theater, and television actress. Bachelor of Science and Arts in Communication with a specialization in Performing Arts from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Winner of the Best Performance award at the Nox Film Fest (Uruguay) for her portrayal of Cindy in the Chilean film Análogos. Winner of the APRECI (Peruvian Association of Film Critics) award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Sheyla in the award-winning film Rosa Chumbe. In 2012, she starred in the Spanish film Evelyn, for which she received a Goya Award nomination for Best New Actress. She also appeared in the films El Evangelio de la Carne, Contracorriente, and Planta Madre. On Netflix, she starred in the series El Último Bastión, where she portrayed the iconic Manuela Sáenz. On television, she worked in Colombia on the telenovela Todo Es Prestao. She played Marjorie in the Peruvian telenovela "Solo una Madre" and Milagros "La Caperuza" in "Al Fondo Hay Sitio." Her most recent telenovela is "Luz de Esperanza," where she played Rebeca. In theater, she has starred in plays such as "Savia" at the Teatro La Plaza and "La cándida Eréndira y su abuela desalmada" at the Teatro Británico. Her most recent works include "Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare, where she played Lavinia, and "The Just Assassins" by Albert Camus, where she played Dora. She currently has two films awaiting release: "Amor Erizo" and "La Niña del Azúcar," and the play "Actos Consentidos" at La Plaza.

Acting credits

The Girl poster
NR

Haunted by her recent past, a police lieutenant investigates a mysterious case known as 'The Sugar Girl': the appearance of a young girl in a city hotel. Although the authorities do not take the case seriously, the lieutenant suspects there is something deeper hidden, unaware that a macabre truth lies beneath.

The Girl

2026

El retrato poster
NR

Valentina, a young painter who takes care of her sick father, receives the visit of death, who announces that her final time has arrived. In an attempt to get more time to take care of his father, he proposes a deal: Portray her to prolong her life.

El retrato

2025

Criaturas Frágiles poster
NR

After twenty years of silence, two lovers take refuge in a house by the sea to decide whether their connection is true destiny or merely the echo of their lost youth.

Criaturas Frágiles

2026

Evelyn poster
6.3

Evelyn travels to Spain from her native village in Peru. She thinks she will work with her cousin in a restaurant. But she is deceived and kidnapped to engage in prostitution at a road club. This is the story of brainwashing, which transforms a small town girl into a sex slave.

Evelyn

2012

Mira Arriba poster
NR

After his wife's death, Andrés Godoy shuts himself away in his apartment, lost in grief. While his friend Giovanni tries in vain to pull him out, Andrés falls into a vortex of self-destruction that culminates in three suicide attempts, each of which fails miserably. Furious and unrestrained, he plunges into a dangerous underworld that will lead him to confront the boundary between madness and miracle.

Mira Arriba

2023

Rosa Chumbe poster
7.0

Rosa is a mature police officer with both a gambling and a drinking problem. She lives with her daughter Sheila, who has a little baby. One day, after a big fight between them, Sheila steals her mother's savings and storms out of the house leaving her baby behind. Rosa is forced to spend some time with her grandson. Something changes inside her heart of stone. However, everything takes a wrong turn one night. Only a miracle can save her.

Rosa Chumbe

2015

Amor erizo poster
5.2

Alicia and Eduardo married in love, bought a beautiful house, and adopted two cute hedgehogs while they waited to become parents… Then they wondered if that was really what they wanted.

Amor erizo

2025

Undertow poster
7.3

A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.

Undertow

2009

Toxic Jungle poster
NR

A legend of Argentine rock travels to Iquitos to find an old Healer and participate in his Ayahuasca ceremony. You will have to go through the jungle and your own ghosts, on your way to healing.

Toxic Jungle

2013

The Hollows of the Moon poster
NR

Carmen is a shy taxi driver who walks the chaotic streets of downtown Lima. One night, she witnesses a macho attack that brings out her worst fears.

The Hollows of the Moon

2022

The Gospel of the Flesh poster
6.1

Three lives in search of redemption intersect in the streets of Lima: undercover cop Gamarra’s desperate attempts to save his wife from a terminal illness gets him into trouble; bus driver Felix wants to be accepted into a religious sect after his involvement in a tragic traffic accident; and imperiled soccer club leader Narciso tries to secure his younger brother’s release from prison.

The Gospel of the Flesh

2013

No Working on Sundays poster
NR

One Sunday, a young domestic worker rehearses her courageous resignation, with which she hopes to be able to confront her boss.

No Working on Sundays

2023