Catalina Sandino Moreno

Acting

Catalina Sandino Moreno

Born

1981-04-19 (45)

Place of birth

Bogotá, Colombia

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Catalina Sandino Moreno (born 19 April 1981) is a Colombian actress. She is most notable for receiving the Academy Award for Best Actress nomination and sharing the Silver Bear with Charlize Theron for her performance as the lead role in Maria Full of Grace (2004).  Other credits include Fast Food Nation (2006), Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), Che (2008), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), Roa (2013), A Most Violent Year (2014), Falling Skies (2014), American Gothic (2016), Custody (2016), The Affair (2015–2019),  The Quarry (2020, Barbarians (2021), From (2022), Silent Night (2023), and Ballerina (2024).

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

2010s · 14 titles

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse poster
6.2

Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob, knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

2010

A Most Violent Year poster
6.6

A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

A Most Violent Year

2014

Incarnate poster
5.4

An exorcist comes up against an evil from his past when he uses his skills to enter the mind of a nine year old boy.

Incarnate

2016

Outlaws - For Greater Glory poster
6.9

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

Outlaws - For Greater Glory

2012

Swelter poster
5.0

Ten years after their casino heist, four escaped convicts trace their former partner to a desert town, where he is now a lawman with no memory of his criminal past.

Swelter

2014

At the Devil's Door poster
4.7

When ambitious young real estate agent Leigh is asked to sell a house with a checkered past, she crosses paths with a disturbed girl whom she learns is the runaway daughter of the couple selling the property. When Leigh tries to intervene and help her, she becomes entangled with a supernatural force that soon pulls Leigh's artist sister Vera into its web - and has sinister plans for both of them.

At the Devil's Door

2014

Magic Magic poster
5.1

In remote Chile, a vacationing young woman begins to mentally unravel; meanwhile, her friends ignore her claim until it's too late.

Magic Magic

2013

Custody poster
6.9

When a hard-working single mother, Sara Diaz, has her children taken from her after she is suspected of injuring her son, Ally Fisher, a recent law school graduate, is assigned to represent her case before Judge Martha Schulman, a veteran of the Family Court System.

Custody

2016

A Stranger in Paradise poster
5.4

On the verge of making partner, Josh Pratt’s (Colin Egglesfield) life is turned upside down when the SEC investigates the head of his multi-billion dollar hedge fund for insider trading. Forced into a well-timed “vacation” he never asked for Josh finds himself in Bangkok with a price on his head, a morally ambiguous brother who is knee deep into the Thai mafia, and a propensity for getting shot at. Unfortunately for Josh, the only way out is to give up information he doesn’t know he has.

A Stranger in Paradise

2013

Portraits in Dramatic Time poster
8.0

A series of 40 art films created by artist David Michalek featuring performances of theater artists and actors of all genres and nationalities both well-known and under-recognized.

Portraits in Dramatic Time

2011

Medeas poster
5.7

An intimate portrait of a rural family's inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting landscape.

Medeas

2013

Roa poster
6.4

Roa is a fictionalized account, based on real facts, about Juan Roa Sierra, the supposed killer of Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, Colombian politician and lawyer, dissident candidate of the Liberal Party for the 1950 Presidential elections, which he had a very high probability of winning.

Roa

2013

No artwork available
NR

An ex-cop living in rural Florida is drawn into an investigation involving a sunken treasure.

Salvage

2018

The Next Season poster
NR

Emotionally battered by the paternal relationship with her husband, Eva is a young immigrant photographer, a misfit who strives to find the perfect light. Her passion for life itself is drying like leaves in winter. A letter written by Eva's mother brings her rebirth, fixing like a photograph in her memory the unique moment she had been waiting for.

The Next Season

2011

2000s · 10 titles

Paris Je T'aime poster
6.8

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.

Paris Je T'aime

2006

Che: Part One poster
6.8

Ernesto Guevara, known as 'Che', leads a group of Cuban exiles under Fidel Castro in a revolution to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba.

Che: Part One

2008

Che: Part Two poster
6.6

Seven years after his triumph in Cuba, Che winds up in Bolivia, where he tries to ignite the same revolutionary fires as before.

Che: Part Two

2008

Love in the Time of Cholera poster
6.6

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

Love in the Time of Cholera

2007

Maria Full of Grace poster
7.2

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.

Maria Full of Grace

2004

The Hottest State poster
5.5

A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.

The Hottest State

2007

Fast Food Nation poster
6.0

A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.

Fast Food Nation

2006

Journey to the End of the Night poster
5.9

In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, the exiled Americans Rosso and his son Paul own a brothel. Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted in cocaine and his father is married with the former prostitute Angie, and they have a little son. When a client is killed by his wife in their establishment, they find a suitcase with drugs.

Journey to the End of the Night

2006

The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation' poster
NR

A full-length documentary chronicling filmmaker Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser throughout their journey making the movie 'Fast Food Nation,' featuring Linklater and the cast of the movie in rehearsals, shooting, and interviews.

The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'

2007

The Heart of the Earth poster
4.9

Tensions mount in an Andalusia mining town between local Spanish workers and their British employers.

The Heart of the Earth

2007

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