Catalina Sandino Moreno

Acting

Catalina Sandino Moreno

Born 1981-04-19 · Bogotá, Colombia

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).

Acting credits

The Rip poster
7.1

Trust frays when a team of Miami cops discovers millions in cash inside a run-down stash house, calling everyone — and everything — into question.

The Rip

2026

Ballerina poster
7.3

Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Eve Macarro begins her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma.

Ballerina

2025

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

Silent Night poster
6.2

A tormented father witnesses his young son die when caught in a gang's crossfire on Christmas Eve. While recovering from a wound that costs him his voice, he makes vengeance his life's mission and embarks on a punishing training regimen in order to avenge his son's death.

Silent Night

2023

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 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

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

Love in the Time of Cholera poster
6.7

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

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

Fast Food Nation poster
6.1

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

Fast Food Nation

2006

Netflix Tudum 2025 poster
5.5

Celebrate your favorite shows and movies at this star-studded, live global fan event with special performances and exclusive reveals.

Netflix Tudum 2025

2025

The Quarry poster
5.2

A man on the run from his own sins, finds himself in a small border town in Texas, impersonating a reverend. The town are quickly drawn to the man's unorthodox sermons, but so is a police chief who has his suspicions.

The Quarry

2020

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

Outlaws - For Greater Glory poster
6.8

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

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

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

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

Barbarians poster
5.1

A civilized dinner party in a country house sees four friends, Lucas, Adam, Chloe, and Eve, coming together for a birthday celebration. As the night progresses secrets and lies force themselves into the light and polite pretensions are dropped. A knock at the door reveals three masked intruders with an agenda of their own. Will their friendship stand the test? Can they survive the night or will their secrets eventually catch up with them?

Barbarians

2021

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

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

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

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