Mariana Peñalva
- Actress
- Producer
- Casting Department
Actress Mariana Dominguez Peñalva was born in Mexico City, daughter of
Mexican Painter and Mexican Opera Singer. At an early age she moved to
Cuernavaca, where she first studied acting with Esther Orozco. By the
age of 17 she started her Professional Acting Career with the Mexican
Telenovela Mirada de Mujer as Andrea, which was a complete success in
Mexican television. Later she studied acting in Centro de formación
Actoral with Hector Mendoza y Raul Quintanilla. She got her first
approach to films, when she was asked to be Angeline Jolie camera
double at Original Sin. In 2000 she travels to Europe and establish in
France to finish her degree in Arts, in the almost 4 years she spent in
Europe she got the opportunity to work in some Independent Films such
as Girl with a Pearl Earring with Scarlett Johansson. At her return to
México she worked in some Mexican Television programs like La vida es
una Cancion, Heredera, Tormenta en el paraíso y El Pantera. She also
worked in seven short films, some of theme are participating in
International Film Festivals. On 2007 she got the opportunity to make
her first role in the blockbuster Mexican Film Tear this heart out as
Mercedes, working with the renowned Mexican actor Daniel Giménez Cacho
and Ana Claudia Talancon with whom she worked again recently at the
Mexican TV Series Terminales as Vanessa. In 2008 she obtained her first
starring role in the Independent Film Written in blood as Nina, were
she co-starred with Carlos Ortega and the Uruguayan actress Cecilia
Cósero. In the present she is support actress in the Feature Film
Return, produced and directed by Mexican Film Director Alejandro
Gonzalez Padilla, were she will be sharing credits along the renown
Actor Jaime Camil, Blanca Soto, Daniela Schmidt, Victor Huggo Martin
and the Spanish Actor Javier Tolosa, this film is actually contesting
in the 2010 Edition of the New York International Latino Film Festival
and earned the Award of the Best Entertaining Picture at the Monaco
Charity Film Festival in it's 2010 edition. Mariana Peñalva is on talks
for the project called The Cabinetmaker's wardrobe and my friend The
Death for 2011 and 2 more projects in the female leading role
character, one to be partially shoot at Paris.
