Norma Martínez

Peruvian Hispanic actress, director and screenwriter, born in Lima. After graduating in Advertising Sciences from the Peruvian Institute of Advertising Ipp, she began her acting training independently in various training workshops in Peru, England and Spain. She has worked in film, TV and theater in Peru, Ecuador, Spain and Colombia. She studied film direction with Enrica Pérez and was an assistant director for actors in the recent film La Costurera by Daniel Rodriguez with whom she shared the direction table. Among her recent works as an actress in film in 2021, in Spain, she participated in the film La Casa Del Caracol, Macarena Astorga's first film. And in the film Soltera recuperate 2 in Arequipa, Peru directed by Joanna Lombardi. She co-starred in the film La Vergüenza, by Spanish director David Planell, winner of the Biznaga DE Oro for Best Film at the 2009 Malaga Film Festival. She also participated in the film Altiplano directed by Peter Brossens and Jessica Woodworth, exhibited at Critics' Week in Cannes and in Prueba DE Vida, alongside Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe, by director Taylor Hackford. In Peru, she has participated in the films El Evangelio DE la Carne, Encadenados, Lima 13, Rocanrol 68, among several others. She won the award for best actress at the 4th International Short Film Festival La Noche DE Los Cortos, for her work in Cuidados Intensives directed by Brian Jacobs. In 2021, she directed and starred in the short film Varado, winner of the Fae Lima creative incentives. In addition, she was executive producer of the pilot for the series Vuela Conmigo. In 2021, she co-starred in the series Princesas broadcast by America television and produced by Protv. Previously, she had the antagonistic role in the series La Esclava Blanca, produced by Caracol TV Colombia, which can now be seen on Netflix. Her work was recognized with several nominations for different international awards. In 2023 and 2024, she is part of the cast of the series El Inmortal 2 and El Juego Del Alma, produced and filmed in Madrid, Spain. Among her latest theater works, at the beginning of 2019 she directed an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando at the Teatro Británico in Lima. For 12 years, she has hosted the cultural space Sucedió en el Perú dedicated to history on the national channel TVPerú. Since 2018, she has starred in and directed the one-man show Solo Cosas Geniales, by the English playwright Duncan Macmillan, with great critical and public success. The play continues to be presented and has toured throughout Peru, Uruguay, Argentina, Spain, and Cuba. She is co-founder and artistic director of the Animalien production company. As an actress in film I have participated in: -Feature film Proof of Life (2000). Director Taylor Hackford. London, UK. Quito, Ecuador. -Feature film Bala Perdida (2001). Director Aldo Salvini. Lima, Peru -Feature film El Bien squiffy (2001). Director Augusto Tamayo. Lima, Peru. -Feature film El Secreto Del hero (2003). Director Leo Vega. Madrid, Spain. -Short film El Último alchemist (2007). Director Nicolás Caicoya. Madrid, Spain. -Feature film La Vergüenza (2009). Director David Planell. Madrid, Spain. -Feature film Altiplano (2009). Directors Peter & Jessica Brossens. German-Belgian-Peruvian co-production. Arequipa, Peru. -Short film Lunch Secrets (2009). Director Moreno Del Valle. Lima, Peru -Short film Intensive Care. (2011). Director Brian Jacobs. Lima, Peru. -Short film The Tree. (2011). Director Moreno Del Valle. Lima, Peru. -Feature film Lima 13 (2012). Director Fabrizio Aguilar. Lima, Peru. -Feature film The Gospel of the Flesh (2013). Director Eduardo Mendoza. Lima, Peru. -Feature film Rocanrol 68 (2013). Director Gonzalo Benavente. Lima, Peru. -Feature film Encadenados (2015). Director Miguel Barreda. Arequipa, Peru. -Feature film WIK (2017). Director Moreno Del Valle. Lima, Peru. -Feature film Av. Larco (2017) Director Jorge Carmona. Lima, Peru. -Short film The Revelation (2018) Director Jason Day. Lima, Peru. -Feature film The House of the Snail (2020) Director Macarena Astorga, Malaga, Spain. -Feature film Soltera Codiciada 2 (2022) Director Joanna Lombardi. Lima and Arequipa, Peru. As a director: -Short film Varado, (2020) experimental project winner of the Incentives for the creation of FaeLima, 2020. As an actress on television: -Teleseries Géminis Venganza DE amour (2002) RTVE. Madrid, Spain. -Teleseries Hospital Central. Episodic. (2002) Telecinco. Madrid, Spain. -Teleseries Cuéntame. Episodic. (2004) R-TVE. Madrid, Spain. -Series This Society I and II. (2006-2008) Flashback Productions. Lima, Peru. -Telenovela La Lola (2011) Imizu Productions. Lima, Peru. -Telenovela La Tayson, Corazón reveled. (2012). Imizu Productions. Lima, Peru. -Teleseries La Esclava Blanca (2016) Caracol TV. Bogotá, Colombia. -Teleseries Princesas (2020) Protv Lima, Peru. -From 2012 to 2023, presenter of the history documentary program Sucedió en el Perú, broadcast by TVPerú, the Enviar commentary's

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