Cristina Rota

María Cristina Rota Fernández (born 1945) is an Argentine-born playwright, actress, director and popular acting coach settled in Spain.[1]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rota and the second or maternal family name is Fernández.

Biography

Cristina Rota was born in 1945 in La Plata, Argentina.[2] She has ancestors from the Canary Islands and Navarre.[3] She studied Philosophy and Arts, after which she trained her acting chops, and—already in Argentina—began to primarily focus on drama coaching.[4] With actor Diego Fernando Botto (kidnapped and assassinated during the Videla dictatorship) she had María and Juan Diego.[4] She left Argentina for Spain in 1978 with her children,[3] while she was pregnant of a third child, Nur Al Levi, from another partner.[4] In addition to her three children, all thespians, many famous Spanish actors have trained in her school, including Penélope Cruz, Antonio de la Torre, Marta Etura and Raúl Arévalo.[1][5]

Filmography
  • Colores, 2003
  • Party Line, 1994
  • En penumbra, 1987
  • Virtudes Bastián, 1986
  • La reina del mate, 1985

As a producer
  • Los abajo firmantes, 2003

References
  1. Fernández, Saúl (12 December 2015). "Cristina Rota: "Hay que procurar no distanciar al actor del público"". La Nueva España.
  2. "Cristina Rota: "Todo debería ser leído desde un punto de vista feminista"". El País. 21 November 2018.
  3. Fraguas, Toño. "Cristina Rota: la reinvención de una vida". Desalambre – via eldiario.es.
  4. Hernández, Nuria (21 January 2021). "El lado personal de Juan Diego Botto: la ausencia de su padre, una película que marcó una generación y el gran amor de su vida". Vanity Fair.
  5. "Clara Chaín, la novia de Adrián Lastra: de Jaca a Miami, pasando por la escuela de Cristina Rota". Yahoo.com. 22 February 2020.
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