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Leonor Watling

Spanish actress and singer

Leonor Watling

Summary

Spanish actress and singer

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captionWatling in 2024
birth_nameLeonor Elizabeth Ceballos Watling
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birth_placeMadrid, Spain
years_active1993–present
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instrumentVocals
genreJazz, blues, rock
current_member_ofMarlango

Leonor Elizabeth Ceballos Watling (born 28 July 1975) is a Spanish film actress and singer.

Early life

Leonor Watling was born on 28 July 1975 in Madrid, to a Spanish father from Cádiz and an English mother, the youngest of four siblings (two brothers and two sisters). Her first vocation was that of dancer, but a knee injury made this impossible.

Career

Watling performing with Marlango in 2008

Watling began her acting career in theatre. She earned her feature film debut with a performance in Pablo Llorca's Jardines colgantes (1993). After that she participated in several TV series, such as Hermanos de leche, Farmacia de guardia or Querido maestro, but her most successful role was in the series Raquel busca su sitio with Cayetana Guillén Cuervo. In 1998, she was nominated for a Goya award for her role in La hora de los valientes, and was named as one of European film's 'Shooting Stars' by European Film Promotion in 1999. In 2002, she was nominated again for a Goya for her role in My Mother Likes Women.

Watling dubbed Anne Hathaway as the voice of "Red Pucket" (Little Red Riding Hood) in Hoodwinked (2005). She also took part in The Oxford Murders, alongside Elijah Wood and John Hurt.

In 2006, Watling starred in the Paris, Je T'aime segment "Bastille" as Marie Christine. The anthology film was directed by many famous directors who each had to produce a five-minute film set in Paris, the city of love. Spanish writer-director Isabel Coixet wrote and directed the segment "Bastille", and Watling starred alongside Sergio Castellitto and Miranda Richardson as Sergio's younger lover, with whom he plans to run away after ending his relationship with his wife Miranda.

She combines film performances with her work with the band Marlango, in which she is the vocalist and sings mostly in English.

She appeared in the TV series Pulsaciones.

Personal life

Watling and [[Jorge Drexler]] at the [[32nd Goya Awards]] in 2018

Watling is in a relationship with the Uruguayan musician Jorge Drexler, with whom she has a son, Luca, born in January 2009, and a daughter, Lea, born in July 2011.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
1993Jardines colgantes (Hanging Gardens)
1997**Beatriz
1998Grandes ocasiones (Great Occasions)Bárbara
1998La primera noche de mi vida (The First Night of My Life)Paloma
1998La hora de los valientes (A Time for Defiance)Carmen
1999No respires (el amor está en el aire) (Do Not Breathe, Love is in the Air)Muriel
2000* (God's Back*)
2002Son de mar (Sound of the Sea)Martina
2002A mi madre le gustan las mujeres (My Mother Likes Women)Elvira
2002Hable con ella (Talk to Her)Alicia Roncero
2002Deseo (Desire)Elvira
2002My Life Without MeThe other Ann
2003En la ciudad (In the City)Cristina
2003El elefante del rey (The Elephant King)
2003**Carmen
2004La mala educación (Bad Education)Mónica
2004Crónicas (Chronicles)
2004Inconscientes (Unconscious)Alma
2005The Secret Life of Words
2005Malas temporadas (Hard Times)Laura
2005Tirante el Blanco (White Tie)
2006Paris, je t'aime
2006Salvador (Puig Antich) (Salvador)Cuca
2006* (Carnival of Sodom*)
2007Teresa, el cuerpo de Cristo (Theresa: The Body of Christ)Doña Guiomar de Ulloa
2008The Oxford MurdersLorna
2009Unmade Beds
2010* (Magic Journey to Africa*)Hada ('fairy')
2010Lope (Lope: The Outlaw)Isabel
2011Lo mejor de Eva (Dark Impulse)Eva
2012If I Were YouLucy
2013**
2016Risen
2017Muse
The Solar System (El sistema solar)Inés
2022No mires a los ojos (Staring at Strangers)Lucía
Chinas (Chinas, a Second Generation Story)Sol
Anatema (Anathema)Sor Juana

Television

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
1997–98**Silvia
2000Raquel busca su sitioRaquelLeading role
2006* (The Child's Room*)SoniaTV movie
2017PulsacionesBlanca Jiménez
2018Asesinato en la UniversidadLara CabanesTV movie
2018–20Vivir sin permiso (Unauthorized Living)Berta Moliner
2020–NasdroviaEdurneLeading role
2021La templanza (The Vineyard)Soledad MontalvoLeading role. Younger version of the character performed by Carla Campra
2021Besos al aire (Blowing Kisses)Doctora CabanasLeading role. Two-part television miniseries
2022No me gusta conducir (I Don't Like Driving)Iria
2024Citas BarcelonaJoana
La vida breveIsabel de Farnesio
Carla

;Other

  • "Somos Anormales", music video by Residente (2017)

Discography

With Marlango

  • Marlango (2004)
  • Automatic Imperfection (2005)
  • The Electrical Morning (2007)
  • Life in the Treehouse (2010)
  • Un Día Extraordinario (2012)
  • El Porvenir (2014)
  • Technicolor (2018)

Collaborations

  • Miguel Bosé – Duet in "Este mundo va" from the album Papito
  • Jorge Drexler – Backing vocals in "El otro engranaje" from the album 12 segundos de oscuridad
  • – Backing vocals in "La vida mata" from the album Los abismos cotidianos
  • Fito Páez – Duet in "Pétalo de sal" and "Creo" from the album No sé si es Baires o Madrid
  • Jorge Drexler – Duet in "Toque de queda" from the album Amar la trama

Accolades

YearAwardCategoryWorkResultRef.
199913th Goya AwardsBest Leading ActressA Time for Defiance
200317th Goya AwardsBest Leading ActressMy Mother Likes Women
53rd Fotogramas de PlataBest Actress (film)
12th Actors and Actresses Union AwardsBest Film Actress in a Leading Role
200459th CEC MedalsBest Supporting ActressMy Life Without Me
13th Actors and Actresses Union AwardsBest Actress in a Minor Role (film)
202024th Actors and Actresses Union AwardsBest Television Actress in a Minor RoleUnauthorized Living
2023Best Supporting Actress in a TV SeriesI Don't Like Driving
Best Supporting Actress in a SeriesLa vida breve

References

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