Abril Zamora

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Zamora and the second or maternal family name is Peláez.
Abril Zamora Peláez
Abril Zamora in 2022
Born (1981-11-11) 11 November 1981 (age 42)[1]
Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
OccupationActress
Years active2004–present

Abril Zamora Peláez[2] (born 11 November 1981) is a Spanish actress, screenwriter, and director with a long career in film, television, and theater. She rose to prominence as Luna in the FOX Spain television series Vis a Vis, which gave visibility to the LGBT+ reality through fiction.

Biography[edit]

Abril Zamora Peláez was born in Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona on 11 November 1981. She made her gender transition visible through her personal social networks, and since then she has demanded both greater diversity in characters and more opportunities for the transgender community in the audiovisual media. However, for her, it is also important to speak openly about her past, of which she is also proud. In 2018, she participated in the documentary directed by Fernando González Molina The Best Day of My Life, which shows six LGBT people who gather in Madrid for the celebration of International LGBT Pride Day and who dare to live as they are with pride, joy, and commitment.[3] She also stated that she always knew she was a girl but did not identify with the trans label because gender does not really define her.[4]

Career path[edit]

She started acting when she was a teenager, playing King Arthur in a school play, Merlín el encantador.[5] Together with Sergio Caballero, she set up the theater company Oscura Teatre, with which she made the plays El congelador (2008), La indiferencia de los armadillos (2009), and Todas muertas (2010), all three with text by Zamora.[6] In 2014, she premiered the play Yernos que aman, a tragicomic choral story that she performed for four seasons at La Pensión de Las Pulgas in Madrid, directed by herself and in which she played one of the characters.[7] In acting, she has played small roles in the television series Los Serrano (2007), Los hombres de Paco (2008), Hospital central (2009), La que se avecina (2014) and Anclados (2015). In addition to starring in the film Marica tú directed by Ismael Núñez and broadcast on Flooxer.[8]

In April 2017, she began her transition, and it was then when she was offered a small role in the series Vis a vis, playing a girl with drug problems in a sequence; but on the test, she liked the team, and that nameless character grew and became Luna during the third and fourth seasons of the series.[9] With this role, she gained more popularity and got a nomination for Best Newcomer Actress at the Actors and Actresses Union Awards.[10]

In 2019, she created a series for Telecinco called Señoras del (h)AMPA, for which she was also director and screenwriter during its two seasons and which revolves around a group of mothers of an AMPA who kill a person by mistake.[11] The same year, she joined the screenwriting team of the Netflix series Élite. She also participated in the film ¿A quién te llevarías a una isla desierta? by Jota Linares and, a year later, in the Italian film The Life Ahead, where she shared the screen with Sophia Loren.[12] She also had a supporting role in the Netflix original series El desorden que dejas, where she played Tere, the best friend of Inma Cuesta's character.[13] Her next project was as creator, director, and actress in the HBO Max series Todo lo otro, which premiered in October 2021 and tells the story of a group of friends in their thirties and the various issues that affect them.[14]

Filmography[edit]

As director and screenwriter[edit]

Year Series Channel Role
2016 Temporada baja Flooxer Directora y guionista
2018 - 2021 Señoras del (h)AMPA Telecinco Creadora, directora y guionista
2019 Élite Netflix Guionista de la segunda temporada (2 episodes)
2019 - 2021 Indetectables Flooxer Directora y guionista (2 episodes)
2021 Todo lo otro HBO Max Creadora, directora y guionista

As an actress[edit]

Cinema[edit]

Year Film Character Directed by
2006 El perfume: Historia de un asesino Chico Tom Tykwer
Todo mal Tommy Francesc Giró
2009 Tres días con la familia Pere Jr. Mar Coll
2013 Caídos Nacho Jaime Herrero
2016 Marica tú Julián Ismael Núñez
2019 ¿A quién te llevarías a una isla desierta? Abril Jota Linares
2020 The Life Ahead Lola Edoardo Ponti

Television[edit]

Year Series Channel Character Episodes
2007 R.I.S. Científica Telecinco Extra 1 episode
Los Serrano Extra
2008 Impares Antena 3 Javier Romano 2 episodes
Los hombres de Paco Announcement Ruler 1 episode
2009 Hospital central Telecinco Vicente
2014 La que se avecina Telecinco Hotel receptionist
2015 Anclados Extra
2016 Temporada baja Flooxer Juan
2017 Indetectables Guillermo
2018 Paquita Salas Netflix Camarera
2018 - 2019 Vis a vis FOX España Luna Garrido 15 episodes
2020 El desorden que dejas Netflix Tere 6 episodes
2021 Señoras del (h)AMPA Amazon Prime Video Prostitute in prison 1 episode
Todo lo otro HBO España Dafne 8 episodes

Awards and nominations[edit]

Year Category Award Title Result
2009 Best Newcomer Actress Professional Actors Union of Valencia La indiferencia de los armadillos Nominated
2010 Best Supporting Actress XIX Premis de Teatres de la Generalitat Valenciana La indiferencia de los armadillos Won
Best Leading Actress XIX Premis de Teatres de la Generalitat Valenciana El congelador Nominated
Best Actress 15ª Mostra de Teatre de Barcelona La indiferencia de los armadillos Won
2011 Best Actress V Cortocomenius Festival Nube de colores Won
2019 Best new actress XXVIII Actors and Actresses Union Awards Vis a vis Nominated
2021 Best Supporting Actress CinEuphoria Awards The Life Ahead Nominated
Best cast of a film Nominated
2021 Best state actress Santurtzi Festival Polvorón Won

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Abril Zamora". FórmulaTV (in Spanish).
  2. ^ "Abril Zamora: "No voy rechazar que antes fui Abel"". ShangayV (in Spanish). 15 January 2019.
  3. ^ "The Best Day of my Life - El orgullo de ser uno mismo". Metal Magazine (in Spanish).
  4. ^ "La actriz Abril Zamora inicia el proceso de reasignación de género: "Yo era Abel y ahora soy Abril"" (in Spanish). Formula TV. 3 July 2017.
  5. ^ "Entrevista a Abel Zamora". El Teatrero (in Spanish). 21 October 2015.
  6. ^ "Sergio Caballero y Abel Zamora". El País (in Spanish). 15 January 2012.
  7. ^ "Abel Zamora, habla de Yernos que Aman". Revista Tarántula (in Spanish). 12 July 2014.
  8. ^ "Marica tú, 2017". Cine gay online (in Spanish).
  9. ^ "Abril Zamora, la presa transexual de 'Vis a vis', habla de su pasado". Ecoteuve (in Spanish). 15 January 2018.
  10. ^ Gosálvez, Patricia (19 June 2019). "Abril Zamora: "Soy actriz, guionista, alta, nerviosa… y también 'trans"". El País (in Spanish).
  11. ^ "Abril Zamora y su sorprendente cameo en el final de 'Señoras del (h)AMPA'". Formula TV (in Spanish). 12 April 2021.
  12. ^ "Abril Zamora: "Me dijo Sophia Loren que con mi talento y mis piernas llegaré donde quiera"" (in Spanish). OndaCero. 12 November 2020.
  13. ^ ""El desorden que dejas", Tere: Abril Zamora, la actriz transexual de la serie de Netflix". El Comercio (in Spanish). 26 December 2020.
  14. ^ "HBO Max presume de 'Todo lo otro', 'Venga Juan', 'Sin novedad' y 'García', sus próximos estrenos de ficción española". Vertele (in Spanish). 19 September 2021.
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