Laura Bayonas

Birth : 1965-01-01, Madrid, Spain

History

Laura Bayonas started working in movies at the age of 4, and when 7 years old, she played her first lead in the short "Correo de guerra" (1972) together with her mother — Lola Salvador, a well known scriptwriter and film producer. Since then she has accomplished a strong career in Europe, having lead roles in film and TV with well known Spanish directors, like Jose Luis Bunuel, Jaime Chavarri, Julio Medem, Alfonso Ungria, Fernando Fernan Gomez, Jose Luis Cuerda, Manolo Matji, Jose Luis Berlanga and others. As a writer, Laura published her novel "Yes Father, no Father", a radical critic against parental education, which was a best seller in the 90's. She received an award for her first screenplay "Panfilas" by ICAA, Ministerio De Cultura of Spain. After moving from Spain, Bayonas is living in Los Angeles, California. Her most recent Hollywood-work is in "CharlottaTS" (2011, Lewis Teague).

Profile

Movies

Dos corazones

Script

Ferdinand

Additional Voices (voice)

Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow, but one day five men come to choose the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid and Ferdinand is mistakenly chosen. Based on the classic 1936 children's book by Munro Leaf.

The Secret of Joy

Peasant Woman

A girl's dream in King Arthur's world, a land populated by valiant knights, beautiful fairies, little elves and monsters to be defeated. A world of beauty only a child can imagine; a tale that enchants the viewers.

Marlene

Lupe Velez (uncredited)

Marlene is a 2000 German biopic film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier and starring Katja Flint, Hans Werner Meyer and Herbert Knaup. It follows the life of the German actress Marlene Dietrich and her success in Hollywood.

Puede ser divertido

Tretas de mujer

Diana del Sol

Tierno verano de lujurias y azoteas

Laura

A youngster recently arrived to Spain from Russia falls in love with his own cousin who is an astonishingly beautiful actress and, besides, much older than him.

The Sea and the Weather

Jesus returns to Spain after a long exile in Argentina. The family he meets is very different from the one he left: they live under the sadness of being the losers of the war, Marcela, before a beautiful young woman, is now an alcoholic, and the youngest can not even understand them. Jesus wants to start a new life in Spain but he feels out of place; Time has turned him into an inhabitant of the other side of the 'puddle'.

Martín

The young Martín reluctantly spends the hot summer in Madrid with his parents, porters for a farm in the center of the city where they live. One day Julia arrives, an actress who comes to spend a few days in the vacated apartment of a friend

Love Ravings

(uncredited)

In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to extremes, and an antiquarian falls for a young man.

Lulú de noche

Laura

German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While looking for the protagonist, Rufo appears, an introvert jazz musician. He could play Jack the ripper.

Las aventuras de Enrique y Ana

Reportera

Enrique is a gym teacher who along with his sister want to start a musical career with the support of their grandfather, a great scientist who wants to stop an evil despot from getting an artifact that would endanger the entire world.

Correo de guerra

Nina

Short Spanish film from 1972.

Man in Hiding

Niña (uncredited)

Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalist forces.