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Flora Martínez

Flora Martínez

Birth : 1977-07-01, Montréal, Québec, Canada

History

Daughter of a Canadian mother (Melinda Prowse) and a Colombian father (Hernando Martínez). Flora herself speaks Spanish, English and French. She studied acting at the Actors Conservatory in New York, as well as at the Alfonso Ortiz School and at Actuemos, in Colombia. Since her first appearance on Colombian TV at the age of 15, Flora has been a benchmark in Colombia. Her leap to the international market occurred after starring in the film Rosario Tijeras. In 2008 she starred in the Caracol TV Vecinos telenovela, alongside Robinson Díaz. Her two great passions are Theater and Music, although she has also shown great talent for dance, especially salsa. In 2006 he traveled to Spain for the nomination of Rosario Tijeras to the Goya Awards and there he met the love of his life, José Reinoso, Uruguayan jazz pianist and producer with whom he formalized marriage in Barcelona in 2008. Both lived until 2012 in Spain with her three children (Malena and Borja from José's previous marriage, but raised by Flora) and Sofía, the couple's youngest daughter. Since 2013, the five interspersed residency between Uruguay and Colombia

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Flora Martínez

Movies

Itzia Tango y Cacao

Itzia Tango y Cacao

Itzia

Itzia Tango y Cacao

Itzia Tango y Cacao

Director

Breve storia di lunghi tradimenti

Breve storia di lunghi tradimenti

Mabel

In the 21th century getting hold of natural resources of emerging countries, is no matter of war--it is a matter of complex financial actions. And the power of governments behind the events has been replaced by the power of holding companies. Nowadays you don't conquer a country. You buy it. "Short story of long betrayals" is again set in the Republic of Queimada, where in the "Salar de Queimada" (a salt lake) lies 50% of lithium in the whole world. Not surprisingly, there is an international interest in its fate and a breathless fight to seize it.

María

Bar worker Diana Diaz leaves Madrid for Miami and with new boyfriend, Robert (Luis Hacha), they then head for Hollywood, prepared to do anything for fame.

The Art of Stealing

The Art of Stealing

Lola

Two amateur thieves are hired to steal an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting from the abandoned farm of an Argentinian countess.

Milena

The plot follows the story of twin brothers, one is a coldhearted violent police officer, the other is a helpless romantic with a mental disability. The two brothers are tragically involved with a prostitute who works in the bordello that gives the film its title. The film was adapted from an eponymous novel written by Juan Marsé.

Lola and Alfredo survive on the fringes of crime. Their business comes to an abrupt end when Alfredo is arrested. Lola gets the chance of working in a jazz club where the couple meet some very different characters, who open up new worlds and possibilities, but, along with this, the opportunity to change and choose.

Violeta de mil colores

Violeta de mil colores

Violet

Surrounded by candles and immersed in petals, a woman tired of a life without purpose carefully prepares her death scene in the bathtub, turning it into a ritual. Every drop of blood in her veins mixes with the warm water as she remembers small fragments of her life.

Rosario Tijeras

Rosario Tijeras

Rosario Tijeras

Rosario Tijeras has been abused by men all her life, initially by her stepfather. Years later, she works as a paid assassin, seducing men and killing them when they least expect it. She meets Emilio, a wealthy womanizer, and his best friend, Antonio, at a nightclub, and starts an affair with Emilio despite Antonio's growing feelings for her. But circumstances bring her closer to Antonio, until her past catches up with her in a devastating way.

Downtown: A Street Tale

Downtown: A Street Tale

Maria

A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters, turning tricks and squatting in abandoned buildings.

Melissa

It's an hour before Lucy's wedding and her best friend wants to hear all about what led up to that moment. So, Lucy tells about the five men she had blind dates with over the past year (Doug, Gabriel, Bobby, Barry, and Luke) and her experiences with each one. But which one of the five men is Lucy about to walk down the aisle with?

Linda

Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.

Golondrina / Pilar, the dead woman

It begins with the tragedy of Armero, during the course investigates the murder of a beautiful woman and on his way some people die in the end a killing and a cemetery. Emerson Roque Fierro, former policeman and private investigator shadowing, investigates the murder of "Golondrina", a beautiful young woman, occurred in a seedy hotel in downtown Bogota. Without knowing who it is, begins to understand their relationships with a motley gallery of men: a corrupt politician, connected to drug trafficking and paramilitary groups, a bullfighter cunning and good for nothing, a boxer fallen on hard times with a force so stupid as rare Lotero intellect and an insightful blind. And in the midst of this, the dark threads entangling power to everyone, and especially the poor Fierro.

A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas?