Marina de Tavira

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is de Tavira and the second or maternal family name is Servitje.
Marina de Tavira
de Tavira in 2018
Born
Marina de Tavira Servitje

(1973-11-21) 21 November 1973 (age 51)
Mexico City, Mexico
OccupationActress
Years active1998–present
Children1
RelativesJosé María de Tavira (cousin)
Lorenzo Servitje (grandfather)
Rosa María Bianchi (aunt)

Marina de Tavira Servitje (born 21 November 1973) is a Mexican actress. She is internationally known for her role in the film Roma (2018), which received widespread acclaim and earned her an Academy Award nomination.[1]

Life and career

She studied acting at the Casa del Teatro, the Nucleus of Theater Studies, and the San Cayetano Theater Training Center. Her first job after graduating was acting in the play Feliz nuevo siglo doktor Freud (Happy New Century, Doktor Freud) by Sabina Berman.[2] Marina de Tavira's father, a high official in the Mexican criminal justice system, was murdered in 2000, a day before her acting debut in Berman's play.[3] Luis Rosales, a casting director at Netflix, was at this debut and later asked her to participate in Alfonso Cuarón's film Roma.[3]

She is part of the Casa del Teatro teachers college. She is a member and founder, along with Enrique Singer, of the Incidente Teatro production company with which they have premiered Betrayal by Harold Pinter, Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley, La mujer justa by Hugo Urquijo (based on the novel by Sándor Márai), and The Anarchist by David Mamet.

She has participated in more than 25 productions such as Seven Doors.

In 2019, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the character Sofía in Roma, alongside Amy Adams, Regina King, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz in the same category. After this nomination, she returned to the theater in the play Skylight, at her alma mater, the Casa del Teatro in Mexico City.[4]

Personal life

Her grandfather Lorenzo Servitje is the founder of Grupo Bimbo, and her uncle Daniel Servitje is the current CEO.

Tavira's maternal history is linked to Juan Servitje Torrallardona, a Catalan who came to Mexico in 1904. He would open the El Molino pastry shop, which would remain in the hands of his son Lorenzo. Juan had seven children. One of them, María Lucila Isabel Servitje Montull, served as a teacher in theology and director of the Mexican Institute of Christian Social Doctrine. María married Tavira, with whom she had three children, including Marina.

Marina de Tavira's father, Juan Pablo de Tavira Noriega, was a prominent Mexican criminologist, a lawyer, and the first director of Mexico's Altiplano Prison, overseeing such high-security prison inmates as Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Rafael Caro Quintero, Mario Aburto Martínez and Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo. After multiple death threats, Juan Pablo was murdered under mysterious circumstances in November 2000.[3]

Marina de Tavira is the niece of the theater director Luis de Tavira and the actress Rosa María Bianchi; she is the cousin of Pedro de Tavira Egurrola and José María de Tavira.[5]

From 2012 to 2019, she had a relationship with Mexican actor Rafael Sánchez Navarro.[6] From 2019 to 2021, she had a relationship with Mexican actor Diego Luna.

De Tavira has maintained a private personal life; she has one child.[3]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1999 Viajando sobre los durmientes Marina Short film
2005 A Good Death Beats a Dull Life (Hijas de su madre: Las Buenrostro) Tere
2006 Un mundo maravilloso Sick Woman
2006 Muerte anunciada Short film
2006 Side Effects (Efectos secundarios) Marina
2007 The Zone (La zona) Andrea
2008 Love, Pain and Vice Versa (Violanchelo) Marcela Padilla
2008 Road to Fame (Casi divas) Model
2008 El comienzo del fin Ella Short film
2008 Nora's Will (Cinco días sin Nora) Young Nora Kurtz
2010 Desafío Julieta
2011 Viento en contra Lizeta
2015 Los árboles mueren de pie Helena
2015 Azul maduro Lorena Grande Short film
2017 Ana and Bruno (Ana y Bruno) Carmen Voice role
2017 How to Break Up with Your Douchebag (Cómo cortar a tu patán) Mamá Amanda
2018 Cómplices Teresa
2018 Roma Sra. Sofía Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Platino Award for Best Actress
2018 Niebla de Culpa Amanda
2019 This Is Not Berlin (Esto no es Berlín) Carolina
2021 Reminiscence Tamara “Swati” Sylvan

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards
Year Category Work Result Ref.
2019 Best Supporting Actress Roma Nominated [7]
Premios Platino
Year Category Work Result Ref.
2019 Best female role Roma Nominated [8]
Ariel Awards
year Category Work Result Ref.
2019 Best Supporting Actress Roma Won [9]

References

  1. ^ "Roma stars Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira score Oscar nominations". ¡Hola!. 22 January 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Biografia de MARINA TAVIRA". Magazin Infonota (in European Spanish). 27 June 2009. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d Staff, Forbes (23 February 2019). "La poderosa familia detrás de Marina de Tavira • Actualidad • Forbes México". Forbes México (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  4. ^ México, Adolfo López | El sol de. "Después del Oscar, Marina de Tavira regresa al teatro". El Sol de México | Noticias, Deportes, Gossip, Columnas. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Este es el árbol genealógico de Marina de Tavira Servitje". Clase (in Spanish). 23 February 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  6. ^ "Nuevo clan De Tavira, a continuar con el legado". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  7. ^ Belinchón, Gregorio (24 February 2019). "'Roma' logra 10 nominaciones a los Oscar 2019". El País – via elpais.com.
  8. ^ "Alfonso Cuaron's 'Roma' Nabs Nine Nominations for 6th Premios Platino". Variety. 21 March 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  9. ^ de 2019, 23 de Abril (23 April 2019). "Lista completa de los nominados a los Premios Ariel 2019". infobae.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)