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Paula Ali

Paula Ali

Acting

Biography

Se vinculó al mundo del espectáculo en 1959 en Cuba, cuando comenzó a trabajar como modelo en la televisión. En 1965, pasó al Teatro Martí, lugar emblemático en la cultura cubana por el teatro vernáculo que allí se hacía con famosos actores del género bufo.  En 1970, se integró al grupo Teatro Estudio, uno de los más prestigiosos de Cuba, donde ha permanecido hasta la actualidad. Durante los dos últimos años ha colaborado también con el grupo El Público: su protagónico en la obra La Celestina, con dirección de Carlos Díaz, ha sido un gran éxito.  En su larga carrera teatral ha interpretado importantes personajes en obras clásicas del teatro cubano y universal. Paralelamente ha actuado en 6 telenovelas, además de haber participado en múltiples teleplays, teatros en T.V. y otros seriados, como el popular programa humorístico Punto G.  Ha realizados giras por Portugal, Yugoslavia, España, Ecuador, Venezuela y Colombia.

Known For

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4.7

Gonzalo's life has been marked by the story of his mother, a Mambisa heroine of the war of 1895. After her death, he is sent to Spain. In 1931, he returns to Cuba to reclaim the family possessions and discovers the value of love and death, truth and lies, pain and hatred.

The Lost Eden

2007
Viva
7.3

When his estranged father returns, a hairdresser is forced to quit performing at the local drag club.

Viva

2015
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EL AÑO QUE VIENE

1994
Neurótica Anónima
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The story of Iluminada, a woman who, having studied to be a literature teacher, ends up working as an usher in an iconic cinema in Havana.

Neurótica Anónima

2025
Love by Mistake
5.2

Julio del Toro is a successful writer in his fifties, who has always had his life under his control, until the day that, returning from one of his frequent foreign travel, this consistent world will fall into crisis. His daughter has started an affair with a Spanish older than him, his mistress poses a serious ultimatum, a young journalist begins to prepare a report on his work, and he faces the question if he is already finished as a creator. While Julio feels increasingly confused and disoriented, the women around him will make the decisions that he is not able to take.

Love by Mistake

2004
Horn of Plenty
5.0

An unclaimed fortune, grown for centuries in a British bank account, becomes a potential windfall for Bernadito Castiñeiras and the residents of the tiny village of Yaragüey, Cuba. To receive his massive inheritance check, Bernadito must prove his lineage to the Castiñeiras nuns who first populated the region. In an isolated and impoverished town where many residents share the same surname, a feud breaks out between the "Castiñeiras" and "Castiñeyras" families.

Horn of Plenty

2008
Nada+
6.6

Carla, a young postal worker in Havana, spends her days postmarking thousands of letters and dreaming of the day when she can be reunited with her parents, who moved to Miami when she was fifteen. To fulfill her longing for intimacy, she opens random letters and rewrites them into lyrical prose, believing she is helping her fellow Cubans understand one another better. Beautifully filmed in black and white accented by brilliant colours, Nada+ has a stunning visual composition. With its delightful mix of visual humour, theatrical characters, satire and a lighthearted love story, it has a distinctly Cuban flair.

Nada+

2001
¿Por qué lloran mis amigas?
8.5

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¿Por qué lloran mis amigas?

2017
Where Darkness Breathes
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A Latin American horror anthology where filmmakers from conjure shadows rooted in their land, their ghosts, and their history.

Where Darkness Breathes

2026
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Iluminada lives a poor life but her luck turns around when she wins a prize from a Rina brand soap.

El premio flaco

2009
Honey for Oshun
7.3

When his father dies, a Cuban man who was raised in the United States, learns that he was not abandoned by his mother but illegally taken out of Cuba. He goes back to the island and is helped in his search by a cousin and a taxi driver.

Honey for Oshun

2003
Vertical Love
7.4

The architecture student Estela (Silvia Aguila) makes a suicide attempt after her plans for solving Havana's housing shortage are rejected. This brings her into contact with earthy, cynical hospital nurse Ernesto (Jorge Perugorria). Estela invites him home for dinner, and he succeeds in offending everyone present. Unable to find a quiet spot to be alone, they finally find a squatters' tenement, where their sexual frenzy causes a ceiling to collapse. They next try vertical love in a stalled elevator, trapping people in the modern building minus stairs. Fleeing responsibilities, they stage a romantic rendezvous alongside a country river, but once again they are interrupted as Cuban commissars arrive with papers and forms because the couple constructs a hut beneath a bridge. Amid the misadventures, lust turns to love

Vertical Love

1997
Supporting Roles
6.8

A prestigious theater group in crisis prepares for the staging of a famous love tragedy. Mirtha, an actress marked by frustration, decides to leave the theater when a guest conductor offered a starring role. The incorporation of young actors, unscrupulous, and an inspector trigger a series of situations that will endanger the reputation and power of the actress who heads the group.

Supporting Roles

1989
Lisanka
5.0

Revolves around a love triangle that later evolves into a love square involving three Cubans and a Soviet soldier. Set in a fictitious rural village near a Soviet military base in central Cuba, their amorous adventures, or misadventures, unravel against the backdrop of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

Lisanka

2010
Mila Caos
4.0

Every weekend at an illegal drag show in the suburbs of Havana, Sebastián, a 17-year-old Cuban teenager, transforms into 'Mila Caos', his empowered, flamboyant alter-ego. When he returns to his daytime self, Sebastián suffers from his mother's indifference, dreaming that one day she will see him on stage for who he truly is.

Mila Caos

2011
Nelsito's World
8.5

A car accident. The victim is Nelsito, a 16-year-old autistic teenager, who has runaway from home. From his stretchter and through his imaginary pen, Nelsito reveals the dark and hidden side of all those around him: perverse children, murderous women, adorable swindling girls... Until he recovers...

Nelsito's World

2023
Oscuros rinocerontes enjaulados... muy a la moda
1.0

In a Havana public office, the charwoman discovers the sexual activities among the workers.

Oscuros rinocerontes enjaulados... muy a la moda

1990
Che
8.0

Biopic about revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara.

Che

1997
Sangre
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Sangre

2018
The House of Bernalda Alba
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Located in deep Spain at the beginning of the 20th century, the work reveals a traditional society where violence and oppression against women is exercised even by women themselves in a mimetic replica of the model imposed by patriarchal society. The presentation goes from contemporaneity to the time with the character of Bernarda and returns to the contemporaneity with that of Adela, emphasizing what we must leave in the past and the freedom that we defend for our present.

The House of Bernalda Alba