Leticia Dolera (born 23 October 1981) is a Spanish actress, screenwriter, and director. She is best known[citation needed] for her roles as Clara in the 2013 horror film REC 3: Genesis, Teresa in Imagining Argentina (2003), and as Carmen in the UK television series Mad Dogs.

Leticia Dolera
Dolera at the Gaudí Awards 2021
Born (1981-10-23) 23 October 1981 (age 43)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Occupations
Years active2001–present

Early life

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Leticia Dolera was born in Barcelona on 23 October 1981 to a single mother.[1]

Career

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Her career began with the series Al salir de clase (When Class Is Over),[2] in which she played the role of Angela between 2000 and 2002. Likewise, she made her feature film debut as an actress in Bellas durmientes (2001).[3]

From there, she began a film career with titles such as The Other Side of the Bed,[2] Imagining Argentina, Semen, A Love Story[2] and Man Push Cart, a film which received three nominations at the Independent Spirit Awards.

In 2012, she starred in the third instalment of the REC series, receiving critical praise for her performance.

In the UK, she is best known for playing the character of Carmen in the Sky TV series, Mad Dogs (2012 to 2014).

In 2015 she wrote and directed the film Requirements To Be A Normal Person.[4]

In February 2018 she published the book about feminism Morder la manzana. La revolución será feminista o no será.[5] She was asked to open the La Mercè festival in Barcelona in 2018. She shared her time with Carmen Juares, a migrant from Honduras, who had spent six years in Spain as a caregiver.[6] Juares was caring for a woman with dementia in conditions that she regarded as slavery.[7]

In October 2019 premiered in Movistar+ the television series Vida perfecta, directed by and starring her, with good acceptance by critics.[8] Public scrutiny and controversy around the production of the series (then tentatively titled Déjate llevar) began in 2018, when actress Aina Clotet denounced on Twitter that Dolera had decided not to hire her for the series because Clotet was pregnant.[9]

Personal life

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In 2008, Dolera married director Paco Plaza,[10] from whom she is separated.[11]

Filmography

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Films

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2001
Bellas durmientes [gl] Feature film debut
2002
El otro lado de la cama (The Other Side of the Bed)
2003
Besos de gato Carlota
The Emperor's Wife [pt]
Imagining Argentina Teresa
2005
Semen, una historia de amor (Semen, A Love Story) Ariadna / Penélope
Man Push Cart Noemi
2008
Prime Time Elena
2009
Imago Mortis Leilou
2011
De tu ventana a la mía (Chrysalis) Violeta
2012
[REC 3]: Génesis Clara
2013
Los últimos días (The Last Days) Andrea
2014
Kamikaze Natalia
2015
Requisitos para ser una persona normal (Requirements to Be a Normal Person) María de las Montañas Enríquez Conde Also writer-director
La novia (The Bride) Mujer de Leonardo ('Leonardo's wife')
2017
Verónica (Veronica)
2019
¿Qué te juegas? (Get Her... If You Can) Isabel

Television

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Theatre

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  • Las alegres comadres de Windsor

Short films

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  • La amenaza del fantasma
  • Pum Pum, ¿Quién es?
  • Habitaciones separadas
  • La bufanda verde
  • Cuál es la fecha de tu cumpleaños

Music videos

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References

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  1. ^ "Leticia Dolera en 10 claves para conocer su vida". Diez Minutos. 2 November 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Leticia Dolera, Entrevistas deportivas en AS.com". AS.com. 16 December 2008. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
  3. ^ "Los desconocidos orígenes de Leticia Dolera, la actriz española más controvertida". ABC. 24 March 2019.
  4. ^ Palmarés del 18 Festival de Málaga. Cine Español Archived 12 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine in festivaldemalaga.com
  5. ^ "Se nos llama putas si gozamos de nuestra sexualidad o monjas cuando decimos no" Archived 27 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine in cadenaser.com
  6. ^ Piñol, Àngels (23 September 2018). "La actriz Leticia Dolera pide a Barcelona que abra los ojos". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  7. ^ Sapiña, Edgar (10 May 2019). "El movimiento contra el racismo reivindica en Barcelona el derecho a voto de los migrantes". elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  8. ^ ‘Vida perfecta’, de Leticia Dolera: Feminismo para principiantes in elpais.com (in Spanish)
  9. ^ Aina Clotet denuncia que Leticia Dolera no la contrató para su serie por estar embarazada in elpais.com
  10. ^ Taulés, Silvia (14 January 2020). "Leticia Dolera y Jaume Asens no son los nuevos Malú y Rivera: te contamos por qué". Vanitatis – via El Confidencial.
  11. ^ "La nueva ilusión de Leticia Dolera, ¿es un conocido político?". ¡Hola!. 11 January 2020.
  12. ^ "Comportamientos felinos". Diario de León. 7 May 2003.
  13. ^ Stratton, David (2 September 2003). "Imagining Argentina". Variety.
  14. ^ Smith, Paul Julian (2009). Spanish Screen Fiction: Between Cinema and Television. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-1-84631-201-4.
  15. ^ Schager, Nick; Smith, Derek (21 February 2021). "Blu-ray Review: Ramin Bahrani's Man Push Cart on the Criterion Collection". Slant.
  16. ^ I.M. (22 December 2008). "El gran hermano no sólo vigila". Metrópoli – via El Mundo.
  17. ^ Estrada, Javier (22 July 2009). "No concibo un mundo sin cine". Metrópoli – via El Mundo.
  18. ^ Crespo, Irene (9 March 2012). "De tu ventana a la mía". Cinemanía – via 20minutos.es.
  19. ^ Partearroyo, Daniel de (30 March 2012). "[REC] 3 Génesis". Cinemanía – via 20minutos.es.
  20. ^ Lucas, Mateu (2013). "Los últimos días. L'apocalipsi arriba a Barcelona". Filmhistoria Online. XXIII. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona.
  21. ^ Holland, Jonathan (2 April 2014). "Kamikaze: Malaga Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
  22. ^ Muñoz, R (19 June 2023). "'Requisitos para ser una persona normal': curiosidades de la película de Leticia Dolera". rtve.es.
  23. ^ "ARAGÓN.-Zaragoza.- Leticia Dolera y Luisa Gavasa visitan La Almunia para presentar 'La novia'". La Vanguardia. 13 June 2016.
  24. ^ Silvestre, Juan (28 March 2019). "'¿Qué te juegas?': Leticia Dolera, a contrarreloj". Fotogramas.
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