Aitana Sanchez Gijon

Aitana Sanchez-Gijon was born in Rome, Italy on November 5th 1968. She premired professionaly at age 16 for a TVE-series called "Segunda Enseñanza" by Pedro Masó.

Best known for playing comic roles in Spain, Sánchez-Gijón is known in the United States for her dramatic portrayal of Victoria Aragon, a pregnant and abandoned winegrower's daughter who is helped by travelling salesman Paul Sutton (Keanu Reeves) in A Walk in the Clouds (1995). She has since built a reputation as an international star in films such as Manuel Gomez Pereira's Boca a Boca (1996), Bigas Luna's The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997), Jaime Chavarri's Sus Ojos Se Cerraron (1998), Gabriele Salvatores' adaptation of the Niccolò Ammaniti novel I'm not scared (2003) and Brad Anderson's The Machinist (2004).