Abril Zamora Peláez[2] (born 11 November 1981) is a Spanish actress, screenwriter, and director with a long career in film, television, and theater. She rose to prominence as Luna in the FOX Spain television series Vis a Vis, which gave visibility to the LGBT+ reality through fiction.
Abril Zamora Peláez | |
|---|---|
 Abril Zamora in 2022 | |
| Born | 11 November 1981[1] Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2004–present |
Biography
editAbril Zamora Peláez was born in Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona on 11 November 1981. She made her gender transition visible through her personal social networks, and since then she has demanded both greater diversity in characters and more opportunities for the transgender community in the audiovisual media. However, for her, it is also important to speak openly about her past, of which she is also proud. In 2018, she participated in the documentary directed by Fernando González Molina The Best Day of My Life, which shows six LGBT people who gather in Madrid for the celebration of International LGBT Pride Day and who dare to live as they are with pride, joy, and commitment.[3] She also stated that she always knew she was a girl but did not identify with the trans label because gender does not really define her.[4]
Career path
editShe started acting when she was a teenager, playing King Arthur in a school play, Merlín el encantador.[5] Together with Sergio Caballero, she set up the theater company Oscura Teatre, with which she made the plays El congelador (2008), La indiferencia de los armadillos (2009), and Todas muertas (2010), all three with text by Zamora.[6] In 2014, she premiered the play Yernos que aman, a tragicomic choral story that she performed for four seasons at La Pensión de Las Pulgas in Madrid, directed by herself and in which she played one of the characters.[7] In acting, she has played small roles in the television series Los Serrano (2007), Los hombres de Paco (2008), Hospital central (2009), La que se avecina (2014) and Anclados (2015). In addition to starring in the film Marica tú directed by Ismael Núñez and broadcast on Flooxer.[8]
In April 2017, she began her transition, and it was then when she was offered a small role in the series Vis a vis, playing a girl with drug problems in a sequence; but on the test, she liked the team, and that nameless character grew and became Luna during the third and fourth seasons of the series.[9] With this role, she gained more popularity and got a nomination for Best Newcomer Actress at the Actors and Actresses Union Awards.[10]
In 2019, she created a series for Telecinco called Señoras del (h)AMPA, for which she was also director and screenwriter during its two seasons and which revolves around a group of mothers of an AMPA who kill a person by mistake.[11] The same year, she joined the screenwriting team of the Netflix series Élite. She also participated in the film ¿A quién te llevarías a una isla desierta? by Jota Linares and, a year later, in the Italian film The Life Ahead, where she shared the screen with Sophia Loren.[12] She also had a supporting role in the Netflix original series El desorden que dejas, where she played Tere, the best friend of Inma Cuesta's character.[13] Her next project was as creator, director, and actress in the HBO Max series Todo lo otro, which premiered in October 2021 and tells the story of a group of friends in their thirties and the various issues that affect them.[14]
Filmography
editAs director and screenwriter
edit| Year | Series | Channel | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Temporada baja | Flooxer | Directora y guionista |
| 2018 - 2021 | Señoras del (h)AMPA | Telecinco | Creadora, directora y guionista |
| 2019 | Élite | Netflix | Guionista de la segunda temporada (2 episodes) |
| 2019 - 2021 | Indetectables | Flooxer | Directora y guionista (2 episodes) |
| 2021 | Todo lo otro | HBO Max | Creadora, directora y guionista |
As an actress
editCinema
edit| Year | Film | Character | Directed by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | El perfume: Historia de un asesino | Chico | Tom Tykwer |
| Todo mal | Tommy | Francesc Giró | |
| 2009 | Tres días con la familia | Pere Jr. | Mar Coll |
| 2013 | Caídos | Nacho | Jaime Herrero |
| 2016 | Marica tú | Julián | Ismael Núñez |
| 2019 | ¿A quién te llevarías a una isla desierta? | Abril | Jota Linares |
| 2020 | The Life Ahead | Lola | Edoardo Ponti |
| 2023 | Mimì: Prince of Darkness | Giusi | Brando De Sica |
Television
edit| Year | Series | Channel | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | R.I.S. Científica | Telecinco | Extra | 1 episode |
| Los Serrano | Extra | |||
| 2008 | Impares | Antena 3 | Javier Romano | 2 episodes |
| Los hombres de Paco | Announcement Ruler | 1 episode | ||
| 2009 | Hospital central | Telecinco | Vicente | |
| 2014 | La que se avecina | Telecinco | Hotel receptionist | |
| 2015 | Anclados | Extra | ||
| 2016 | Temporada baja | Flooxer | Juan | |
| 2017 | Indetectables | Guillermo | ||
| 2018 | Paquita Salas | Netflix | Camarera | |
| 2018 - 2019 | Vis a vis | FOX España | Luna Garrido | 15 episodes |
| 2020 | El desorden que dejas | Netflix | Tere | 6 episodes |
| 2021 | Señoras del (h)AMPA | Amazon Prime Video | Prostitute in prison | 1 episode |
| Todo lo otro | HBO España | Dafne | 8 episodes |
Awards and nominations
edit| Year | Category | Award | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Best Newcomer Actress | Professional Actors Union of Valencia | La indiferencia de los armadillos | Nominated |
| 2010 | Best Supporting Actress | XIX Premis de Teatres de la Generalitat Valenciana | La indiferencia de los armadillos | Won |
| Best Leading Actress | XIX Premis de Teatres de la Generalitat Valenciana | El congelador | Nominated | |
| Best Actress | 15ª Mostra de Teatre de Barcelona | La indiferencia de los armadillos | Won | |
| 2011 | Best Actress | V Cortocomenius Festival | Nube de colores | Won |
| 2019 | Best new actress | XXVIII Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Vis a vis | Nominated |
| 2021 | Best Supporting Actress | CinEuphoria Awards | The Life Ahead | Nominated |
| Best cast of a film | Nominated | |||
| 2021 | Best state actress | Santurtzi Festival | Polvorón | Won |
References
edit- ^ "Abril Zamora". FórmulaTV (in Spanish).
- ^ "Abril Zamora: "No voy rechazar que antes fui Abel"". ShangayV (in Spanish). 15 January 2019.
- ^ "The Best Day of my Life - El orgullo de ser uno mismo". Metal Magazine (in Spanish).
- ^ "La actriz Abril Zamora inicia el proceso de reasignación de género: "Yo era Abel y ahora soy Abril"" (in Spanish). Formula TV. 3 July 2017.
- ^ "Entrevista a Abel Zamora". El Teatrero (in Spanish). 21 October 2015.
- ^ "Sergio Caballero y Abel Zamora". El País (in Spanish). 15 January 2012.
- ^ "Abel Zamora, habla de Yernos que Aman". Revista Tarántula (in Spanish). 12 July 2014.
- ^ "Marica tú, 2017". Cine gay online (in Spanish).
- ^ "Abril Zamora, la presa transexual de 'Vis a vis', habla de su pasado". Ecoteuve (in Spanish). 15 January 2018.
- ^ Gosálvez, Patricia (19 June 2019). "Abril Zamora: "Soy actriz, guionista, alta, nerviosa… y también 'trans"". El País (in Spanish).
- ^ "Abril Zamora y su sorprendente cameo en el final de 'Señoras del (h)AMPA'". Formula TV (in Spanish). 12 April 2021.
- ^ "Abril Zamora: "Me dijo Sophia Loren que con mi talento y mis piernas llegaré donde quiera"" (in Spanish). OndaCero. 12 November 2020.
- ^ ""El desorden que dejas", Tere: Abril Zamora, la actriz transexual de la serie de Netflix". El Comercio (in Spanish). 26 December 2020.
- ^ "HBO Max presume de 'Todo lo otro', 'Venga Juan', 'Sin novedad' y 'García', sus próximos estrenos de ficción española". Vertele (in Spanish). 19 September 2021.