Mapi Galán
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| Born | August 13, 1962 Ponferrada, Province of León, Castile and León, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Education | Escuela de Arte de Oviedo |
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| Years active | 1986–present |
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Mapi Galán (August 13, 1962) is a Spanish film actress, model and yoga instructor,[1][2][3][4] known for The City of Lost Children (1995) (La cité des enfants perdus), Savage Grace (2007)[5][6] and Se ven de (2008)[7] who was director and actress. She is also known as Mapi Galan or Mapy Galan.
Early life
Mapi Galán was born on August 13, 1962, in Ponferrada, Province of León, and she is her parents’ seventh child. From an early age she was involved in the school's theatre plays made several roles, and also organized plays which she usually staged at his parents' house. The fitness workout and dancing were the first classes she took. As her mother was a skillful swimmer, Mapi had learned swimming at the age of three achieved after a number of some medals in provincial swimming games. At the age of 15 she was already making her own jewelry designs and she was selling them at local markets.[8][9]
After she competed Education in Spain, she next attended Escuela de Arte de Oviedo,[10] Oviedo, for four years with a specializing subject in ceramics and painting. Later she went to live in Madrid, where she studied Flight attendant, a qualification she never used, and later two years at an acting school. She then signed with a Modeling agency where she made her first film debut in 1986 starting acting career in film Capullito de alhelí of the director Mariano Ozores. In this period she was also singing in a funky group called Suybalen y Terlenka and lived for a while in London.
Career
Actress
She starred for first time in the spaghetti western film Scalps (1987 film) (1987) of the director Bruno Mattei, and horror film Catacombs (1988 film) (1988) of the director David Schmoeller, from where she discovered that her career is to be an actress. Then in 1987 she lived for six months in Japan working as a model. Later, between 1987 and 1988, she worked for a year in Rome and from there she moved to Paris, where she lived for seven years, until 1995 where she worked in various American and European co-productions, filming in almost all of Europe. Between 1989 and 1995 she worked almost exclusively in television production programmes. In 1996 she starred in British-Spanish comedy sci-fi-horror film Killer Tongue, a film wrote and directed by Alberto Sciamma. Since then she has appeared in films and television mini-series.
Yoga
Her first Yoga, for three years, was with the teacher KhrisnaKant Pattel. After that, she continued her studies in Sivananda yoga at Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre in Paris, London, Los Angeles and Madrid. In 1995 she studied Pranayama techniques with Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader) in Los Angeles. She has received Mastery of Reiki. In 2005 she received her training certificate in the techniques of Shivananda at the International Hatha Yoga Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. In 2013 she with yoga teacher Rafa Bravo co-founded and opened the yoga retreat DePura Ibiza[11][12][13] in Ibiza.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Country of origin | Notes |
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| 1986 | Capullito de alhelí | Raquel | Mariano Ozores | Spain | |
| Lulu by Night | Self (as Mappi Galán) | Emilio Martínez Lázaro | Spain | ||
| 1987 | Cara de acelga | Enfermera | José Sacristán | Spain | |
| Scalps | Yarin | Bruno Mattei |
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| Palla al centro | Federico Moccia | Italy | |||
| Phantom of Death | Susanna | Ruggero Deodato | Italy | ||
| 1988 | Catacumbas | Antonia | David Schmoeller | U.S.A. | |
| 1989 | Lluvia de otoño | José Ángel Rebolledo | Spain | ||
| 1990 | Le trésor des îles chiennes | Ada Della Cistereia | F. J. Ossang | ||
| 1993 | Maldita suerte | José María Borrell | Spain | Short film | |
| 1994 | El detective y la muerte | Laura | Gonzalo Suárez | Spain | |
| 1995 | Ainsi soient-elles | Carmen |
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| 1996 | Enfants de salaud[14] | Woman at the airport | Tonie Marshall | France | |
| Policía corrupto | Romina | Carlos Galettini | Argentina | ||
| Killer Tongue | Rita | Alberto Sciamma |
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| 1997 | Elles | Raquel | Luís Galvão Teles | Belgium | |
| Gaston's War | Veronique | Robbe De Hert | Belgium | ||
| 1998 | Agujetas en el alma | Mapi | Fernando Merinero | Spain | |
| 1999 | Shacky Carmine | Toni Mad | Chema de la Peña | Spain | |
| París-Tombuctú | Esposa de Michel des Assantes | Luis García Berlanga | Spain | ||
| 2000 | Papá es un ídolo | Ángela | Juan José Jusid | Argentina | |
| 2001 | Diminutos del calvario | Mujer |
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Spain | Short film |
| La noche de mi mal | Miguel G. Bergareche | Spain | |||
| Bellas durmientes | Emma | Eloy Lozano | Spain | ||
| 2002 | Looking for Chencho | Kepa Sojo | Spain | Short film | |
| Ángel | Judith y Ángel | Denis Rovira van Boekholt |
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| 2005 | Soldier of God | Soheila | W. D. Hogan | U.S.A. | |
| 2007 | Savage Grace | Simone Lippe | Tom Kalin |
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| 2008 | Se ven de | Mapi Galán | Spain |
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| 2015 | Sonata per a violoncel | Laura | Anna Maria Bofarull | ||
| According to the official film data base the film premiere date and the release date from country to country can be differential.[15] | |||||
Television
| Year | Title | TV channel | Role | Notes |
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| 1989 | Marco e Laura dieci anni fa | RAI | Laura | TV movie, Italian, 2 episodes, 13 November 1989 – 20 November 1989 |
| Valentina | Italia 1 | Marianna | Italian, Prime time series, 1 episode, L'altra (S 1:Ep 8), 17 November 1989 | |
| 1990 | Vandronik | Hexe | TV movie, Italy, Austria, France, West Germany, Czechoslovakia, Director Ludvík Ráža | |
| La mujer de tu vida | La 1 | Natalie | Spanish, Prime time series, 1 episode, La mujer oriental (S 1:Ep 3), 23 February 1990 | |
| 1991 | Mörderische Entscheidung | Christine | TV movie, Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Director Oliver Hirschbiegel | |
| The Hitchhiker | USA Network | Adrienne | American, Prime time series, 1 episode, White Slaves (S 6:Ep 12), 7 February 1990 | |
| Navarro | TF1 | Clelia | French, Prime time series, 1 episode, Le bal des gringos (S 3:Ep 4), 14 March 1991 | |
| 1992 | Counterstrike | TF1 | Jessica | French, Prime time series, 1 episode, Bastille Day Terror (S 3:Ep 4), 17 October 1992 |
| Does This Mean We're Married? | Maria | TV movie, France, U.S.A. | ||
| 1993 | Highlander: The Series |
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Renee de Tassigny | French-American, Prime time series, 1 episode, For Tomorrow We Die (S 1:Ep 15), 27 February 1993 |
| Les grandes marées | TF1 | Antonia | French, Prime time mini-series, 1 episode, (S 1:Ep 8), 27 August 1993 | |
| 1994 | El día que me quieras | La 2 | Elena | Spanish, Prime time series, 1 episode, Las espadas en alto (S 1:Ep 7), 30 November 1994 |
| Gefährliche Spiele | Claret | Adolf Winkelmann | ||
| 1995 | The City of Lost Children | Lune | TV movie, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, U.S.A., Director Sandra Joxe | |
| Femme de Passions | Victoria | TV movie, France, Director Bob Swaim | ||
| 1999 | Médico de familia | Telecinco | Nuria Cañadas | Spanish, Prime time series, 13 episodes, UVI 12 (S 9:Ep 1) 21 September 1999 – Hasta siempre (S 9:Ep 13) 21 December 1999 |
| La familia... 30 años después | TV movie, Spain, Director Pedro Masó | |||
| 1999-2000 | Ada Madrina | Antena 3 | Gloria | Spanish, Prime time series, 10 episodes,
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| 2000 | ¡Qué grande es el teatro! | La 2 | Spanish, Series, 1 episode, La estrella 25 March 2000 | |
| La ley y la vida | La 1 | Sonia | Spanish, Prime time series, 13 episodes, Rivales y colegas (S 1:Ep 1) 11 September 2000 – Terribles secretos (S 1:Ep 13) 4 December 2000 | |
| 2006-2007 | Cuéntame cómo pasó | La 1 | Bárbara Gómez de Araujo | Spanish, Prime time series, 11 episodes,
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| 2006 | Il padre delle spose | Rosario | TV movie, Director Lodovico Gasparini | |
| TV movie is also known as Television film|Made-for-TV-Movie; Saison number:Episode number is shortened as S number:Ep number | ||||
Stage
| Year | Title | Venue | Role | Notes |
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| 1998 | Una estrella | Teatro de Alma | Estrella Torres | Author Paloma Pedrero, Directors Panchika Vélez and Paloma Pedrero |
References
- ↑ "Mapi Galán – official website". mapigalan.com (in español). Archived from the original on 2 August 2021.
- ↑ "Mapi galán: no soy de los que vuelven siempre a casa por navidad, he pasado muchas lejos de mi familia" [Mapi Galán: I'm not one to always come home for Christmas, I've been a lot away from my family]. ¡Hola! (in español). 20 December 2000. Archived from the original on 22 February 2023.
- ↑ "Mapi Galán actriz" (PDF). juventudbierzo.com (in español). 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 July 2013.
- ↑ "Mapi Galán". moviefit.me (in español). Archived from the original on 22 February 2023. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
- ↑ "Savage Grace". BBC Two. 9 February 2015. Archived from the original on 25 February 2015.
- ↑ "Mapi Galán" (in español). FilmAffinity. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023.
- ↑ "La sección 'Balearic Spirit' abrirá hoy el III Festival Internacional de Ibiza" (in español). La Región Internacional. 27 May 2009. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023.
- ↑ "Mapi Galán – biographia (PDF)" (PDF). mapigalan.com (in español). Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 February 2020.
- ↑ "Galán – biographia". mapigalan.com (in español). Archived from the original on 2 August 2021.
- ↑ "Escuela de Arte de Oviedo". escueadearte.com (in español). Archived from the original on 22 February 2023.
- ↑ "DePura Ibiza". welcometoibiza.com. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023.
- ↑ Eva De Vor (10 February 2016). "DePura Ibiza". evalunes.com. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023.
- ↑ Christian Dori (September 2015). "DePura Ibiza" (in español and English). Night&Day Magazine. p. 54. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023 – via Issuu.
- ↑ James Travers (2007). "Enfants de salaud (1996)". frenchfilms.org. Archived from the original on 22 February 2023.
- ↑ "Mapi Galán credits on Internet Movie Database (IMDb)". IMDb. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021.
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