Starred All about my mother in 1999, winning film at the Oscars for best foreign language film.
She was awarded the Goya Awards twice and won the European Film Award for Best Actress, being the only Argentine and Latin American actress to receive said award.
Among his filmography in cinema are the acclaimed Martin (Hache), One night with Sabrina Love, Kamchatka, pain and glory y The Angel. On television, she began playing supporting roles in the television series Dare. Later, she starred in two episodes of Killer women and starred in the series Treat me right.
His father, Abrasha Rotenberg, was a Jew of Ukrainian origin who settled in Buenos Aires in the 1930s, where he worked as a writer, editor and journalist. Cecilia's mother, Dina Gutkin Saposnik, was the singer Dina Rot, who was born in Mendoza and spent her childhood in Santiago, Chile. Her brother Ariel Rot is also a musician and lives in Spain.
She began as an actress in her country until 1976 when she settled in Spain fleeing the military dictatorship. Between 1989 and 1992 she was married to Gonzalo Gil, after which she married the Argentine singer-songwriter Fito Páez, with whom she adopted a son, Martín; The couple separated in 2001.
He has not stopped working in Argentina despite fully succeeding in Spanish cinema since his first appearances in The green meadows, by José Luis Garci, Rapture, by Iván Zulueta, and Labyrinth of Passion, by Pedro Almodóvar.
Among his most relevant films it is worth mentioning A place in the world y Martin (Hache), both by Adolfo Aristarain, as well as his leading role in All about my mother, also by Almodóvar; With both directors she obtained two Goya awards for best actress.
On television he starred in soap operas For love, along with Arnaldo André and Marita Ballesteros; Nine moons; and the unitary Laura and Zoe, together with Susú Pecoraro, epitaphs, along with Julio Chávez and Leonardo Sbaraglia, and treat me right, again with Chávez.
In addition to making films and television, he has also dedicated himself to making theater in both Argentina and Spain. From 2013 to 2014 he worked on the work of Philippe Blasband A pornographic relationship, along with Darío Grandinetti.
She was a founding member of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Argentina and second vice president of its first board of directors.
In 2022 he received the Gold Medal from the Spanish Film Academy.
Source: Wikipedia