Carmen Gutiérrez

About Carmen Gutiérrez

Carmen Gutiérrez was born on November 2, 1969 in Zaragoza (Spain). She studied at the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático in Madrid, at the Estudio Nancy Tuñón in Barcelona, and at La Factoría del Gutiérrez in Madrid. In THEATRE she starred in "Antigona", "La heredera" and "La Duquesa de Malfi", and participated in several productions of the Compañía Nacional de teatro Clásico and Centro Dramático Nacional, under the direction of Ernesto Caballero (El jardín de los Cerezos, Sainetes, Acastos, ...) She has also worked with directors such as Juan Pastor, Lucía Etxebarría or Gabriel Olivares, among others. At the same time she develops her career in TELEVISION with characters such as Benita in "Amar en Tiempos Revueltos", (nominated for best TV actress by the Actors Union), Encarna, the hypochondriac mother in "La Tira", or the lawyer of the Alcántara family in "Cuéntame". In 2011 she plays Mayte Zaldíbar in "Mi gitana", and in Los Misterios de Laura she is Isabel, internal affairs police officer. In the TVE series "El caso" she plays Loli, owner of the legendary newspaper. In CINEMA she has participated in "La Soledad", by Jaime Rosales, "El mal ajeno", or "Cándida", by Guillermo Fesser. She has recently starred in the short films "Página 52" (Best Short Film at the Castilla La Mancha Festival), "Sexteen", (Audience Award at the Malaga Film Festival 2016), "Némesis"(for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Raccord Gala at the Aragonia Cinemas), and "Ya no te quiero", screened at the SEMINCI in Valladolid and for which she won the Best Actress Award at the La Fila Festival, in Valladolid . In 2018 she obtains the SIMÓN Award from the Academia del Cine Aragones for Best Actress for her character in Grupo 2 Homicidios. In 2014 she premieres "LAISA", her first short film as director and screenwriter, an autobiographical story for which she won the First Prize at the Festival Cine y Mujer de Andorra, and the Second Jury Prize at the Faludi Festival, in Budapest. In her work as a teacher, after directing the theater group of the Ramón Llull University of Barcelona, she teaches acting seminars in front of the camera at the Actors Association of Zaragoza and courses in Performing Arts at the Institute of Spanish Radio and Television. She participates as a lecturer in the Master's Degree in Spanish Literature at the Complutense University of Madrid.