Edwarda Gurrola Biography

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Activity Actress
Nationality Mexico
BIOGRAPHY
The Mexican actress Flor Edwarda Gurrola was born in 1966. She is the daughter of the renowned theater director Juan José Gurrola and the plastic artist Rosa Vivanco. She lived between school and the theater due to her father’s rehearsals. At the age of 6 she participated in a commercial directed by Arturo Ripstein and at the age of 9 she began her career as an actress in the soap opera Carrusel, playing Carmen, a poor, sweet and affectionate girl. The novel became a resounding success in Latin America and they constantly went on tour to different countries.

Her second production was Grandpa and I (1992) , in which she played the unfriendly and conceited Yoya. After finishing primary school she went to live in England to study at an arts boarding school where she attended secondary school with a specialty in drama. When she ran out of money she returned to Mexico and began making some short films and working with her father, Juan José Gurrola. In 1998 she landed the leading role in Arturo Ripstein’s film, The Gospel of Wonders .

On television, his participations also stand out – already in more mature roles – in Life in the Mirror, Bajo el alma and in series such as Mujer,casos de la vida real and Soy tu fan, in the latter he played Charlie’s nemesis (Ana Claudia Talancón): Vanessa. She was part of the cast of films such as Santitos , A Sweet Smell of Death and Sex, Love and Other Perversions. Among her latest projects are the films Solteras and Luciérnagas.