'Little Men's' Chilean star
Slowly but surely, actress Paulina García is breaking through in Hollywood. This year García, a top actress in her natal Chile, plays a supporting role as an immigrant mother in “Little Men,” a drama world premiering at Sundance.
Directed by the Sundance veteran Ira Sachs and co-written by the Brazilian-born Mauricio Zacharias, the movie is about two boys whose families share a building in Brooklyn, New York. But the young men’s bond is put to the test by rent money between their parents, so the boys stop talking to the adults as form of protest–the film was initially titled “The Silent Treatment.” García plays the Chilean mother of one the boys.
García's castmates are Jennifer Ehle ("Fifty Shades of Grey," "Zero Dark Thirty"), Academy Award nominee Greg Kinnear ("As Good as It Gets"), and the young, relative newcomers Theo Taplitz and Michael Barbieri, who have been developing and sharpening their acting chops in shorts and acting school.
“Little Men” is García’s latest major project in English. She had a supporting role in the Chilean miners drama “The 33” along Antonio Banderas and Juliette Binoche, and a recurring character in the Golden Globe-nominated Netflix series “Narcos.” AWARD-WINNING ACTRESS, THEATRE LEADER
The Santiago-born García has twice won Chile’s top film prize, the Altazor, first as best actress in a TV series with “Cárcel de Mujeres” in 2008 and as best actress in a motion picture with the romantic drama “Gloria” in 2014. The latter also won her the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and additional wins and nominations at other world fests. García is also a theatre director and playwright in her own right. –CESAR ARREDONDO
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