- Born
- Birth nameMarina de Tavira Servitje
- Height1.60 m
- Marina de Tavira is a Mexican theatre, film and television actress. Her career has mainly developed on the Mexican stage working with the most prestigious directors in the scene. She has played the lead parts in stagings of play writes like Bertold Brecht, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, and Ximena Escalante. In film she has worked with directors like Rodrigo Plá (in the film winner of the Lion of the Future Award in Venice 2007), Carlos Carrera, Issa López, Mariana Chenillo, Hari Sama and Alfonso Cuarón in his most recent film Roma. Her most recent TV work includes the series Ingobernable for Netflix, and Falco for Amazon directed by Ernesto Contreras. Her work has been nominated and awarded with various theatre critics and journalist associations in Mexico.- IMDb mini biography by: Jerry ML
- ParentsJuan Pablo de Tavira
- RelativesLuis de Tavira(Aunt or Uncle)Rosa María Bianchi(Aunt or Uncle)José María de Tavira(Cousin)Lorenzo Servitje(Grandparent)Pedro De Tavira(Cousin)Ines De Tavira(Cousin)
- Learned about her Oscar nomination while getting her son ready for the school. She expected Roma (2018) to be nominated but was in complete shock when she got nominated for her performance in the film.
- She is the daughter of María Lucila Isabel Servitje Montull and criminal lawyer Juan Pablo de Tavira Noriega. Her father was murdered in mysterious circumstances with the killer never being identified.
- The character she plays in Roma (2018) is modeled after the mother of director Alfonso Cuarón.
- Niece of Luis de Tavira and Rosa María Bianchi. Cousin of Julián de Tavira and José María de Tavira. Granddaughter of Lorenzo Servitje, founder of the Grupo Bimbo stage company and relevant figure in Mexican theatre.
- Accomplished stage actress. She studied at the La Conchita theatre school in Coyoacán as well as the Theatre Studies Centre and the San Cayetano Theatre Formation Centre , graduating with a performance in a stage adaptation of "Feliz nuevo siglo doktor Freud," and then performed with groups such as the National Theatre Company and the Línea de Sombra theatre. She's also an acting teacher at the Casa de Teatro and a founding member of the Incidente Teatro productions.
- [naming the reasons that lured her to star in Alfonso Cuarón's Roma (2018)] Working with an artist the magnitude of Alfonso, the character role and the fact that it was in black & white. I really liked how it signified the return of a director born in Mexico, who has achieved international recognition, but who feels an enormous gratitude to his origins as marked by this film. There is nothing about this project that anyone could say 'no' to. It is really a gift of life.
- [on the message of Roma (2018)] Sharing these experiences has been the most beautiful part of this movie. As more people see it, I realize how important it is and how many children have grown up in this way. The role that single mothers have had in raising children is a beautiful to pay tribute to and recognize, but it should also be a call to fatherhood and how we need more responsible paternal influences.
- [on the portrayal of Mexico in Roma (2018)] My childhood was in the late 1970s/early '80s, but there are many things that are in the film that are so authentic. The streets, the magazine stands, the street telephones, the cinema exit, the vendors, the sounds and the traffic was all a tremendous blow of nostalgia. Or it was something more like having something there that I thought I had lost or that was already gone, but in this film it remained there forever. It was a very bittersweet feeling.
- [on her Oscar nomination] I think it's the first time that I've cried out of joy. I'm just really, really grateful that the Academy took the time to look at Sofía, because it's not a character that pops out immediately. She's not on the surface. She's silent, she hides things. I never thought it would happen.
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