Cristina Hoyos
Born: 1946-06-13 in Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain
Known For: Acting
Biography
Cristina Hoyos Panadero (Seville, Spain 13 June 1946) is a Spanish flamenco dancer, choreographer, and actress. After a successful worldwide career, she opened her own dance company in 1988 that premiered at the Rex Theatre in Paris. She played an important role during the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Hoyos started dancing at the age of twelve in the children's show Galas Juveniles. In 1969, she joined the ballet company of Antonio Gades where she continued her work for more than two decades. During this time, she toured the world demonstrating her art and starred in the film trilogy Blood Wedding, Carmen, and El amor brujo. In 1983, Hoyos played Carmen in the Antonio Gades ballet interpretation of Carmen in Paris. Her performance received rave reviews. Cristina Hoyos has taken flamenco to all corners of the world, using it as a beautiful tool that has crossed borders and with which she has united different and distant peoples and cultures, just using the tail of the gown and her heels. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cristina Hoyos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2024
- Marisol: llámame Pepa as Self
2023
- Jokes & Cigarettes as Conchita's Mother
2018
- Segunda oportunidad as Juana
- El Secadero De Iguanas as Matriarch
2010
- La balada del estrecho as María
2007
1994
- All Men Are the Same as (uncredited)
1990
- Angels as La Molina
- Carmen on Ice
- X Is Y
1989
- Montoyas y Tarantos
- Juncal as Rosario
1988
- The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway as María Picasso
1986
- El amor brujo as Candela
1984
- Carmen as Dancer
1983
- Carmen as Cristina
1981
- Blood Wedding as Bride
1967
- Bewitched Love as Bailaora
- The Last Meeting as Bailaora (herself)