Broselianda Hernández Bourdet

Actress of theater, television and film. Graduate of the Instituto Superior de Arte. Broselianda burst onto the Cuban theater world with a bang at the end of the 1980s. She developed an intense and successful career in theater, television and film.

Broselianda Hernández is the daughter of critic, essayist and historian Rosa Ileana Boudet and actor Rolen Hernández, and was raised by her maternal grandmother Ana María and stepfather Rine Leal since her mother emigrated to the United States when Broselianda was a young woman. From a very young age she felt a great affinity for acting.

Broselianda has a daughter Sofía whom she has raised alone, being both mother and father.

Career

Bachelor's degree in Acting from the Instituto Superior de Arte in 1987, with top honors. Student of Vicente Revuelta, Isabel Moreno and Miriam Lezcano.

After graduating she joined the theater group Buscón, directed by José Antonio Rodríguez, a collective in which she worked until 1994. She then became part of the company El Público, directed by Carlos Díaz until 1999.

She was currently participating as a guest actress in the theater group Buendía, under the direction of Flora Lauten.

With Cuando el agua regresa a la tierra, in 1994, Broselianda reached all the homes in Cuba, at just 26 years old. And she came to stay.

Unforgettable and memorable is also her supporting role in the television series Doble Juego, directed by Rudy Mora in 2002. There she played the alcoholic mother of Isabel and starred in one of the production's finest scenes, in which she ruthlessly beats her daughter.

On the big screen, Brose swam like a fish in water. Barrio Cuba, by Humberto Solás, earned her the award at the Providence Film Festival. Then Cosas que dejé en La Habana, Las profecías de Amanda, Una rosa de Francia, Mata, que Dios perdona, La Anunciación. In Nada, by Juan Carlos Cremata, she had a brief role, which was "very small, barely a small scene that doesn't show her as the immense and intense actress that she was," in the director's own words.

Despite her extensive arsenal, her interpretation of Leonor Pérez, the mother of José Martí in El ojo del canario, orchestrated by the accomplished director Fernando Pérez, stands out in the memory of the millions of viewers who enjoyed it.

"I don't believe that Leonor was a submissive woman, but I don't think she was the typical woman of the era either. I think that in her life she had several confrontations with Mariano…", she said regarding the film's premiere.

Her first foray into cinema, a medium in which she has also developed, took place in 1986, in the short fiction film: Castillos en el aire, directed by Rebeca Chávez. In 2000 she worked as a guest actress in the Compañía de Teatro Hispano Gala in Washington.

In Spain she became known with her appearances in the films 'Sabor latino' directed by Pedro Carvajal and 'Cosas que dejé en La Habana' by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón.

Filmography

1986 Castillos en el aire (Short Fiction). Director Rebeca Chávez.

1989 Bajo presión. Director Víctor Casaus.

1990 Isla Margarita (Italy-Cuba). Director Vincozencio Badolizani.

1994 Tiburón en La Habana (France-Cuba). Director Alain Naltum.

1996 Sabor latino (Spain-Cuba). Director Pedro Carvajal.

1997 Cosas que dejé en La Habana (Spain-Cuba). Director Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón.

1999 Las profecías de Amanda. Director Pastor Vega.

2000 Nada. Director Juan Carlos Cremata.

2001 Dos mujeres (Medium-length film). Director Max Álvarez.

2005 Barrio Cuba. Director Humberto Solás with this performance he obtained the Providence award, in the United States.

Siempre Habana (Spain). Director Ángel Peláez.

Una rosa de Francia (Spain). Director Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón.

Mata, que Dios perdona. Director Ismael Perdomo.

2008 Así está bien (Short Fiction). Director Alejandro Soto.

2009 La Anunciación (Fiction Feature). Director Enrique Pineda Barnet.

2010 José Martí: el ojo del canario. Director Fernándo Pérez.

2015 Camionero.

Awards and Recognition

Barrio Cuba. Special Mention. Providence Film Festival. 2006.

Cuando el agua regresa a la tierra. Award for Best Female Acting in Television. Competition of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba. Havana, 1994.

Morir de noche and El público. Award for Best Female Acting in Theater. Competition of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba. Havana, 1995.

Yerma. Award for Best Female Supporting Acting in Theater. Competition of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba. Havana, 1999.

In the program by Amaury Pérez "Con 2 que se quieran" held in August 2010 she expressed: Look, I don't know, sometimes I feel eighty years old, why tell you. Sometimes depression and... bipolar moments, I say I'm very bipolar... Sometimes I send messages to my mom where I tell her: "I send you a bipolar kiss", an intense kiss, but above all bipolar. A kiss that in the morning is going to be very happy and in the afternoon is going to be very sad.