Laura Margarita Rodríguez de la Uz

Cuban actress of theater, film and television.

She graduated from the National School of Theater Instructors of La Habana in 1992, but her film debut occurred while still a student, in 1990, when she starred in the film Hello Hemingway directed by Fernando Pérez, for which she won the Coral Award for Best Female Performance at the XII International Festival of New Latin American Cinema.

From that date on, she has developed a brilliant career spanning film, theater and television. Her performances in classics of Cuban theater such as Electra Garrigó and La Boda and in serials such as Blanco y Negro ¡No! and ¡Oh, La Habana! were highly praised by the Cuban public and critics.

In 2000 she graduated as an international comedian at the International School of Gesture and Image "La Mancha" in Santiago de Chile.

In film she has acted in the following movies: "Hello Hemingway", "Una Pistola de verdad", "Historia de un amor adolescente", "Madagascar", "La Muerte", "Amores", "Historias clandestinas de La Habana" and "Divina desmesura", among others.

On Cuban Television she worked in series and programs such as "El Naranjo del Patio", "Konrad", "Blanco y Negro ¡No!", "A lo mejor para el año que viene", "Pocholo y su pandilla", etc.

And in theater in productions such as "Mascarada Casal", "La boda" and "Electra Garrigó"

In 2001 Laura de la Uz directed in Chile the play "Mentita´s bar" with the theater company "La Sombra".

"Ana's Movie has a good script and is a fun story, with first-rate cinematography and actors who gave everything for Daniel Díaz Torres' latest film. From that feature film I especially recall my improvisation in the monologue about the special period, because that's what I did, I told Daniel, I'm going to create, then he indicated that they shouldn't cut me off. When I finished, Yuliet (Cruz) asked what is this?, because nothing I had said was in the script, but it stayed that way. "I did catharsis, I admit it and how good it felt".

The very versatile Laura de la Uz is remembered—furthermore—for her performances in classics of Cuban theater such as Electra Garrigó and La Boda. Currently she works for Teatro de la Luna, "on stage, she says, naturalness—contrary to what is believed—is essential. You can be theatrical without ceasing to be organic and natural".

She has also participated in television serials such as Blanco y Negro ¡No! and ¡Oh, La Habana!, whose characters have been praised by the Cuban public and critics. On the secret of her "histrionic abilities" she explains that she prepares for each of her interpretations. "I do prior research that goes beyond studying the character or possessing a refined and seasoned technique, because only that way do I manage to capture their psychological evolution. In acting you have to study, investigate, you can't stay with the knowledge and you have to improvise, but you have to know how to do it.

"I'm not an actress who takes her characters home. Perhaps I demystify somewhat that thing about the character living you—inside and outside the set—some time after playing it. With me, the wounds of their study and the sufferings to assume them go home, but not the stories of the character itself. If I did that right now I would be a prostitute, a blind woman, a schizophrenic or a transvestite.

"In less than two years I've done leads for Ana's Movie, The Wall of Words by Fernando Pérez (about to premiere), and with a difference of days or weeks, or sometimes at the same time for Marilyn Solaya the film Wedding Dress, and more recently Dark Glasses. Can you imagine me taking each of those characters home?

"In the first of those movies I played an actress who in turn played a prostitute; in the second—much more painful—I interpreted a schizophrenic, a character for which I studied a lot, I even did shifts in the psychiatry clinic at Calixto García hospital, there I made great friends doctors and patients. I witnessed their moments of crisis and fright, them yes I took home, the characters no.

"Then I arrived as a transvestite to Wedding Dress, raped, I also met during the study period many, and some stories of those who were raped as children and treated like nobody as adults. The last of the films I've made in this short period is Dark Glasses, the story of a blind woman and the torments of her childhood. Right now what I need is to go to the top of a hill".

Works Completed
Film
1990:
Hello Hemingway. Director: Fernando Pérez.
1991:
Obviously They Ate Swiss Chocolates. Director: Manuel Marcel.
1992:
A Real Pistol. Director: Eduardo De La Torre.
Story of a Teenage Love. Director: Juanita Medina.
1993:
Madagascar. Director: Fernando Pérez.
1994:
Death. Director: Gabriela Valentá.
Loves. Director: José Sanjurjo.
1996:
Clandestine Stories from La Habana. Director: Diego Musiak.
2005:
El Beny. Director: Jorge Luís Sánchez.
2006:
Siberia.
Homo sapiens Dir. Eduardo del Llano
2008:
The Horn of Plenty. Director: Juan Carlos Tabío.
2009
The Minutes, the Hours
I'll Take Care of the Plumber
2010
Aché Dir. Eduardo del Llano
Ticket to Paradise Director: Gerardo Chijona
And Yet Dir. Rudy Mora.
2012
Esther Somewhere Dir. Gerardo Chijona
Ana's Movie Director: Daniel Diaz Torres

Television
1991:
The Orange Tree in the Patio. Director: Xiomara Blanco.
1992:
The Mobile Beloved. Director: Camilo Hernández.
Konrad. Director: José Luís Yánez.
Pocholo and His Gang. Director: Charlie Medina.
1993:
Black and White No!. Director: Charlie Medina
1996:
Teleseries "Next Year". Director: Héctor Quintero.
2004:
G-Spot.
2007:
¡Oh, La Habana!. Director: Charlie Medina.
2009:
Swear to Tell the Truth
The Path of the Minstrels
Life According to Nicolás Dir. Ernesto Fiallo
Strays Teletheatre

Theater
1993:
Mascarada Casal. Director: Armando Suárez Del Villar.
1995:
The King Has Not Died. Director: Allen Euclides.
1997:
The Wedding. Director: Raúl Martín.
Electra Garrigó. Director: Raúl Martín
2006 and 2007:
Delirium Habanero. Director: Raúl Martín
2008:
Heaven.Director: Raúl Martín

Awards
Coral Award for Best Female Performance at the XII International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of La Habana in December 1990.
Award for Best Female Performance at the 11th Atlantic Film Festival. Canada in 1991.
Recognition from the Film Clubs of Italy (ARCI NOVA) at the XVI International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of La Habana.
CARICATO Award from the Association of Performing Artists of UNEAC for her leading performance in the Films Madagascar and Loves in December 1995.
CARICATO Award from the Association of Performing Artists of UNEAC for her leading performance in the play "La Boda" by Virgilio Piñera in December 1997.
Nominated for the ACE Awards (Association of Entertainment Critics of New York) for her performance in Madagascar by Fernando Pérez in 1997.
CARICATO Award "Francisco Covarrubias" for Best Female Performance in Theater for "Delirio Habanero" in 2006.
"La Avellaneda" Award for Best Female Performance at the Camagüey Theater Festival for "Delirio Habanero" in 2006.
"Florencio Escudero" Award from UNEAC at the Camagüey Theater Festival for Best Female Lead Performance in the play "Delirio Habanero"
Award for Best Female Performance for The Minutes, the Hours, by Brazilian director Janaina Marqués at the XII International Short Film Festival of Torrelavega, in Spain, 2011.
Award for Female Performance at the 34th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of La Habana for her performance in Ana's Movie directed by Daniel Díaz Torres.
Nominated for the Platinum Awards in Panama, 2014.