Marina de Tavira Servitje (born 21 November 1974) is a Mexican actress. She is internationally known for her role in the film Roma (2018), which received widespread acclaim and earned her an Academy Award nomination.
Life and career
She studied acting at the Casa del Teatro, the Nucleus of Theater Studies, and the San Cayetano Theater Training Center. Her first job after graduating was acting in the play Feliz nuevo siglo doktor Freud (Happy New Century, Doktor Freud) by Sabina Berman. Marina de Tavira's father, a high official in the Mexican criminal justice system, was murdered in 2000, a day before her acting debut in Berman's play. Luis Rosales, a casting director at Netflix, was at this debut and later asked her to participate in Alfonso Cuarón's film Roma.
She is part of the Casa del Teatro teachers college. She is a member and founder, along with Enrique Singer, of the Incidente Teatro production company with which they have premiered Betrayal by Harold Pinter, Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley, La mujer justa by Hugo Urquijo (based on the novel by Sándor Márai), and The Anarchist by David Mamet.
She has participated in more than 25 productions such as Seven Doors.
