Zinebi 50 | Jury

Enrique Rivero

Born in Madrid in 1978, Irene Visedo began to train to be an actress at the age of 14. Since then she has studied in various schools with different methods and under different teachers. Among the former were the Cuarta Pared, Ángel Gutiérrez’ Chamber Theatre, the Schinca Studio and, above all, the Abadía Theatre directed by José Luis Gómez (where she attended workshops and courses taught by Théâtre de la Complicité, Will Keen, Jacques Lecoq and Darío Fo) and the Juan Carlos Corazza Studio. Her teachers have included Bob McAndrew, María del Mar Navarro, Sergei Ostrenko, Eduardo Recabarren, Arnold Taraborelli and Ana Vázquez de Castro.

Irene became famous in 2001 thanks to her starring role in the successful Spanish series Cuéntame cómo pasó. In recent years she has acted in several films, including The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro, 2001), April and Jules (Aitor Gaizka, 2002), The Sandman (José Manuel González-Berbel, 2007) andThe Anarchist's Wife (Marie Noëlle and Peter Sehr, 2008).