MAGDA RODRIGUEZ
BAFTA - Equity - The Spotlight - Raindance - WFTV
Magda is a versatile actress with experience both on stage and screen, having been cast in a wide range of lead and supporting roles from drama through to comedy. Having dual English and Spanish nationality, she is fluently bilingual and has a great ear for several European and Latin American accents. She’s also a voice over artist for documentaries, animation, motion picture, commercials and corporate recordings.
She spent her early years in the Canary Islands and since childhood felt a strong passion for the arts. In her teens she became involved with painting, poetry, acting, dancing and singing. She moved to the UK and after attaining a BA (Hon) Modern Languages degree in Lancashire followed education within the Performing Arts in London, where she relocated to train and become a professional actress.
Magda was selected for The Actors Cut with Denis Lawson and Tom Conti by Equity, Skillset, Panavision and the Scottish Actor's Studio. She was also invited for Film Lab at the Actors Centre and Berlinale Talent Campus by Skillset and The UK Film Council.
Training:
- Meisner intro at the Actors Temple, London
- Theatre with Fernando Piernas at Galpon Pelado, Madrid
- Master Classes at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
- Stanislavski Technique at the Method Studio with Andy Lucas, Mariana Hill and Giles Foreman (Stella Adler, Strasberg’s N.Y. Actors Studio & The Russian Academy)
- Theatre Certificate at Webber Douglas Academy
- Sound and Movement with Irene Bradshaw at The City Lit
- Voice tuition with Alix Longman (founder of Voice Confidence), Val Colgan (head of Drama at The City Lit) & Stuart Pearce (Master of Sound at The Globe)
- Screen Acting with the Actors Cut II & III (Denis Lawson, Tom Conti and Scottish Actors Studio) and Alchemy of Screen Acting with Andrew Higgs
- Face The Space with Diana Laurie and on going workshops at The Actor’s Centre in acting, sight reading and camera work
- Advanced Performance Development with Diana Laurie Personal Coaching
- Stage and Screen Combat Certificate with The British Academy of S.S.C.
- Combat with Young Blood, Nights School and The Globe
Credits include many shorts and independent feature films, some of which have gone to International festivals such as Cannes and Berlin. Also fringe/west end productions, touring, musicals and corporate shoots a long with improvised/scripted performances, presenting, interviewing, radio hosting, various TV projects and for organisations such as the U.N., British Society of Cinematographers, Warner Bros and R.S.A.
Roles cover a variety of character work from strong/seductive femme fatales, creatures of the dark, mad junkies, action women, suicidal alcoholics, witches, cold murderers, vampires and bitchy detectives to submissive housewives, ‘Britget Jones’ girls, dumb secretaries, innocent nuns, angels, princesses and even King Arthur himself… from pure trash to royalty.
Magda: “I truly love character work within the magic of the stage or screen… and find that transformation & transitions given through a character’s life is even more satisfying”
(Interview.- BBC radio)
Theatre credits include touring King Arthur, playing Sister Bea in It’s Hardly Everest at the Leitonstone Fringe Festival, Lorca’s Yerma (then taken into film), singing as the lead in The Tour at the London Palladium with a 1500 audience standing ovation, showcasing Angels In America and Beyond Therapy with the International Actors Company at RADA and portraying the role of Mother in Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading for what she received an outstanding review from Theatre World.
Film credits include playing Sophie in S.N.U.B., Ruth in The Riddle with Vinnie Jones and Derek Jacobi, Betty May in In Search of the Great Beast, the Governess in Midsummer Dream with Miranda Richardson and Brian Blessed, Andrea in You're in There with Nick Moran, Ketanya in The Witches Hammer with Stephanie Beacham, Sarah in Salsa Guy (Audience Cinema Award) and Carmen in The Winter Sun Is A Lie
(Best International Digital Award, India).
“Acting is the best and most clear choice I’ve ever made in my life and the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. The passion and drive to succeed are unquestionable - its survival. I love what I do and working hard without taking anything for granted in life. I thank my lucky stars & count my blessings every day to be able to say that this is my profession”
(Magda Rodriguez) |
