Karina Gidi
Actress
Karina has worked alongside some of the best directors in Mexico and the world including:
Ludwik Margules, Raul Quintanilla, Georges Lavaudant, Daniele Finzi Pasca, Jose Caballero,
Yoshi Oida and Keith Johnstone. She possesses a wide range of experience, and has acted in
theater, television and film projects.In 2000, she starred in the film Demasiado Amor (Too Much Love) by Ernesto Rimoch, for
which she earned the Best Female Lead Actress award at the 2001 Guadalajara
International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Actress at the 2002 Arieles (the
Mexican equivalent of the Oscars).
Her theatre experience includes “Festen”, “Sueño de una noche de verano,” “Dolores o la
felicidad,” and “Don Juan”—for which she won the Best Performance by a Young Female
Actress of 1997‐1998 Award by the Mexican Theatre Critics Association. She has worked
under the direction of Ludwik Margules, David Olguín, Lorena Maza, Alberto Lomnitz, and
Martin Acosta, among others.
In 1999, she took on the new role of writing and starring in “Instrucciones para volar”
(Instructions for Flying), a play that was a part of the Fringe Festival of Edmonton, Canada
and participated in XXI Muestra Nacional de Teatro, among other festivals. She has twice
earned the “Interpretes” grant, which is awarded by the National Culture and Arts Fund
(1998‐1999 and 2004‐2005)
This year, she starred in the series Estado de Gracia (State of Grace), produced by Corazón
Films for Canal 11. She also participated in the play “Fresas en Invierno” (Strawberries in
Winter) directed by Raúl Quintanilla and starred in Abel, written and directed by Diego
Luna.
Filmography Karina Gidi
Abel by Diego Luna - 2010
El último canto del pájaro cú by Alonso Ruiz Palacios (short) - 2010
Depositarios by Rodrigo Ordoñez - 2010
Vivir por ti (TV series) by Walter Doehner, Silvana Zuanetti - 2007
El búfalo de la noche by Jorge Hernandez Aldana
- 2006
Fonda Susilla (TV series)
- 2006
Peces plátano by Natalia Beristáin (short)
- 2004
Gitanas by Jorge Fons, Victor Hugo Martinez (TV series)
- 2002
Demasiado amor by Ernesto Rimoch - 1995
Impetus Apaches by Roberto Chellet (short)
