Martina Rodriguez

1998–12: Early life and first roles

Martina Rodriguez was born on May 17, 1998 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her father is a businessman in the area of housewares and her mother is a high school principal. She has an older sister and an older brother. She has been a student of ACN School since 2005, starting first grade of primary school. She began studying theater at age 11 in ACN School. In 2012 aged 14 she her first role in a play titled ACN Doll of Mom covering the countries of Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Chile. She received her first nomination in 2013 ACN Awards as Best Young Theatre Actress for her work in Vampires, Rodriguez was nominated as the ceremony was held on December 20, 2013. Also in 2013 she participated in the play The cause of the world as Andrea Fron, the work spread throughout South America and parts of Europe.

Rodriguez took part in the play Tales Blue in 2014, which was released worldwide and its first performance was on January 10, 2014. Thanks to her participation in this work was nominated as Best Young Theatre Actress in ACN Awards of 2014.

2013-present: Music

In 2013, when the musical work of Vampires was on stage, was recorded the musical CD with songs from the play and was a bestseller in Latin American countries. Rodriguez is the main artist of the songs on "Corazon" and "En busqueda de la verdad" which both were rated 5 stars by the musical association of ACN. The CD of the work was launched in October 2013. She also participated in the songs of "Intacto" with Manuela Lomas and "Lugares oscuros" with Julieta Barrymore. In November 2013 it was released the official album version of the work in English, recorded by the same artists of the work. The songs in the English version was titled, "Heart", "In Search of Truth", "Unbroken" and "Dark Places". In December 2013 Rodriguez with the cast of Vampires were invited to participate in a musical show in Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. In January 2014, after its presentation in Orlando, the cast of the play was invited to London and New York to be acts of openings in two musical contests.

Rodriguez said her two biggest musical influences are Selena Gomez and Madonna, but also said that other major influences are R5, Sabrina Carpenter, Demi Lovato, Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars. In February 2014 participated in Jump Dance 2014 where it was eliminated in round 10, played their first song was "Treasure" by Bruno Mars. The official album of the musical play Tales Blue was launched in September 2014 this time on CD and digital download. Rodriguez was the leading artist in the songs "Tu juras que..." and "En el medio de todo" and performed the song "No hay lugar como el hogar" near Belen Gonzalez and Manuela Lomas. The English version of the album was launched in October 2014, originally recorded by almost all actors of the work, except Eliana de Souza. The English songs were titled "You swear you ...", "In the middle of everything" and "Home". Rodriguez appeared again in December 2014 with the cast of Tales Blue at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, also made presentations in places like Mexico, United Kingdom, Spain and more.

In the work of The Odd Life of Amy Letwis Rodriguez mainly played songs from "Pequena Amy" and "La Luz en mi" and then participated in the songs of "Travesuras" with Julieta Barrymore and Adrnes Gonzalez, "Fantasia" with Carina Maidana and "Todo se logra, todo se puede" with Barrymore and Gonzalez. In June 2015 when it announced the new short of the work, it was also announced that on opening day the same, the August 1, 2015, would be launched on CD and digital download the music album of the work, which carries the same name as the work, like the previous albums of the works of Vampires and Tales Blue.

2014-present: First appearances in TV and The Odd Life of Amy Letwis

In March 2014 Rodriguez was a special guest with Julieta Barrymore and Adnres Gonzalez in the Uruguayan reality show Dia Perfecto, broadcast on the channel of Teledoce. In 2015 she was nominated for ACN Summer Awards for Best Young Theatre Actress for her work in the 2014 work Tales Blue, was in result as nominated. During the months of July and August 2014 Rodriguez led with other children in program El canal de los ninos, broadcast on Channel 5 (National Television of Uruguay).

In 2014 she had her TV series debut in Antena 3's Sin identidad. Since February 2015 participates with Julieta Barrymore and Adnres Gonzalez in the stage production of musical comedy of ACN School, The Odd Life of Amy Letwis. In 2015 Rodriguez had her first voice role on a short film based on the play The Odd Life of Amy Letwis premiered on February 28, 2015 brought together the presentation number 3 of the work. In June 2015 announced that it had completed the production of the second short of the work, titled Mission Escape, this will be released on August 1, 2015 with a re-release of the work.

2015-present: Films

In February 2014 Rodriguez auditioned to participate in a Brazilian movie titled Camila: A Girl with big dreams, and two weeks after the audition was offered the role of Diana Robinson. The shooting of the film began in June 2014 and ended in September of the same year. The film will be released on July 13, 2015.

Two months after her audition, Martina was chosen to make the main antagonist of the Colombian film Amame como yo te amo shooting this started in September 2014 and ended in November of that year. The film will be released in August 2015. Martina in both films participates with her fellow theater Julieta Barrymore, Belen Gonzalez and Catalina Merola.

In May 2015, days after they gave the last show of The Odd Life of Amy Letwis Rodriguez confirmed through a television interview with Julieta Barrymore both were to participate in an American production called Hometown. On July 3, 2015 when Rodriguez gave a avanze on its participation in the Brazilian film Camila: A Girl with Big Dreams announced that the American film had begun shooting in New Orleans on July 1, 2015.