Olga Segura

Biography

Olga Segura is a Los Angeles based actress and producer originally from Mexico. She won the Newcomer Award at the 2015 GQ Mexico Awards ceremony in November 2015. While working in Mexico in 2009 Segura formed her own production company, Producciones a Ciegas, with her brother Juan Carlos Segura and actor Hector Jimenez. Since then the company has helped to finance and produce eight feature films.

Olga started acting and producing early in her career with the 2011 film Cellmates directed by Jesse Baget, she played a supporting role to acting heavyweights Tom Sizemore and Stacey Keach. She produced and acted in Goats, which was shown in the Premieres Section of Sundance 2012. After that Segura produce and starred in Mexican writer-director Omar Ynigo’s feature debut Marcelo with Aaron Diaz, Laura Zapata and Hector Jimenez. The film premiered at the 2012 Morelia International Film Festival and was exhibited at the 2013 Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara and the 2013 Ischia Film Festival in Italy.

More recently, Olga has focused on her acting career and has made a name for herself amongst Latin America’s film community working with some of their finest filmmakers. Sundown, by celebrated Mexican director Fernando Lebrija, is being distributed by VideoCine in Mexico sold domestically by Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and is set for a worldwide release in 2016. Gonzalez: falsos profetas directed by Christian Diaz Pardo, in which Olga stars with Carlos Bardem and Harold Torres. The film gained favorable reviews and won two awards in the Feature Film Competition at the 2013 Morelia International Film Festival. Border Run by Argentinian director Gabriela Tagliavini was nominated for Best Feature at the 2012 Imagen Awards. In the film Olga played a supporting role to international stars Sharon Stone and Billy Zane. Olga co-starred with Colombian model and actress Carolina Guerra in La Luciernaga by Colombian writer-director Ana Maria Hermida. The film premiered in the Female Filmmakers New Mavericks section of the 2015 Atlanta Film Festival and also screened in La Habana, Cuba at the 37th Annual Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. The film will have its theatrical premiere in Colombia later this year.

In 2015 Olga appeared on the History Channel miniseries Texas Rising directed by Roland Joffé, starring Bill Paxton, Brendan Fraser and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Additionally she appeared in 16 episodes of Telemundo hit American telenovela Señora Acero.

Olga will be starring in the psychological thriller Veronica directed by Carlos Algara and Alejandro Martinez-Beltran where she is the co-lead with four time Ariel Award nominee Arcelia Ramírez. The film won the Roma Lazio Blood Award for post-production funding at the 2015 Ventana Sur Film Market. Olga will appear with Manolo Cardona and Paz Vega in the 14 episode series La Hermandad (The Brotherhood) directed by Carlos Bolado and Humberto Hinojosa. La Hermandad is one of the latest pieces of original content to come out of Mexican streaming service ClaroVideo and is set to be released in 2016.

Olga and Producciones a Ciegas helped to finance and produce The Truth About Emanuel written and directed by Francesca Gregorini starring Jessica Biel, Kaya Scodelario and Alfred Molina. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in the US Dramatic Competition, won 2 awards while screening at the Ashland Independent Film Festival and went on to a limited theatrical release in multiple markets across the US.

Along with colleagues Caldecot Chubb and Eva Maria Daniels, Segura helped develop and prepare The Dinner, which was shot in New York in January and February 2016. The film was adapted by Oren Moverman from the worldwide best-selling novel by Herman Koch, and starred Richard Gere, Steve Coogan, Laura Linney and Rebecca Hall.

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