2021 BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS NOMINEES VALERIA BERTUCCELLI IN EL CUADERNO DE TOMY
ARGENTINA - Pampa Films / Netflix Just before her 42nd birthday, Maria is diagnosed with stage IV cancer. She decides to share her battle, feelings, and thoughts with the online community. Tempered by her particularly sardonic sense of humor, which at times is almost brutal in its honesty, she attracts thousands of followers. Toward the end of her life, she decides to write a notebook with her thoughts for her young son.
ANE GABARAIN IN PATRIA
SPAIN - Alea Media / HBO Europe Hard as a rock with a bitter, surly nature. She doesn’t have any pleasant, and much less affectionate, words in her vocabulary. She is married to Joxian, and their relationship is far from affectionate. But it has never really been so, not even in the first years. She was Bittori’s best friend until the town started to turn its back on Txato. Their lives have run parallel in many ways, but when her son Joxe Mari joins ETA her world changes and she becomes radicalized.
MENNA SHALABY IN EVERY WEEK HAS A FRIDAY
EGYPT - Shahid VIP / Film Factory / Meem Nour is caught up in a scandal after having an affair with a renowned writer. Intimidated by the harsh criticism of society, she is forced to change her name to Laila and announce her death while accepting to marry the mentally challenged Emad. Laila surrenders to her new difficult life, but one day she is visited by an old neighbor who starts violently harassing her till Emad kills him.
HAYLEY SQUIRES IN ADULT MATERIAL
UNITED KINGDOM - Fifty Fathoms Productions Hayley Squires plays leading British pornstar Jolene Dollar in Lucy Kirkwood’s new drama Adult Material. Juggling on-set glamour and motherhood at home, Jolene is a poster girl for the industry; respected, aspirational, happy. Through her eyes we see a world that isn’t driven by exploitation, but by opportunity for working class women.
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