# Angie Cepeda

Angélica María Cepeda Jiménez (born 2 August 1974), professionally known as Angie Cepeda, is a Colombian actress. She is best known for her roles in the telenovela Pobre Diabla and the films Captain Pantoja and the Special Services and Love in the Time of Cholera. She is the younger sister of actress Lorna Cepeda.

## Early life

Cepeda was born in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, and raised in Barranquilla. After her parents divorced she lived with her mother and two older sisters (one of whom is actress Lorna Paz).

## Career

When she discovered her vocation in drama, she moved out to Bogotá. After starting her drama courses, she was contracted by a beer company and made some advertisements for it. Next, she played some bit parts in several soap operas and movies in Colombia.
Cepeda got a role in the soap opera Las Juanas, getting the attention of some TV producers who offered her jobs in prime time shows, such as the leading role in Luz Maria (1998), co-starring Christian Meier and Rosalinda Serfaty, and that as Fiorella Morelli Flores de Mejía Guzmán in Pobre Diabla (2000), opposite Salvador del Solar and Santiago Magill.
In the cinematic world, Peruvian director Francisco Lombardi convinced her to portray a prostitute called "La Colombiana" in Pantaleón y las Visitadoras (released in English as Captain Pantoja and the Special Services). In 2021, she voiced Julieta Madrigal in the English, Spanish and Italian language versions of the Disney animated musical film Encanto.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Format | Role | Notes |
| 1993 | La maldición del paraíso | TV series | Laura | |
| 1993 | Crónicas de una generación trágica | Miniseries | Merceditas Nariño | |
| 1995 | Sólo una mujer | TV series | Carolina Altamirano | |
| 1995 | Candela | TV series | Candelaria Daza | |
| 1996 | Ilona llega con la lluvia | Film | Zulema | Cartagena Film Festival Award for Best Newcomer |
| 1997 | Las Juanas | TV series | Juana Valentina Salguero | |
| 1998 | Luz María | TV series | Luz María Camejo | |
| 1999 | Pantaleón y las visitadoras | Film | La Colombiana | |
| 2000 | Pobre diabla | TV series | Fiorella Morelli | |
| 2001 | Leyenda de Fuego | Film | Cecilia | |
| 2002 | El destino no tiene favoritos | Film | María | |
| 2003 | Sammy y yo | Film | Mary | Viña del Mar Film Festival Award for Best Actress |
| 2004 | Suddenly Paradise | Film | Amaranta/Anna | |
| 2005 | Love for Rent | Film | Sofía García | |
| 2005 | Vientos de agua | TV series | Mara | |
| 2005 | Oculto | Film | Natalia | |
| 2006 | El muerto | Film | María | |
| 2006 | Love in the Time of Cholera | Film | Widow Nazareth | |
| 2007 | De paso | Short Film | Marina | |
| 2008 | Fuera de lugar | TV series | Luz | |
| 2009 | Privateer | Short film | Catherine | |
| 2010-2012 | Los protegidos | TV series | Jimena García Cabrera | |
| 2010 | With or Without Love | Film | Claudia |
| 2011 | Heleno | Film | Diamantina | |
| 2012 | Pablo Escobar, El Patrón del Mal | TV series | Regina Parejo | |
| 2012 | Exposados | TV series | Vera | |
| 2013 | A Night in Old Mexico | Film | Patty Wafers | |
| 2014 | The Vanished Elephant | Film | Mara de Barclay | |
| 2015 | Wild Horses | Film | Maria Gonzales | |
| 2016 | The Seed of Silence | Film | María del Rosario Durán | |
| 2016 | 2091 | TV series | Lila | |
| 2019 | Kobiety mafii 2 | Film | Aida | |
| 2019 | Kill Chain | Film | The Very Bad Woman | |
| 2021 | Encanto | Film | Julieta Madrigal | English, Spanish & Italian versions |
| 2022 | Halo | TV series | Violetta Franco | |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
| 1996 | Cartagena Film Festival | Best Newcomer | Ilona llega con la lluvia | Nominated |
| 2004 | Viña del Mar Film Festival | Best Actress | Sammy y yo | Won |
| 2017 | Platino Awards | Best Actress | The Seed of Silence | Nominated |