Mapi Galán

Mapi Galán (August 13, 1962) is a Spanish film actress, model and yoga instructor, known for The City of Lost Children (1995) (La cité des enfants perdus), Savage Grace (2007) and Se ven de (2008) who was director and actress. She is also known as Mapi Galan or Mapy Galan.
== Early life ==
Mapi Galán was born on August 13, 1962, in Ponferrada, Province of León, and she is her parents’ seventh child. From an early age she was involved in the school's theatre plays made several roles, and also organized plays which she usually staged at his parents' house. The fitness workout and dancing were the first classes she took. As her mother was a skillful swimmer, Mapi had learned swimming at the age of three achieved after a number of some medals in provincial swimming games. At the age of 15 she was already making her own jewelry designs and she was selling them at local markets. 
After she competed Education in Spain, she next attended Escuela de Arte de Oviedo, Oviedo, for four years with a specializing subject in ceramics and painting. Later she went to live in Madrid, where she studied Flight attendant, a qualification she never used, and later two years at an acting school. She then signed with a Modeling agency where she made her first film debut in 1986 starting acting career in film Capullito de alhelí of the director Mariano Ozores. In this period she was also singing in a funky group called Suybalen y Terlenka and lived for a while in London.
== Career ==
===Actress=== 
She starred for first time in the spaghetti western film Scalps (1987 film) (1987) of the director Bruno Mattei, and horror film Catacombs (1988 film) (1988) of the director David Schmoeller, from where she discovered that her career is to be an actress. Then in 1987 she lived for six months in Japan working as a model. Later, between 1987 and 1988, she worked for a year in Rome and from there she moved to Paris, where she lived for seven years, until 1995 where she worked in various American and European co-productions, filming in almost all of Europe. Between 1989 and 1995 she worked almost exclusively in television production programmes. In 1996 she starred in British-Spanish comedy sci-fi-horror film Killer Tongue, a film wrote and directed by Alberto Sciamma. Since then she has appeared in films and television mini-series. 
===Yoga=== 
Her first Yoga, for three years, was with the teacher KhrisnaKant Pattel. After that, she continued her studies in Sivananda yoga at Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre in Paris, London, Los Angeles and Madrid. In 1995 she studied Pranayama techniques with Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader) in Los Angeles. She has received Mastery of Reiki. In 2005 she received her training certificate in the techniques of Shivananda at the International Hatha Yoga Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. In 2013 she with yoga teacher Rafa Bravo co-founded and opened the yoga retreat DePura Ibiza in Ibiza.
== Filmography ==
=== Film === 
Year 	Title 	Role 	Director 	Country of origin 	Notes
1986 	Capullito de alhelí 	Raquel 	Mariano Ozores 	Spain 	
1986 	Lulu by Night 	Self (as Mappi Galán) 	Emilio Martínez Lázaro 	Spain 	
1987 	Cara de acelga 	Enfermera 	José Sacristán 	Spain 	
1987 	Scalps 	Yarin 	Bruno Mattei 	 	
1987 	Palla al centro 	 	Federico Moccia 	Italy 	
1987 	Phantom of Death 	Susanna 	Ruggero Deodato 	Italy 	
1988 	Catacumbas 	Antonia 	David Schmoeller 	U.S.A. 	
1989 	Lluvia de otoño 	 	José Ángel Rebolledo 	Spain 	
1990 	Le trésor des îles chiennes 	Ada Della Cistereia 	F. J. Ossang 	 	
1993 	Maldita suerte 	 	José María Borrell 	Spain 	Short film
1994 	El detective y la muerte 	Laura 	Gonzalo Suárez 	Spain 	
1995 	Ainsi soient-elles 	Carmen 	 	 	
1996 	Enfants de salaud 	Woman at the airport 	Tonie Marshall 	France 	
1996 	Policía corrupto 	Romina 	Carlos Galettini 	Argentina 	
1996 	Killer Tongue 	Rita 	Alberto Sciamma 	 	
1997 	Elles 	Raquel 	Luís Galvão Teles 	Belgium 	
1997 	Gaston's War 	Veronique 	Robbe De Hert 	Belgium 	
1998 	Agujetas en el alma 	Mapi 	Fernando Merinero 	Spain 	
1999 	Shacky Carmine 	Toni Mad 	Chema de la Peña 	Spain 	
1999 	París-Tombuctú 	Esposa de Michel des Assantes 	Luis García Berlanga 	Spain 	
2000 	Papá es un ídolo 	Ángela 	Juan José Jusid 	Argentina 	
2001 	Diminutos del calvario 	Mujer 	 	Spain 	Short film
2001 	La noche de mi mal 	 	Miguel G. Bergareche 	Spain 	
2001 	Bellas durmientes 	Emma 	Eloy Lozano 	Spain 	
2002 	Looking for Chencho 	 	Kepa Sojo 	Spain 	Short film
2002 	Ángel 	Judith y Ángel 	Denis Rovira van Boekholt 	 	Short film
2005 	Soldier of God 	Soheila 	W. D. Hogan 	U.S.A. 	
2007 	Savage Grace 	Simone Lippe 	Tom Kalin 	 	
2008 	Se ven de 	 	Mapi Galán 	Spain 	
2015 	Sonata per a violoncel 	Laura 	Anna Maria Bofarull 	 	
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=== Television === 
Year 	Title 	TV channel 	Role 	Notes
1989 	Marco e Laura dieci anni fa 	RAI 	Laura 	TV movie, Italian, 2 episodes, 13 November 1989 – 20 November 1989
1989 	Valentina 	Italia 1 	Marianna 	Italian, Prime time series, 1 episode, L'altra (S 1:Ep 8), 17 November 1989
1990 	Vandronik 	 	Hexe 	TV movie, Italy, Austria, France, West Germany, Czechoslovakia, Director Ludvík Ráža
1990 	La mujer de tu vida 	La 1 	Natalie 	Spanish, Prime time series, 1 episode, La mujer oriental (S 1:Ep 3), 23 February 1990
1991 	Mörderische Entscheidung 	 	Christine 	TV movie, Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Director Oliver Hirschbiegel
1991 	The Hitchhiker 	USA Network 	Adrienne 	American, Prime time series, 1 episode, White Slaves (S 6:Ep 12), 7 February 1990
1991 	Navarro 	TF1 	Clelia 	French, Prime time series, 1 episode, Le bal des gringos (S 3:Ep 4), 14 March 1991
1992 	Counterstrike 	TF1 	Jessica 	French, Prime time series, 1 episode, Bastille Day Terror (S 3:Ep 4), 17 October 1992
1992 	Does This Mean We're Married? 	 	Maria 	TV movie, France, U.S.A.
1993 	Highlander: The Series 	 	Renee de Tassigny 	French-American, Prime time series, 1 episode, For Tomorrow We Die (S 1:Ep 15), 27 February 1993
1993 	Les grandes marées 	TF1 	Antonia 	French, Prime time mini-series, 1 episode, (S 1:Ep 8), 27 August 1993
1994 	El día que me quieras 	La 2 	Elena 	Spanish, Prime time series, 1 episode, Las espadas en alto (S 1:Ep 7), 30 November 1994
1994 	Gefährliche Spiele 	 	Claret 	Adolf Winkelmann
1995 	The City of Lost Children 	 	Lune 	TV movie, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, U.S.A., Director Sandra Joxe
1995 	Femme de Passions 	 	Victoria 	TV movie, France, Director Bob Swaim
1999 	Médico de familia 	Telecinco 	Nuria Cañadas 	Spanish, Prime time series, 13 episodes, UVI 12 (S 9:Ep 1) 21 September 1999 – Hasta siempre (S 9:Ep 13) 21 December 1999
1999 	La familia... 30 años después 	 	 	TV movie, Spain, Director Pedro Masó
1999-2000 	Ada Madrina 	Antena 3 	Gloria 	Spanish, Prime time series, 10 episodes,
2000 	¡Qué grande es el teatro! 	La 2 	 	Spanish, Series, 1 episode, La estrella 25 March 2000
2000 	La ley y la vida 	La 1 	Sonia 	Spanish, Prime time series, 13 episodes, Rivales y colegas (S 1:Ep 1) 11 September 2000 – Terribles secretos (S 1:Ep 13) 4 December 2000
2006-2007 	Cuéntame cómo pasó 	La 1 	Bárbara Gómez de Araujo 	Spanish, Prime time series, 11 episodes,
2006 	Il padre delle spose 	 	Rosario 	TV movie, Director Lodovico Gasparini
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== Stage ==
Year	Title 	Venue 	Role 	Notes
1998	Una estrella	Teatro de Alma	Estrella Torres	Author Paloma Pedrero, Directors Panchika Vélez and Paloma Pedrero
 
Category:1962 births
Category:People from León, Spain
Category:Spanish film actresses
Category:Spanish stage actresses
Category:Spanish television actresses