Antonia San Juan
Antonia San Juan at the 2019 Sitges Film Festival
Born	(1961-05-22) 22 May 1961 (age 62) Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1994–present
Spouse	Luis Miguel Seguí (m. 2009; div. 2015)

Antonia San Juan Fernández (born 22 May 1961) is a Spanish actress, director and screenwriter.

Biography

She was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. At 19 she went to Madrid, where she started working as a professional theatre actress and also as a cabaret act in pubs and bars. She became known thanks to her role as Agrado in Todo sobre mi madre by Pedro Almodóvar. She is well known in Spain not only because of her film career but also for her humorous monologues on television and theatre^{[citation needed]}. Since 2009 she has been acting in the popular Spanish TV series La que se avecina, playing the part of Estela Reynolds, the eccentric mother of Lola.

She is an atheist and is highly critical of religion, calling it a "cancer to society."^[1]

Filmography

Film

• La vida siempre es corta – 1994
• Perdona bonita, pero Lucas me quería a mí – 1997
• La primera noche de mi vida – 1998
• El grito en el cielo – 1998
• Ataque verbal – 1999
• Manolito Gafotas – 1999
• All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) – 1999
• Hongos – 1999
• El pan de cada día, El – 2000
• Asfalto – 2000
• V.O. – 2001
• Octavia – 2002
• La balsa de piedra – 2002
• Amnèsia – 2002
• Piedras – 2002
• Venganza – 2002
• 238 – 2003
• Colours – 2003
• Mela y sus hermanas – 2004
• Te llevas la palma – 2004
• La china – 2005
• Un buen día – 2005
• Un dulce despertar – 2005
• El hambre – 2005
• La maldad de las cosas – 2005
• La nevera – 2005
• La caja – 2006
• Del lado del verano – 2012
• The Platform (El Hoyo) – 2019

Television