Nailea Norvind (born February 16, 1970 in Mexico City, México) is a Mexican Theatre, television and film actress. She started her career at a young age.

She appeared in the critically acclaimed film Gaby: A True Story. She also lent her voice to play Princess Kida in the Spanish dubbing of Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Most remembered from her role as the villain Leonor in the telenovela Quinceañera. She was nominated for the Ariel in 2012 as best supporting actress for her role as Nina in the film " La Otra Familia".

Biography

She is the daughter of Norwegian-born psychosexual counselor, dominatrix, writer, producer, director and former actress Eva Norvind who was in turn the daughter of a Russian prince Paulovic Chegodayef Sakonsky and a Finnish sculptor Johanna Kajanus. However, Nailea has been estranged from her mother since she was 12. Norvind with her mother search on Dutch television of her unknown Dutch father on the program "Spoorloos" on February 2, 2004. Nailea has two daughters of her own: Naian and Tessa Ía González Norvind, the last appearing at 17 years of age in her first movie Después de Lucía, a Mexican film by Michel Franco prized in 2012 in Cannes.

Norvind started her acting career at the age of 6 in theatre A Doll's House by Ibsen; and in TV on the telenovela Chispita. Nailea's break came in at the age of 17 with the telenovela Quinceañera. The same year she participated in the film Gaby: A True Story. After a few small roles in several other telenovelas she made Cuando llega el amor and then took a break from television. She returned eight years later on the telenovela Preciosa. n 2006, Nailea completed the film that her mother, Eva Norvind, had been directing and producing at the time of her death in May of that same year. Entitled Born Without, it is a documentary about severely handicapped Mexican actor and musician José Flores. In March 2007, Born Without won Best International Documentary at the Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo de la Ciudad de México (FICCO).




Films



Year
Title
Role
Notes


1987
Gaby: A True Story
Terry
Film


2001
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Princess Kida
Film


2011
La Otra Familia
Nina
Film

Theater



Year
Title
Role
Notes


-
"Los Corderos"

Theater


-
"Espejos"

Theater


-
"La Inauguración"

Theater


2009
Edward II

Theater


-
Memoria

Theater


-
Electra

Theater


2004
Opción Múltiple

Theater


-
Muerte Súbita

Theater


-
Las mariposas son libres

Theater


-
Honor

Theater


-
Robin Hood

Theater


-
Jesucristo Superestrella (Jesus Christ Superstar)

Theater


-
Kumán

Theater


-
José el soñador (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)

Theater


-
Those Darn Kids

Theater


-
Genesis One

Theater


-
"A Dolls House"

Theater

Series/Herself



Year
Title
Role
Notes


1987
Cachún cachún ra ra!
Aïda
Tv Series


2001
Diseñador ambos sexos
Azafata
Tv Show


2002
Big Brother VIP: México
Herself
Reality


2008
Mujeres Asesinas
Martha, asfixiante
Tv Series


2009
Hermanos y detectives
Isabel
Tv Series


2011
Capadocia 2a temporada
Diane Brighton
Tv Series


2011
Como dice el dicho
Elena
Tv Series


2013
Sr. Avila
María Ávila
Tv Series

Telenovelas



Year
Title
Role
Notes


1982-83
Chispita
Sarita
Antagonist


1984
Guadalupe
Nani
Supporting Role


1986-87
Pobre juventud
Gaby
Supporting Role


1987-88
Quinceañera
Leonor
Main Antagonist


1988-89
Encadenados
Mariela
Supporting Role


1989
Lo blanco y lo negro
Selma Alcazar
Supporting Role


1990
Cuando llega el amor
Alejandra Contreras
Main Antagonist


1998
Preciosa
Valeria San Roman de Santander
Main Antagonist


1999
Amor gitano
Isa Valenti
Main Antagonist


2000-01
Abrázame muy fuerte
Deborah Falcón de Rivero
Main Antagonist


2001
Amigas y rivales
Paula Morell
Antagonist


2004-05
Mujer de Madera
Viviana Palomares
Antagonist


2006
Rebelde
Marina Caceres de Colucci
Supporting Role


2008
Cuidado con el Angel
Viviana Mayer Montenegro de San Román
Antagonist


2011-12
Para volver a amar
Valeria Andrade de Longoria / Marleni Lagos
Protagonist


2012
Abismo de pasion
Begoña de Tovar
Supporting Role


2014-15
Muchacha italiana viene a casarse
Federica Ángeles
Main Antagonist