Biography
Ana Claudia Talancón (born 1 May 1980) is a Mexican actress and model. She first started acting in her home town, Cancún, Quintana Roo.
Talancón first started studying acting in Cancún with the Cuban professor Albio Paz. She later went to Mexico City to continue her studies at the Acting Workshop of Héctor Mendoza and Raúl Quintanilla. Since then, she has starred in various soap operas such as Al norte del Corazón, Señora, Romántica obsesión (for which she won the Sol de Oro award in 1999 for Best New Actress) and Amor Latino.
Her big screen acting debut was with the movie El Cometa by Marisa Sistach, playing the character Valentina, for which she was nominated for the Ariel award for Best New Actress. Her biggest role was alongside Gael García Bernal in El Crimen del Padre Amaro in the role of Amelia (2002).
In 2006, she has also appeared in Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation as Coco. In the same year, she has also starred in the big-screen movie "Alone with her" as the main character, and has also appeared in other movies such as "The Virgin of Juarez" in which she received the award for the Best Supporting Female Actor at the BendFilm Festival and also appeared on the movie "Mujer Albastrina". In 2007, Talancón has mostly spent time filming big screen movies rather than Latin soap operas such as "Love in the Time of Cholera" and "Ultimo Justo, El". In 2008, she has solely starred in big-screen movies and a Mexican TV series ("Terminales") for instance "One Missed Call" which was nominated at the Teen Choice Awards, "Arrancame la Vida", and "Days of Wrath". In 2009 she appeared in the 7th episode of the second season of Dollhouse.
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