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From a very young age she showed interest in acting, dancing and singing.
At 14 she debuted in Colombian television, becoming the first female actress to star at such a young age, and from then on, she has had a career filled with big television hits “María Bonita”, “Leche”, “La Otra Mitad Del Sol”, “Mambo”, “Vecinos”, “La Bruja”, among others.
In 1999, her first film “Soplo De Vida”, brought her “Best Actress” award at the Biarritz Film Festival (France).
In 2000 she moved to New York to further her studies in music and acting at the Actors Conservatory where she resided five years, participating in films and TV shows such as “Law and Order”, “I’m With Lucy”, among others.
In 2003 Flora stars in one the most important movies in Latin America ́s history, after winning an audition among 400 female candidates, the adaptation of the book ̈Rosario Tijeras ̈ by Jorge Franco. In this film Flora brings to life a beautiful hit woman from Medellin, for which she was awarded “Best Actress” in Spain, France Monaco and Colombia.
The nomination of “Rosario Tijeras” to the Spanish Goya Awards brought her to Spain in 2006, where she remained living after meeting Jose Reinoso, the renowned Uruguayan jazz pianist and producer (Buika, Calamaro, Perales, Morente, Poveda, Luz Casal, Chico Novarro, Luis Salinas, Rosa Passos, Ivan Lins, Karen Souza) to whom she is actually married and with whom she has her children.
Legendary Spanish directors such as Vicente Aranda and Bigas Luna described Flora as an “authentic cinematographic beast”.
In 2016, her husband and her created one of the most successful Latin American Theatrical hits: the musical monologue “Frida Libre” based on the life and works of the iconic Mexican painter. This show captivated an audience of 250.000 people from New York, Toronto, Miami, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Ecuador y Colombia.
The songs interpreted by Flora in the musical monologue had such impact on the audience that her husband decided to record them. Since then and because of the great success that these songs started to have on Spotify Editors playlists, encouraged her to continue a musical career that continues growing day by day.
In 2023 she produced, directed and starred “Itzia, Tango & Cacao”, a film written by her husband, which is her debut as a director. In this feature film she interprets a deaf woman immersed in a scenario of Tango music and magical realism.
Reviews
Itzia Tango y Cacao (2023)
Very Original
For the past 30 years, Colombian cinema has accustomed us to violent plots, drugs, prostitutes, pedophilia. I was part of some of them such as "Rosario Tijeras": the most famous "sicaria" in cinema history. This film has none of that, on the contrary, it is artistic, magical, musical, original and with very good performances. I hope my "opera prima" will inspire other Latin American filmmakers to continue down this path of creativity in their scripts, beauty of our beautiful territories, where art and originality are the main thing, and also the depth of the human being. It was risky and brave bet to make this kind of film in Colombia, but we get it and succeeded with a wide audience in Colombian theaters during seven weeks!. I wish to continue directing and playing great characters such as my beloved Itzia. Cheers!