
All About My Mother
Almodóvar's Oscar-winning melodrama about a nurse searching for her ex-husband in Barcelona after her son's death. A landmark queer film featuring Penélope Cruz, Cecilia Roth, and Marisa Paredes.
Antonia San Juan is a Spanish actress, director and screenwriter born in 1961 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. She gained international recognition for her role as the transgender sex worker Agrado in Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother (1999), winning the Spanish Actors' Union Award for Best Supporting Actress. Beyond that breakthrough, her career spans the Netflix sci-fi hit The Platform (2019), the long-running TV comedy La que se avecina, and a prolific stage career run through her own company, Trece Producciones.
In January 2026, Antonia San Juan returned to the stage with a new comedy La ropa vieja de Cuca, which combines humor with reflections on the role of women in Canarian families.
In September 2025, the actress publicly announced a throat cancer diagnosis and temporarily suspended her theatrical activities to undergo treatment.
She informed fans of the diagnosis through a video on Instagram, in which she stated that she has been suffering from vocal cord problems for more than a year and underwent a biopsy.
In May 2025, she promoted her new film Lo carga el diablo on the television show La Revuelta on TVE.
In June 2024, she participated in the Cinema Jove festival in Valencia, where she presented the film Lo carga el diablo, in which she plays a hired killer.
😴 Nothing scheduled with this artist in the near future.