| Paulina Gaitán Ruíz | |
| Birth Name: | Paulina Gaitan Ruiz |
| Birth Date: | July 23, 1992 |
| Birth Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation: | Actress |
| Yearsactive: | 2004–present |
Paulina Gaitán Ruíz (born July 23, 1992) is a Mexican actress. She is best known throughout Mexican television and movies. She is more recently known for her role in the popular Netflix series, Narcos, as the devoted young wife of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.
Paulina Gaitán was born in Mexico City.[1] Gaitán started acting at age 9[2] and at the age of 12 had an important role in Mexican director Luis Mandoki's Innocent Voices, a tale about the civil war in El Salvador.[3]
She was the female lead in the Cary Joji Fukunaga film Sin Nombre, where she played the character of Sayra, who joins her father and uncle when they try to migrate from Honduras to the United States, and ends up travelling with El Casper, a gang member, played by actor Edgar Flores.[4]
Gaitán also played a girl kidnapped by sex traffickers in the 2007 movie Trade alongside Kevin Kline. She portrayed Sabina, a lead role in the Mexican horror drama We Are What We Are (Somos Lo Que Hay) in 2010.[5] In addition, she has played the role of Zuvely in the short film En Tus Manos, which was also released in 2010.
In 2012, Gaitán starred in the ensemble cast of the ABC Steven Spielberg series The River. Since 2015, she has starred in the Netflix original series Narcos as Tata, the wife of narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar. In 2018, she began starring as Violetta, the female lead in the Amazon Prime Original Series Diablo Guardián.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Animales en peligro | Voice | ||
| Voces inocentes | Angelita | |||
| 2006 | Morirse en domingo | Isabel | ||
| 2007 | Trade | Adriana | ||
| Cuando las cosas suceden | Fernanda | |||
| Cielo | Cielo | Television film | ||
| 2008 | Insignificant Things | Esmeralda | Nominated – Ariel Award for Best Actress | |
| 2009 | Sin nombre | Sayra | ||
| Codicia | Julia | Short film | ||
| La mitad del mundo | Paulina | |||
| 2010 | En tus manos | Zuvely | Short film | |
| We Are What We Are | Sabina | |||
| 2011 | La cebra | Valentina | ||
| Inocencia | Gaby | Short film | ||
| Días de gracia | Camila | |||
| El Bukanas | Ashley | |||
| 2012 | Matilde | Gaby | Short film | |
| Las paredes hablan | Lupe | |||
| Hermanas | Luz | Short film | ||
| 2013 | Deseo | Adolescente | ||
| Ni aquí ni allá | Short film | |||
| 2014 | Cuatro lunas | Rosita in Telenovela | Voice | |
| Eddie Reynolds y los ángeles de acero | Natalia | |||
| 2015 | Crossing point | Lucille | Associate producer | |
| Las Aparicio | Rafaela Primera | |||
| Ruta Madre | Colette | |||
| 2018 | The Good Girls | Ana Paula | Nominated – Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress[6] | |
| 2019 | Souvenir | Isabel | ||
| 2020 | Territorio | Lupe | ||
| 2022 | Me Casé Con Un Idiota | Flor | ||
| 2024 | City of Dreams |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Mujer, casos de la vida real | Episode: "Los pasos de mamá" | ||
| 2010 | Las Aparicio | Ileana Delacroix | ||
| 2010 | Capadocia | Andrea Marín | ||
| 2012 | The River | Jahel Valenzuela | ||
| 2013 | Sr. Ávila | Juliana Rivas | ||
| 2015 | Señorita Pólvora | Noemí "Beretta" | Co-lead role | |
| 2015-16 | Narcos | Tata Escobar | ||
| 2018 | Señora Acero (season 5) | Leticia Moreno | ||
| 2018 | Diablo Guardián | Violetta | Main role; 18 episodes | |
| 2020 | El Presidente | María Inés "Nené" Facuse | Main role; 8 episodes | |
| 2021 | Before I Forget | Main role | ||
| 2022 | Belascoarán | Irene |