Olga Segura

Olga Segura
Segura at the 2012 Alma Awards
Born	Olga Segura Guerra August 19, 1986 Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation	Actress and Producer
Years active	2005–present
Website	www.olgasegura.com , www.olgaseguraproductions.com , Producciones a Ciegas Official

Olga Segura is a Mexican actress and producer.

Los Angeles based Mexican actress and producer Olga Segura is breaking out onto the international scene following a busy year on set culminating with the win of the Newcomer Award at the 2015 GQ Mexico Awards ceremony this past November. Though recognized in 2015 with this award Olga is no ‘newcomer’ when it comes to film and television. While working in Mexico in 2009 Olga formed her production company, Producciones a Ciegas, with her brother Juan Carlos Segura and actor Hector Jimenez. Since then the company has helped to finance and produce eight feature films.

Olga started acting and producing early in her career with the 2011 film Cellmates directed by Jesse Baget, she played a supporting role to acting heavyweights Tom Sizemore and Stacey Keach. She produced and had a special participation as an actress in Goats, which was shown in the Premieres Section of Sundance 2012. After that Olga went on to produce and star in Mexican writer-director Omar Ynigo’s feature debut Marcelo with Aaron Diaz, Laura Zapata and Hector Jimenez. The film premiered at the 2012 Morelia International Film Festival and was exhibited at the 2013 Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara and the 2013 Ischia Film Festival in Italy.

More recently, Olga has focused on her acting career and has made a name for herself amongst Latin America’s film community working with some of their finest filmmakers. Sundown, by celebrated Mexican director Fernando Lebrija, is being distributed by VideoCine in Mexico sold domestically by Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and is set for a worldwide release in 2016. Gonzalez: falsos profetas directed by Christian Diaz Pardo, in which Olga stars with Carlos Bardem and Harold Torres. The film gained favorable reviews and won two awards in the Feature Film Competition at the 2013 Morelia International Film Festival. Border Run by Argentinian director Gabriela Tagliavini was nominated for Best Feature at the 2012 Imagen Awards. In the film Olga played a supporting role to international stars Sharon Stone and Billy Zane. Olga co-starred with Colombian model and actress Carolina Guerra in La Luciernaga by Colombian writer-director Ana Maria Hermida. The film premiered in the Female Filmmakers New Mavericks section of the 2015 Atlanta Film Festival and also screened in La Habana, Cuba at the 37th Annual Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. The film will have its theatrical premiere in Colombia later this year.