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Coming from a long line of well-known of artists, she is the third of eight children of the singer and actor Antonio Molina, her siblings Paula, Miguel, Monica and Noel also followed the family tradition in acting and music. Her daughter, Olivia Molina, is an actress, too.
She has appeared in almost a hundred films, including some of the masterpieces in the history of Spanish and international cinema. She has shot around the world and has won major awards such as the David of Donatello Italian Academy "Camorra: Contact in Naples", the Silver Shell at the San Sebastian Festival for "Half the Sky”, the Fotogramas de Plata (Silver Frames), Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts (2002) and the Gold Medal of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain, after being nominated five times for a Goya.
Luis Buñuel, José Luis Borau, Manuel Gutierrez Aragon, Ridley Scott, Pedro Almodóvar, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Ricardo Franco, Jaime Chavarri, Alain Tanner, Miguel Littin, Jaime Camino, Bigas Luna, Lina Wertmüller, Marco Bellocchio, Jaime de Armiñán, Pablo Berger or Josefina Molina, are just a selection of the filmmakers with whom she has worked, with a filmography containing unforgettable films such as "That Obscure Object of Desire," "To an Unknown God", "The Remains from the Shipwreck "," Heart of the Forest", "Sabina ", "Demons in the Garden", "Bearn or The Dolls’ Room", "Lola", "Half of Heaven", "The Golden River", "The Man Who Lost His Shadow (shot in Almería)," Wind with the Gone ","Vantage Point" (filmed in Almería)," Broken Embraces "or" Snow White ".
An unparalleled career in The Things of Love Jaime Chávarri (1988), which was filmed in Almeria together with Manuel Bandera and became a blockbuster at the time, takes pride of place.
Hijo de una leyenda del cine, el gran John Wayne, empezó su carrera desde muy joven. Ha trabajado junto con su padre en varios largometrajes como Centauros del desierto (The Seachers, 1956) de John Ford, Los comancheros (The Comancheros, 1961) de Michael Curtiz o El Álamo (The Alamo, 1960), en el que trabajó a las órdenes de su progenitor.
Precisamente se cumplen ahora cuarenta años de su rodaje en tierras almerienses de Simbad y el ojo del tigre (Sinbad and the eye of the Tiger) de John Wanamaker, aunque no fue ésta la única ocasión en que este prolífico actor rodó en nuestra provincia. Ya lo había hecho en 1969, cuando coprotagonizó La quebrada del diablo (The deserter) de Burt Kennedy junto a John Huston y Richard Crenna.
En 1984 también participó en el divertido western de humor Esos locos cuatreros (Rustlers’ Rhapsody) de Hugh Wilson, compartiendo aventuras junto a Tom Berenger y Fernando Rey.
Patrick Wayne ha desarrollado una prolífica carrera llevando con orgullo el apellido familiar, trabajando con algunos de los grandes directores de Hollywood y desarrollando una personal, interesante e intensa carrera, donde ha compaginado tanto el cine como la televisión.
It was the summer of 66 and his mother, pregnant, accompanied Juan Fernandez’s father, Sergio Leone’s driver, during the filming of 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'. The future offspring could do nothing else but go into film. Since his birth, the events of his life have not been governed by dates but by film titles and shooting, in the same way as the three generations of a family whose story illustrates an important part of almost sixty years of cinema in Almeria, from 'Oeil pour oeil' (An Eye for an Eye) to 'Game of Thrones'.
His comprehensive CV and extensive filmography bear witness to his professionalism. His friends and colleagues of the shootings of many a film can vouch for his integrity and warmth.
Juan Fernandez's passion for film-making can ensure that a coffee is sipped very slowly or that an after-dinner chat can go on until the early hours of the morning, just talking about films. For Juan gives us real treasures in the shape of his experiences with the great people of film with absolute simplicity, always as natural as can be and he is always discretely polite.
If there is something that moves Juan as much as cinema it’s his land. While he is away, his virtues make ‘Juanito (Johnny), the filmer’ a very beloved character. Osuna or Pitillas know it well. Selling our landscape and light to the film industry is one of his obsessions. Nothing makes him happier than shooting in Almeria.
