Ines Sastre

Born in Valladolid (and not in Madrid) the 21st of November 1973, Inés was quickly registered in a bilingual school (french-spanish). It's the reason why she speaks french fluently (but she also speaks perfectly italian and english).

One day, when she was 12, she went with a friend to a casting for a fast-food commercial. She was selected and thanks to this commercial, Carlos Saura noticed her and chose her to play in "El dorado" with Lambert Wilson (1987).

Then, in 1989, she won the Elite supermodel contest, the famous look of the year. But, and I think it happened only once, she refused to sign the contract with the agency because she prefered to continue her studies. Three years later, she moved to Paris to start her university studies (in La Sorbonne University).

The next years were very busy : a training period at the Unesco, a degree in french literature, a movie with Antonioni ("Beyond the clouds"), a lot of commercials (Vivelle, Rodier, Max Factor, Chaumet etc...), a lot of "défilés" (Chanel, Michel Klein, Genny, Vivienne Westwood, Marc Jacobs, Corinne Cobson, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Fendi, Paco Rabanne, Sonia Rykiel...).

But, the main event for Inés in 1996 is the 3 years contract with Lancôme : Inés is the new face of Trésor, the famous perfume, succeeding Isabella Rossellini.

This contract allows Inés to organize her life as she wants. So, though she had received a lot of scrips or movie proposals after "Beyond the clouds", she only started to do her new movie in April 1997 : "Il testimone dello sposo". The director is Pupi Avati and the name of Inés' character is Francesca Babini. It takes place in the beginning of the century, the favourite epoch of Inés. It's a romantic movie and we can see Inés wearing a beautiful wedding-dress! Inés loves costume movies!

After the summer holidays, she continued her graduate studies in medieval literature which turned on troubadours' songs. Inés is fascinated by the Middle Ages: she's even able to sing the Perceval legend in old-french!

Her next movie was, for television, "Le comte de Monte-Cristo" with Gérard Depardieu.

A big surprise for Inés' fans in early July 1997: she dyed her hair into light auburn for the needs of a commercial. Fortunately, it was only for a few days!

In October, Inés won the natural beauty trophy at the '97 Fashion Awards in Paris. In 1998, Inés became the Lancôme face throughout the world and tried to devote more time to her part as Unicef ambassadress.

Two shooting occured in 1999. In Spring, Inés did a movie in Argentina with director Javier Torre : she acts the role of Argentinian writer Estela Canto, a friend of Jorge Luis Borges. In October, she started to shoot a new movie in Bulgaria with Christophe Lambert and director Jacques Dorfmann: she has the leading female role in this movie about the Gallic chief Vercingetorix.

In 2000, Inés was selected as the leading host of the Italian Music Festival of San Remo (21st/26th of February). It's a kind of consecration for Inés which underlines her popularity in Italy. More informations are available in the San Remo Festival site.

During the summer of this year, she did the shooting of "Vidocq", a movie directed by Pitof in the surroundings of Paris with Gérard Depardieu and Guillaume Canet.

The last quarter of 2000 is marked by the comeback of Inés in the spanish film business : she has just started the shooting of "Torrente 2, Mision en Marbella", a comedy directed by Santiago Segura. Torrente is a famous spanish detective who falls in love with a singer played by Inés...