1968, Rome, Italy

From a young age she began working in theatre where she carried out important roles and stood out in her work in A puerta cerrada by Miguel Narros, La gata sobre el tejado de zinc caliente and Las criadas by Mario Gas.

She has gone up on stage on numerous occasions alongside Mario Vagas Llosa in Las mil noches y una noche, Odiseo y Penelope and La verdad de las mentiras directed by Joan Ollé. She triumphed with the mise-en-scène of Un Dios salvaje by Yasmina Reza directed by Tamzin Townsen and a year later, in 2011, in the production Santo put on in the Teatro Español and directed by Ernesto Caballero. She was once again under the direction of Tamzin Townsen in Babel by Andrew Bovell. Also in La Chunga and Los cuentos de la peste both by Mario Vargas Llosa and directed by Joan Ollé and Capitalismo by Andres Lima. Other highlights of her recent roles include Medea by Seneca, adapted and directed by Andres Lima; Las troyanas by Eurípides adapted by Alberto Conejero and directed by Carme Portaceli and La vuelta de Nora also directed by Andrés Lima.

In cinema she has worked with directors such as Fernando Fernán Gómez, Gonzalo Suárez, Fernando Colombo, Imanol Uribe, Jaime Chávarri among others. The arrival of the 90s brought important projects both nationally (Boca a boca with Javier Bardem by Manuel Gómez Pereira; El pajaro de la felicidad by Pilar Miró written by Mario Camus and Celos by Vicente Aranda) as well as internationally. Soon after, she worked under Adolfo Arau in Un paseo por las nubes, co-starring with Keanu Reeves. She also participated in the film Love Walked in by José Campanella alongside figures such as Denis Leary and Terence Stamp. Aitana worked with Bigas Luna in the French coproduction of La camarera del Titanic with Olivier Martínez. Two years later she worked with this celebrated director in the film Volaverunt, for which she received the Concha de plata for Best Actress at the San Sebastian festival. She has also worked with the Oscar winning director Luis Puenzo in La puta y la ballena, with Koldo Serra in Backwoods, co-starring with Gary Oldman and Virgine Ledoyen; No tengo miedo by Gabrille Salvatores, also an Oscar winning director; El maquinista with Christian Bale by Brad Anderson and Parlami d’amore by Silvio Muccino are other recent highlights of hers. Among her most recent feature length films are Thi Mai by Patricia Ferreira.

From 1998 to 2000 Aitana became the first woman to become President of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) of Spain.

For her starring role in Medea she received numerous distinctions throughout 2015 such as the CERES prize for Best Actress, the Fotogramas de plata prize, the Valle-Inclán prize and the MAX prize for performing arts. She also got the Fotogramas de plata prize for Best Actress in La rosa tatuada. She is also recognised with the gold medal by the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.