Acting

María Camila Pérez is an actress from Bogotá, Colombia, who from a young age started her career doing musical theater with the company MISI. She then traveled to the United States to get professional training and got a Bachelor in Fine Arts in Acting from the Minnesota State University, Mankato; there during her training she took part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and was awarded as the best Classical Actress in the Semifinal Round of her region. While being in Minnesota she played Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker, Nina in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Edith in Blithe Spirit, among others, and she has the honor of being part of the ensemble of the Guthrie Theatre’s production of King Lear. Back in Colombia she began to consolidate her on-screen acting career, she has been part of the ensemble of dancers of the musicals of Misi like Simplemente Navidad, and she was the lead of the Bogota Anglo Theatre’s production of The Turn of the Screw. Now she is doing her cinema debut as Cherry Holly, the protagonist of director David Bohorquez’ upcoming movie, Diavlo.