María Cristina Rota Fernández (born 1945) is an Argentine-born playwright, actress, director and popular acting coach settled in Spain.
[1] Cristina Rota was born in 1945 in La Plata, Argentina.
[3] She studied Philosophy and Arts, after which she trained her acting chops, and—already in Argentina—began to primarily focus on drama coaching.
[4] She left Argentina for Spain in 1978 with her children,[3] while she was pregnant of a third child, Nur Al Levi [es], from another partner.
[4] In addition to her three children, all thespians, many famous Spanish actors have trained in her school, including Penélope Cruz, Antonio de la Torre, Marta Etura and Raúl Arévalo.