17/06/2026
There are actresses who seduce with distance. Cristina Umaña does the opposite — she exposes herself, fractures herself, surrenders — and in that net-free surrender there is something no technique can manufacture. Thirty years building a career on that premise, across Colombia, Spain, and the United States, in languages she doesn't speak, in characters that inhabit her long after the cameras go dark.
'Narcos'. 'Jack Ryan'. 'The Night Manager'. The Platino Award for Best Actress. And now on 'ZETA', where she plays the Director of National Intelligence with a surgical coldness that unsettles precisely because you know, watching her, that behind that armor is a woman who chose to feel everything.
President of the Colombian Film Academy, architect of the stories that come after hers. Vulnerability, she says, is not surrender. It is the most sophisticated form of power.
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Photographer: José Veira
Styling: Paula Sanmiguel
Makeup: Oscar Sánchez
Wardrobe: Alitza Garcia , A Modo Mio & Agua by Agua Bendita
PR: Alexander Cubillos
