This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Segura and the second or maternal family name is Guerra.


Olga Segura is a Mexican actress and filmographer.

Biography

Olga Segura was born in Mexico City and grew up in different places: Panama, Saltillo, and Monterrey. Olga decided to start her acting studies at Casa Azul in Mexico City, while attending production seminars with executive producer Tita Lombardo (Babel, Amores Perros, Rudo y cursi).

Then, Olga moved to Los Angeles to extend her studies and attended the famous Stella Adler Studio of Acting and The Acting Corps where actors like Salma Hayek and Benicio del Toro have studied.

In Mexico, she debuted in theater with the play "Pizza Man", directed by Eduardo Arroyuelo. In 2010 she made her debut in English with the play "La Casa de Bernarda Alba" by Federico Garcia Lorca, directed by Frayne Rosanoff, at the Underground Theater in L.A.

Her first american feature film was Cellmates starring actors Stacy Keach, Tom Sizemore, Kevin Farley and Héctor Jiménez,. The movie was shown at film festivals in the United States in 2011, including a presentation on the 4th Spanish Film Festival in Mexico City and the International Film Festival of Guadalajara. The film was released in theaters in U.S. last June, and will be released in Mexico in 2013.

In 2010 she filmed Hidden Moon, from the producers of Selena and directed by Pepe Bojorquez, in which she shared the screen with Ana Serradilla, Wess Bentley, Héctor Jiménez and Osvaldo de León.

In 2011 she filmed Goats directed by Christopher Neil starring David Duchovny and Vera Farmiga, which attended the Sundance 2012.


At the end of 2011 she filmed Gabriela Tagliavini's Border Run alongside Billy Zane and Sharon Stone.

Olga Segura also founded the production company Producciones a Ciegas, along with fellow actor and friend Héctor Jiménez. The company has produced several films, including Mar Muerto with Joaquín Cosío, Aida Polepz, and Ana Ofelia Murguia, Marcelo, in which the company's founders star alongside Aarón Díaz, Mario Zaragoza, and Laura Zapata, and The Truth About Emanuel with Kaya Scodelario and Jessica Biel.

Also, she recently finished the film "The Garden of Steven", in Antigua Guatemala, directed by Chris Keener and Rob Shore. In this film, Olga plays Magdalena.

In television, her first appearance in Mexico was in the Televisa series, "El Encanto del Águila", by Pedro Torres, in which Olga acts with Poncho Herrera.