Yalitza Aparicio has issued the below reaction in response to her Academy Award nomination in the Leading Actress category.

She is nominated for her breakout role as Cleo in Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA, which was the recipient of a total of 10 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. Aparicio’s co-star Marina De Tavira was also nominated in the Supporting Actress category. 

Born in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca in 1993, ROMA is Aparicio’s first acting role after attending an open casting for the film in her home town.

Statement from Yalitza Aparicio:

From the very first casting call to this morning, my ROMA journey has been extraordinary.

As a daughter of a domestic worker and an indigenous woman myself, I am proud this movie will help those of us who feel invisible be seen. I am eternally grateful to the Academy for recognizing ROMA and am honored to be part of Alfonso’s vision. Congratulations to Alfonso, the entire cast and crew, and my dear friend Marina De Tavira.

I am so humbled and honored. Thank You.

The most personal project to date from Academy Award®-winning director and writer Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien), ROMA follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil of the 1970s. Cuarón’s first project since the groundbreaking Gravity in 2013.

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