Bio
Paulina Gaitán is a Mexican actress best known for her starring role as Jahel Valenzuela in the paranormal horror television series The River, in 2012.
Gaitán started acting at age 9 and, at the age of 12, had a starring role in Luis Mandoki's Innocent Voices, about the civil war in El Salvador.
After that, she got into the U.S. industry with the lead role in Trade (2007) for director Marco Kreuzpaintner, produced by Roland Emmerich and starring Kevin Kline, as well as the independent features We Are What We Are and En Tus Manos.
That same year Gaitán starred in Little Things, directed by Andrea Martínez, produced by Bertha Navarro. She earned a nomination for an Ariel (Mexico's biggest acting award) and, in 2010, was nominated for The Lanterna University International Film Festival as Best Actress.
Gaitán was the female lead in Cary Fukunaga's feature, Sin Nombre, which won numerous awards in Sundance. Other credits include La Mitad del Mundo (2008) by Jaime Ruiz Ibáñez, Te Presento a Laura by Fez Noriega, sharing roles with Kuno Becker and Martha Higareda, and Days of Grace (2009), directed by Everardo Gou with Dolores Heredia, Tenoch Huerta and Eva Longoria.
On television she participated in XY, a series for CANAL Once, Capadocia: second season on HBO, produced by Argos, and Las Aparicio for Cadena 3.