Nora Medina Chávez

Teresa • IMDb

Nora is a Professor of Ceramics, a workshop instructor, an accomplished ceramics design and pottery artist, an actress, and a mother, who lives in the central Mexican province of Querétaro.

A graduate of design and decoration at IPADE business school (Mexico), and of Ceramics at the Autonomous University of Baja, California, she first became a Professor of Ceramics in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Querétaro, Mexico, then as a Pottery Workshop Instructor in the Bachelor of Industrial Design Program at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM).

Nora has traveled far and often to study with masters and exhibit her work in both individual and collective competitions in Egypt, Chile, Italy, Turkey, China, California and Texas, as well as her home country of Mexico. And she has been honored with numerous national and international awards.

For Beyond What Remains, her first feature as a lead actress, Nora committed to and embraced months of intense rehearsal to prepare for the complex role of the street-hardened Teresa.