Keyla Wood
- Actress
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Keyla Wood was born on August 30th, in
Mexico City. Keyla, is her first name and the name that has
followed her along her whole life. She has freely admitted that she
was totally moved and touched by opera at the time that she was 6 years
old, and since then has been one of her passion in life. She did study
singing for 9 years. When she was 10 she begin her instruction in arts,
in a school in Mexico city run by INBA. There she discovered her
aptitude for dancing and her full infatuation for acting. When she was
16 she started college, at UNAM, and she was fully convinced of her
vocation to be and actress and her nature as an artist and she feel
ready to pursue acting seriously. During her university acting period
she was conforming a lot of the theatrical cast of her generation. Also
she begin experience several artistic fields, music was one of them.
She did appear in several commercials during her teens and by the end
of her time in college she had her first opportunity to work into film
industry in Frida (2002) by the side of
Salma Hayek. She worked at the show of
Si Graham Norton (2002),with
Graham Norton and studied drama, in
London. In Mexico she worked in several soap operas in Tv
Azteca a long the years, and in Telemundo Latin American Brodcaster
network in the TV drama
Ladrón de Corazones (2003).
In 2006 she was cast by Laura Richard to
be part of the project Breached (2005), by Laura Richard a
graduated film work for NYU, awarded and screened in Tribeca Film
Festival and several more. She acted in Mariposa a film
by Elvira Carrizal from Columbia University
town. She has performed at the Comedy Store in L.A. and acted off-Broadway theater, at the Producers club on the 44th st and in her native Mexico she was constantly working on theatre. Her work in independent Cinema has been awarded and shown in several film festivals. El Deseo, by
Marie Benito, at Cannes Film Festival in the official competition 2009.
Her worked has been showcased in several International Film Festivals like FICA, FICG, FICG, FICM, CANNES, TFF.
2008 she has the award by the Mexican National Associate Press
for an outstanding performance 2006 in Mexico. Her education
includes a bachelors degree in drama and she is fully bilingual Spanish and English, and fluent in Italian.
She is a full lover of al the topics that enrich
her existence, and journey though this life. She's a common face in Mexican television and she moved to Los Angeles since 2017.
Lately she has been working creatively in the production department of several projects. She has also been working in Mexico as an acting coach.
2004 She also created a Meditation project about Chakras
points.