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3 unusual facts about Colombiana


Amandla Stenberg

In 2011, she appeared in her first feature film, Colombiana, as a younger version of Zoe Saldana's character.

She is best known for her portrayal of young Cataleya in Colombiana and Rue in The Hunger Games.

Damien Walters

Walters has had the role of stunt double or stunt performer in the films: Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Ninja Assassin, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Eagle, I Am Number Four, Blitz, Colombiana, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and Captain America: The First Avenger.


Abel González Chávez

In 1988 he won the Postobón National Award for his documentary "Campeón a la colombiana, campeón a la americana" (Colombian champion, American champion), where he portrayed the differences in resources and means between an American boxing champion as Sugar Ray Leonard and the Colombian boxing champion Fidel Bassa.

Beto Benites

In 2011 he played the part of Don Luis Sandoval, the drug lord in Olivier Megaton's film Colombiana, starring Zoe Saldana.

David Belle

Belle has also worked on Babylon A.D. with Vin Diesel, Prince of Persia, with Jake Gyllenhaal, Colombiana with Zoe Saldana, and The Family, with Robert De Niro.

Dorila Antommarchi

Dorila Antommarchi de Rojas (born 1850s, Cúcuta, Colombia) published numerous poems and sometimes used the pseudonym Colombiana.

Mariano Ospina Pérez

Ospina created the Colombian Petroleum Company ECOPETROL (Empresa Colombiana de Petroleos), the Telecommunications Company TELECOM, the Social Security Administration ISS (Instituto de Seguro Social), the petroleum pipeline from Barrancabermeja and Puerto Berrío, the hydroelectric dams of Sisga, Saldaña and Neusa, and established the Colombian Economic Development Plan under the direction of the Economic Mission of Professor Lauchlin Currie.


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