Jenny De La Fuente
Jenny De La Fuente
Actor
Jenny De La Fuente is an award-winning filmmaker and actor born in Mexico City and based in Austin, Texas. She holds a B.A. in Theatre and Dance from The University of Texas at Austin, where she was recognized as the 2016 Spotlight Student. She is Meisner-trained under Laurel Vouvray and is fully bilingual in English and Spanish.
Jenny was nominated for Best Actress for her performance as Martina in the award-winning short film Somewhere You Feel Free and appeared in the Amazon Prime Mexican series Un Extraño Enemigo (An Unknown Enemy). An active member of Austin's independent film community, she has performed in more than a dozen narrative projects, including New Me, Marked, Drop, Labor + Justice, and stage productions such as Some Girl(s) by Neil LaBute and Push Up.
Her commercial clients include H-E-B, Ooni Pizza, and Texas WIC, among others.
Outside of filmmaking, Jenny enjoys strength training, traveling, Barton Springs, and reading.
She is the owner of Pink Mud Productions, where she develops and produces original narrative films.
Her proudest unofficial accomplishment: getting into Berghain.
Somewhere You Feel Free
With a staggering 150k views on Youtube, Somewhere You Feel Free won the Audience Award at Austin Under The Stars, Best film at Austin Spotlight, WIFT showcase and ATX Showcase. Jenny was also nominated for best actress at both Austin Spotlight and Austin Under The Stars. The film was written, produced and stared by Jenny De La Fuente and Pink Mud Productions.
Un Extraño Enemigo
Directed by Gabriel Ripstein, An Unknown Enemy is an Amazon Prime original tv show that follows the story of the political unravel that took place in 1968 Mexico, and the events that lead to the infamous student massacre of October 2nd.
You can catch Jenny as Rebeca, in this political hit show.
