Angie Cepeda Colombian Actress Known for Los Protegidos

Early life

Angie Cepeda was born on 2 August 1974 in Cartagena, Colombia, and grew up in Barranquilla. After her parents divorced she lived with her mother and her older sisters. When she realised she wanted to act, she moved to Bogotá and began taking drama courses there.

Career

While she was starting her studies in Bogotá, Cepeda was hired for a series of advertisements for a beer company. She then took small roles in several Colombian soap operas and films. Her earliest listed screen credit is the film Ilona Arrives with the Rain, from 1996. A part in the telenovela Las Juanas brought her to the attention of television producers, who offered her roles in prime-time programmes. The first of these was the title role in Luz María (1998), in which she appeared with Christian Meier and Rosalinda Serfaty. In 2000 she played Fiorella Morelli Flores de Mejía Guzmán in Pobre diabla, alongside Salvador del Solar and Santiago Magill.

Her work in cinema began when the Peruvian director Francisco Lombardi asked her to play a character known as La Colombiana in Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (1999). In the years that followed she appeared in Destiny Has No Favorites and Suddenly Paradise (both 2003), The Hidden and Love for Rent (both 2005), and El Muerto (2007). She took part in the television series Vientos de agua in 2006, and in 2007 she was in the cast of Love in the Time of Cholera, the title of hers that is covered in the most language editions of Wikipedia.

In 2010 she had the first billing in the film For the Good of Others, appeared in With or Without Love, and played Jimena García in the series Los Protegidos, where she was the second billed cast member. Further credits include Heleno (2011), A Night in Old Mexico (2013), Elvira I Will Give You My Life But I'm Using It (2014), Wild Horses (2015), The Seed of Silence (2015) and the series 2091 (2016). She is also credited in Women of Mafia 2, in which she plays a character named Aida. In 2021 she voiced Julieta Madrigal in the English, Spanish and Italian-language versions of the Disney animated musical Encanto.

In total, 23 titles are listed under her name, made up of films and television series released between 1996 and 2025. The most recent is the film Astronauta, which came out in 2025. Her roles in Los Protegidos, Wild Horses, For the Good of Others and Elvira I Will Give You My Life But I'm Using It are among those she is most often identified with in reference listings. The actor Robert Duvall appears in two of the titles on her list.

Recognition

Reference sources associate Cepeda most closely with the telenovela Pobre diabla and the films Captain Pantoja and the Special Services and Love in the Time of Cholera. She has 535,252 followers on Instagram as of 11 October 2026. No award wins or nominations are listed for her.

Personal life

Cepeda has no marriage or children on record.