Matilde — The Whore and the Whale Character Profile

About Matilde

A dying elderly woman in a Buenos Aires hospital who shares a room with Vera. In her youth, she was a prostitute in the same establishment as Lola, bridging the past and present stories.

Character Facts

Played by

Belén Blanco

Appears in

The Whore and the Whale (2004)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (4)

• Matilde — Social Hospital Roommate — Vera (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón)

  Vera and Matilde share a hospital room during Vera's recovery and Matilde's final days.

• Matilde — Social Former Colleague — Lola (Mercè Llorens)

  Matilde and Lola worked together in the same brothel establishment during their youth.

• Matilde — Social Contemporary Peer — Emilio (Leonardo Sbaraglia)

  Matilde and Emilio were contemporaries connected through Lola's shared history and the 1930s timeline.

• Matilde — Social Industry Peer — Suárez (Miguel Ángel Solá)

  Matilde and Suárez operated within the same historical prostitution industry network in Patagonia.

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• Emilio (Leonardo Sbaraglia)
• Vera (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón)
• Jordi (Pep Munné)
• Lola (Mercè Llorens)
• Juanito (Martín Caloni)
• Orestes (Pompeyo Audivert)
• Suárez (Miguel Ángel Solá)
• El Pibe Pedro (Nicolás Tognola)
• Ernesto (Edward Nutkiewicz)
• Meme (Carola Reyna)
• La Foca (Ricardo Orri)
• Prostituta (Olga Sokolinskaja)