Lucía Bedoya

Lucía Bedoya is a Colombian stage and screen actress and model.

Career beginnings Bedoya attended the University of Valle, where she studied dramatic arts, from 2012. She was still a student whilst filming Being Impossible in 2018. Before drama, she studied several other subjects, including psychology, but clicked immediately with drama. In 2015 she traveled to the United States to work on Broadway and study at a musical theatre workshop led by Luis Salgado. In 2016 she was profiled and interviewed by Cali TV station Canal 2, as a model and drama student, where she said she was mostly a freelance model, a job she didn't expect, and was "hard to define" because her identity is based on many things.

In 2017, Bedoya and other Valle students performed at a university theatre festival in Turkey, with organizers saying their production was the best of the festival.

Her first feature film was the 2018 Being Impossible, in which she played the lead role of Ariel, a young woman who discovers she was born intersex. She has said that it was "a dream" to play the character, and saying that "rather than acting based on the character's sexual difference, I acted based on what makes each of us different, and how at some point in our lives we have all felt different". She has been widely commended for her performance in the film: Scott Braid highly praised the "incredible performance of smouldering intensity" that she gives, Paolo Kagaoan criticized aspects of the film but also compliments Bedoya's performance, saying that her talent makes cliché shots "palatable", with Carlos Loureda also giving a strong review, calling her "an actress who overflows the big screen". She won the Best Actress award at the 2019 Venezuelan Film Festival.