Laura Santullo

Laura Santullo is a Uruguayan writer, screenwriter, director, novelist, and actress born in Montevideo in 1970, residing between Uruguay and Mexico.[2][3] She collaborates closely with director Rodrigo Plá, her partner, adapting her own stories on themes of motherhood and class differences into acclaimed films like The Zone (2007), The Delay (2012), and A Monster with a Thousand Heads (2015), which have won multiple Ariel Awards.[1][2][3] She has published six novels, including El Otro Tom (2018), and received literary recognition such as an honorable mention in Uruguay's 2007 Annual Literature Prize.[2][3]