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Byline: Christopher Kelly
DALLAS _ Catalina Sandino Moreno. Remember the name. Come next Oscar season, you're going to be hearing it a lot.
Yes, August might be early for such predictions. But this one you can take to the bank: Moreno _ a 23-year-old Colombian woman making her acting debut in the drama "Maria Full of Grace" _ is going to be one of the five nominees for the Best Actress Oscar come January.
A lot of blustery hype? Not when you consider that this time last year another unknown actress was dazzling critics and audiences, a little girl named Keisha Castle-Hughes, in the movie "Whale Rider." Castle-Hughes went on to become this year's biggest surprise nominee. Hollywood loves its come-out-of-nowhere, up-from-your-bootstraps, a-star-is-born-overnight sagas, and Catalina Sandino Moreno's is especially gripping.
She was studying advertising in Bogota when a friend told her about an open-call audition. "I just went because I was very curious to see this…