Premios Goya: Mejor actriz principal
by KSTLeo | created - 26 Jan 2015 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicGoya Awards -Spanish Cinema Academy Awards-: Best actress in a leading role
1. Malena Alterio
Actress | Aquí no hay quien viva
Malena Alterio was born on January 21, 1974 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is an actress, known for Aquí no hay quien viva (2003), Something Is About to Happen (2023) and Spanish Shame (2017).
2024: Something is about to happen
2. Laia Costa
Actress | Cinco lobitos
Laia Costa is a Spanish actress. She is known for Victoria (2015) and Newness (2017). She speaks fluent Catalan, Spanish, French and English. Laia was nominated for the 2017 BAFTA EE Rising Star Award, for her role in the critically acclaimed Victoria, for which she became the first foreign actress...
2023: Lullaby
3. Blanca Portillo
Actress | Los abrazos rotos
Blanca Portillo was born on June 15, 1963 in Madrid, Spain. She is an actress, known for Broken Embraces (2009), Volver (2006) and 7 vidas (1999).
2022: Maixabel
4. Patricia López Arnaiz
Actress | Ane
Patricia López Arnaiz was born on April 15, 1981 in Vitoria, Spain. She is an actress, known for Ane Is Missing (2020), 20,000 Species of Bees (2023) and One for All (2020).
2021: Ane is missing
5. Belén Cuesta
Actress | La Llamada
Belén Cuesta was born on January 24, 1984 in Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain. She is an actress, known for Holy Camp! (2017), Paquita Salas (2016) and The Endless Trench (2019).
2020: The endless trench
6. Susi Sánchez
Actress | La piel que habito
Susi Sánchez was born in 1955 in València, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain. She is an actress, known for The Skin I Live In (2011), Lullaby (2022) and Pain and Glory (2019).
2019: Sunday's Illness
7. Nathalie Poza
Actress | Julieta
Nathalie Poza was born on March 7, 1972 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She is an actress, known for Julieta (2016), Can't Say Goodbye (2017) and Rosa's Wedding (2020).
2018: Can't say goodbye
8. Emma Suárez
Actress | Julieta
Made her first film when she was 15 and from then on shared her time between studying dramatic art and performing in plays, films and TV productions. However it was not until the 1990s that she began to make her worthiest appearances in films directed by Julio Medem (Vacas, La Ardilla Roja and ...
X2 2017: Julieta 1997: The dog in the manger
9. Natalia de Molina
Actress | Techo y comida
Natalia de Molina was born on December 19, 1989 in Linares, Jaén, Andalucía, Spain. She is an actress, known for Food and Shelter (2015), Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed (2013) and Adiós (2019).
2016: Techo y comida
10. Bárbara Lennie
Actress | Magical Girl
Bárbara Lennie was born on April 20, 1984 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She is an actress and producer, known for Magical Girl (2014), Everybody Knows (2018) and El nino (2014).
2015: Magical girl
11. Marian Álvarez
Actress | Lo mejor de mí
Marian Álvarez was born on April 1, 1978 in Madrid, Spain. She is an actress and writer, known for Lo mejor de mí (2007), Wounded (2013) and The (Silent) War (2019).
2014: Wounded
12. Maribel Verdú
Actress | El laberinto del fauno
Maribel Verdú was born on October 2, 1970 in Madrid, Spain as María Isabel Verdú Rollán. She is an actress, known for Snow White (2012), Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and And Your Mother Too (2001). She is the older sister of twins Marina and Carlota and she has been married to Pedro Larrañaga since ...
X2 2013: Snow White 2008: Seven Billiard Tables
13. Elena Anaya
Actress | La piel que habito
Spanish actress Elena Anaya impressed the critics with her performance in Sex and Lucía (2001).
Elena was born in Palencia, Spain, on July 17th, 1975. An active child, she excelled in karate and mountain climbing. By the time she was 17 Elena knew that she wanted to channel her energy into ...
2012: The skin I live in
14. Nora Navas
Actress | Dolor y gloria
Nora Navas was born on April 24, 1975 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress, known for Pain and Glory (2019), We All Want What's Best for Her (2013) and Black Bread (2010).
2011: Black Bread
15. Lola Dueñas
Actress | Mar adentro
Lola Dueñas was born on October 6, 1971 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress, known for The Sea Inside (2004), Volver (2006) and Broken Embraces (2009).
X2 2010: Me too 2005: The sea inside
16. Carme Elias
Actress | Camino
Carme Elias was born on January 14, 1951 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress, known for Camino (2008), Puzzle (1986) and Warsaw Bridge (1990).
2009: Camino
17. Penélope Cruz
Actress | Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Known outside her native country as the "Spanish enchantress," Penélope Cruz Sánchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer, and Encarna Sánchez, a hairdresser. As a toddler, she was already a compulsive performer, re-enacting TV commercials for her family's amusement, but she decided to ...
X2 2007: Volver (To return) 1999: The girl of your dreams
18. Candela Peña
Actress | Princesas
Candela Peña was born on July 14, 1973 in Gavà, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress and director, known for Princesses (2005), All About My Mother (1999) and Take My Eyes (2003).
2006: Princesas
19. Laia Marull
Actress | Te doy mis ojos
Laia Marull was born on January 4, 1973 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress, known for Take My Eyes (2003), Fugitivas (2000) and La Xirgu (2015).
2004: Take my eyes
20. Mercedes Sampietro
Actress | Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos
Mercedes Sampietro was born on January 24, 1947 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress and director, known for Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos (1980), Common Ground (2002) and Broken Silence (2001).
2003: Common Ground
21. Pilar López de Ayala
Actress | Juana la Loca
María del Pilar López de Ayala Arroyo (Madrid, September 18, 1978) is a Spanish actress.
She began working in television series such as Menudo es mi padre (1996). From there she went to Al salir de clase (1997) and soon made the leap to film with Fill Me with Life (2000). Her character of Rocío, an ...
2002: Juana la Loca
22. Carmen Maura
Actress | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios"
Descendant of the conservative Spanish politician Antonio Maura, Carmen lead an art gallery and appeared in various roles in night- clubs. With Tigres de papel (1977) she had her first successful appearance on the movie screen and thereafter she worked at the theatre, the movies and in TV ...
X3 2001: La comunidad (Common Wealth) 1991: ¡Ay, Carmela! 1989: Women at the verge of a nervous breakdown
23. Cecilia Roth
Actress | Todo sobre mi madre
She moved to Spain with her father and her brother, Ariel Rot, in 1976 and started acting. Her first major role was in Iván Zulueta's Arrebato (1979). After appearing in Pedro Almodóvar's debut feature _Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (1980)_ she kept working with him in Labyrinth of ...
X2 2000: All about my mother 1998: Martín (Hache)
24. Victoria Abril
Actress | Átame!
This Spanish actress started studying dancing. Her teacher encouraged her to participate in her first film Obsesión (1977). After that, she was chosen by the director Narciso Ibáñez Serrador to be one of the co-hostesses of the famous TV contest Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (1972) ...
1996: Nobody will speak of us when we're dead
25. Cristina Marcos
Actress | Todos los hombres sois iguales
Cristina Marcos was born on December 19, 1963 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress, known for All Men Are the Same (1994), La regenta (1995) and Corazón loco (1997).
1995: All men are the same
26. Verónica Forqué
Actress | ¿Qué he hecho YO para merecer esto!!
Verónica Forqué was born on December 1, 1955 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She was an actress, known for What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984), Kika (1993) and Eva y Adán, agencia matrimonial (1990). She was married to Manuel Iborra. She died on December 13, 2021 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
X2 1994: Kika 1988: La vida alegre
27. Ariadna Gil
Actress | El laberinto del fauno
Born in January, 1969, she's the daughter of August Gil Matamala, a prestigious lawyer. Grew up studying singing, dancing and the violin. She even appeared occasionally singing with her two brothers in their banda named "Matamala". At 17, she appeared on the cover of an avant-garde Catalonian ...
1993: Belle Epoque
28. Silvia Munt
Actress | Pretextos
Silvia Munt was born on March 24, 1957 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress and writer, known for Pretextos (2008), In the Company of Women (2023) and Butterfly Wings (1991).
1992: Butterflu wings
29. Rafaela Aparicio
Actress | Ana y los lobos
Rafaela Aparicio was born in 1906, the daughter of a merchant ship pilot. She began her career on stage in 1931 at age 23 in the play "El conflicto de Mercedes" after having worked for a few years as a teacher. She is a symbol for the Andalusian woman, smart and happy. With El mar y el tiempo (1989)...
1990: The sea and the weather
30. Amparo Rivelles
Actress | Fuenteovejuna
Amparo Rivelles was born on February 11, 1925 in Madrid, Spain. She was an actress, known for Fuenteovejuna (1947), La fe (1947) and Esquilache (1989). She died on November 7, 2013 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
1987: Hay que deshacer la casa
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