Amaia Salamanca

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Salamanca and the second or maternal family name is Urizar.

Amaia Salamanca Urízar (born 28 March 1986) is a Spanish actress, best known for her role as Catalina Marcos in the Spanish version of the Colombian TV series Sin tetas no hay paraíso and as Alicia Alarcón in series Gran Hotel.

Amaia Salamanca
Born	Amaia Salamanca Urízar (1986-03-28) 28 March 1986 (age 39) Coslada, Community of Madrid, Spain
Occupation	Actress
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 5.75 in)

Biography

Amaia Salamanca in November 2013

Amaia Salamanca was born in Coslada on 28 March 1986.^[1] Initially, she was not planning to go into acting, but in her first audition, for SMS, the television channel TV company LaSexta gave her first acting job. In SMS, she worked with other young film and television actors such as Yon González, Aroa Gimeno, Mario Casas and María Castro.

Besides her work as an actress, Amaia works as a model for photo shoots, video clips and shows.

Career

She made a theater debut in 2009 with The Marquise of O, by Heinrich von Kleist.^[2] In 2010, she played Letizia Ortiz in the TV movie Felipe y Letizia.^[3]

In the media

In October 2020, Salamanca became an ambassador for Codorníu and the protagonist of its new campaign 'Live to celebrate'.^[4][5]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2006–07	SMS: Sin Miedo a Soñar	Paula		[6]
2007	Los hombres de Paco	Cristina	Guest. Season 4	[7][8]
2008–09	Sin tetas no hay paraíso	Catalina Marcos Ruiz		[8]
2009	No estás sola, Sara	Sara	TV movie	[9]
2010	Felipe y Letizia [es]	Letizia Ortiz	TV movie aired as a two-part miniseries	[10]
2011–13	Gran Hotel	Alicia Alarcón		[11]
2014–15	Velvet	Bárbara de Senillosa		[8]
2016	La embajada	Fátima		[12]
2017	Velvet Colección	Bárbara de Senillosa	Reprise of role in Velvet	[13]
2017	Tiempos de guerra (Morocco: Love in Times of War)	Julia Ballester		[14]
2022–present	Todos mienten	Sofía		[15]
2022–23	Bienvenidos a Edén (Welcome to Eden)	Astrid		[16]
2022	Dos años y un día	Verónica		[17]

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2009	Fuga de cerebros (Brain Drain)	Natalia		[18]
2010	Tensión sexual no resuelta [es]	Rebeca		[19]
2011	XP3D (Paranormal Xperience 3D)	Ángela		[20]
2012	¡Atraco! (Hold-Up!)	Teresa		[21]
2016	Nuestros amantes (Our Lovers)	María		[22]
2018	Perdida	Nadine		[8]
2019	A pesar de todo (Despite Everything)	Sofía		[23]
	Lo dejo cuando quiera (I Can Quit Whenever I Want)	Gloria		[24]
2022	La piel del tambor (The Man from Rome)	Macarena Bruner		[25]

Theatre

• 2009 The Marquise of O (Debut)

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2010	19th Actors and Actresses Union Awards	Best New Actress	Sin tetas no hay paraíso	Nominated	[26][27]