Ingrid García-Jonsson

Ingrid García-Jonsson (born 6 September 1991) is a Swedish-Spanish actress. She was nominated to the Goya Award for Best New Actress for her performance in Beautiful Youth (2014).^[1]

Ingrid García-Jonsson
Born	Ingrid García Jonsson (1991-09-06) 6 September 1991 (age 33) Skellefteå, Sweden
Years active	1995–present

Early life

Born in northern Sweden to a Spanish father and a Swedish mother, García-Jonsson moved with her parents to Seville in Spain at a young age. García-Jonsson studied architecture, and first worked as a waitress in a bar.^[2]

Career

García-Jonsson made her film debut as in Okupados (2011).^[3][4] She received her first major role in Beautiful Youth,^[5] which premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and received good reviews.^[6]

García-Jonsson became well known as an actress in independent films, and was nominated to Feroz Awards, Forqué Awards, Gaudí Awards, and Goya Awards.^[7]

In the film Knight and Day (2010), García-Jonsson was the stuntwoman for Cameron Diaz.^[8]

García-Jonsson played Amalia along Carlos Areces and Oscar Martínez in Me, Myself and My Dead Wife (2019), directed by Santiago Amodeo.^[9] She also appeared in political satire comedy The Little Switzerland (2019), portraying Nathalie, a secretary of the ayuntamiento of Tellería (a Castilian municipality surrounded by the Basque Country) who is keen on the village joining the Swiss Confederation.^[10][11] She featured as Eva alongside Verónica Forqué, Rosa Maria Sardà and David Verdaguer in So My Grandma's a Lesbian! [es] (2019) by Ángeles Reiné.^[12][13][14]

In October 2020, she began shooting Álex de la Iglesia's slasher Venicephrenia, portraying Isa, a Spanish tourist in Venice about to get married.^[15][16] In July of the same year, she was reported to have joined the shooting of workplace comedy film Camera Cafe, la película [es].^[17]

In 2024, she was announced to have been cast to portray singer Tamara (later known as Yurena) in the streaming series Superestar.^[18]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2011	Okupados		Feature film debut	[19]
2014	Eryka's Eyes	Eryka		[20]
	Hermosa juventud (Beautiful Youth)	Natalia		[21]
	Todos tus secretos			[22]
2015	Sweet Home	Alicia		[23]
	Berserker	Mireia		[24]
2016	Toro	Estrella		[25]
	Acantilado (The Cliff)	Cordelia		[26]
	Gernika (Guernica)	Marta		[27]
2017	Zona hostil (Rescue Under Fire)	Cabo Sánchez ('Corporal Sánchez')		[28]
2018	En las estrellas [ca]			[29]
	Ana de día (Ana by Day)	Ana / Nina		[30]
2019	Love Me Not [ca]	Salomé		[31]
	Taxi a Gibraltar (Taxi to Gibraltar)	Sandra Sánchez		[32]
	La pequeña Suiza (The Little Switzerland)	Nathalie		[33]
	Salir del ropero [es] (So My Grandma's a Lesbian!)	Eva		[14]
	Yo, mi mujer y mi mujer muerta (Me, Myself and My Dead Wife)	Amalia		[34]
2020	El arte de volver (The Art of Return)	Ana		[35]
	Explota, explota (My Heart Goes Boom!)	María		[36]
2021	Veneciafrenia (Venicephrenia)	Isa		[15]
2022	Nosotros no nos mataremos con pistolas (We Won't Kill Each Other with Guns)	Blanca		[37]
	Camera Café, la película [es]	Déborah		[38]
2023	The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die	Brand		[39]
	Un amor	Lara		[40]
2024	Una ballena (A Whale)			[41]

TV series

• Un cuento perfecto (2023) as Candela^[42]
• Instinto (2019) as Carol
• Limbo (2018) as Lidia Ronco
• Apaches (2015–2017) as Miranda
• Aliados (2014) as Bianca Rock
• Tierra de lobos (2013) as Pepi
• Con pelos en la lengua (2013) as Sara
• Los Cuervo: ¡Pillados! (2011) as Fan Pop4You

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2015	20th Forqué Awards	Best Actress	Beautiful Youth	Nominated	[43][44]
	2nd Feroz Awards	Best Main Actress in a Film		Nominated	[45]
	7th Gaudí Awards	Best Actress		Nominated	[46]
	29th Goya Awards	Best New Actress		Nominated	[47]
2024	32nd Actors and Actresses Union Awards	Best Film Actress in a Minor Role	Un amor	Nominated	[48][49]