Victoria Luengo

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

Victoria Luengo Saez (born 7 April 1990), also known as Vicky Luengo, is a Spanish film, television and stage actress. She gained recognition for her performance in the television series Riot Police (2020).^[1]

Victoria Luengo
Luengo in 2020
Born	Victoria Luengo Saez (1990-04-07) 7 April 1990 (age 34) Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Other names	Vicky Luengo
Occupation	Actress

She has since featured in films such as Girlfriends (2021), The Replacement (2021), Cork (2022), The Room Next Door (2024), and Family Affairs (2024), as well as in television series such as Red Queen.

Life and career

Early life and education

Victoria Luengo Saez was born on 7 April 1990 in Palma de Mallorca,^[2][3][4][5] but after four years she moved with her mother and brother to Barcelona,^[6] where she was raised.^[7] She took an interest in acting at a young age, and she got her first role in a stage play at barely 14 years old.^[7] She studied acting, dance and singing at the Barcelona's Memory School.^[7]

Career beginnings

She made her television debut as a background actress in Rumors (2006), later obtaining larger television roles in Hospital Central and La pecera de Eva.^[7] In 2013, she joined the theatrical cast of Una historia catalana, a play staged at the National Theatre of Catalonia.^[7]

She starred as lead character in the French TV movie Carmen [fr] (2011), directed by Jacques Malaterre,^[6] also appearing in films such as La Trinca: la biografía no autorizada [es] (2011), Born (2014; for which she won a Best Actress Award at the 2015 New York City International Film Festival),^[8] Barcelona, noche de invierno [es] (2015), The Laws of Thermodynamics (2018) and I'm Being Me (2020).^[6][9]

Breakthrough and consolidation

She had a breakout performance in the television series Riot Police,^[10] aired in 2020 on Movistar+. She portrayed Laia Urquijo, an Internal Affairs police officer who must investigate the potential misbehaviour committed by a squad of riot police officers during an eviction.^[11]

On 31 August 2023, Luengo debuted with the single-role of Tessa in monologue play Prima Facie at Madrid's Teatros del Canal,^[12][13] clinching an Actors and Actresses Union Award and a Talía Award for the role.^[14] During an interview to Cadena SER, she expressed her preference to be known to the public by her real name, Victoria, rather than Vicky, which she adopted in her early career because she felt back then that Victoria was a name for an old person.^[15]

Luengo and Hovik Keuchkerian during a break in the shooting of Red Queen in Madrid

Luengo starred as high-IQ investigator Antonia Scott in the Prime Video thriller series Reina Roja, based on the novel by Juan Gómez-Jurado.^[16] Released in February 2024, the series received mixed reviews,^[16] but Luengo landed an Iris Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance and the series was renewed for a third season before the release of season 2.^[17][18]

In September 2024, she was reported to have signed on to star alongside Javier Bardem in Rodrigo Sorogoyen's The Beloved.^[14]

Filmography

Film

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2014	Born [ca]	Marianna		[8]
2015	Barcelona, noche de invierno [es]	Olga		[19]
2017	Blue Rai	Lola		[20]
2018	Las leyes de la termodinámica (The Laws of Thermodynamics)	Eva		[21]
2020	Hogar (The Occupant)	Natalia		[22]
2021	Chavalas (Girlfriends)	Marta		[23]
	El sustituto (The Replacement)	Eva Vidal		[24]
2022	Suro (Cork)	Elena		[25]
2024	The Room Next Door	Fred's wife		[26]
	Verano en diciembre (Family Affairs)	Paloma		[27]
TBA	El ser querido † (The Beloved)		Filming	[28]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2010	El pacto [es]	Merche	Aired as miniseries	[29]
2010	La pecera de Eva	Ari		[7]
2011	Carmen [fr]		TV movie	[6]
2011	Homicidios	María Losada		[30]
2013–2017	La Riera [ca]	Míriam Ambrós Santacana		[31]
2019	Secretos de Estado [es]	Raquel	13 episodes	[7]
2020	Madres. Amor y vida	Natalia		[32]
2020	Antidisturbios (Riot Police)	Laia Urquijo		[11]
2021	Historias para no dormir (Stories to Stay Awake)	Eva	Episode: "El doble"	[33]
2024	Reina Roja (Red Queen)	Antonia Scott		[34]
	Yo, adicto (I, Addict)			[35]

Accolades

Luengo receiving an award at the CiBRA Festival in Toledo in 2022

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2021	26th Forqué Awards	Best Actress in a Series	Riot Police	Nominated	[36]
	8th Feroz Awards	Best Main Actress in a Series		Nominated	[37]
	68th Ondas Awards	Best Actress in Spanish Fiction (TV)		Won	[38]
	71st Fotogramas de Plata	Best Television Actress		Won	[39]
2022	14th Gaudí Awards	Best Actress	Girlfriends	Nominated	[40][41]
2023	15th Gaudí Awards	Best Actress	Cork	Won	[42]
	37th Goya Awards	Best Actress		Nominated	[43]
2024	32nd Actors and Actresses Union Awards	Best Stage Actress in a Leading Role	Prima Facie	Won	[44]
	2nd Talía Awards	Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Text Theater		Won	[45]
	27th Max Awards	Best Actress		Nominated	[46]
2025	26th Iris Awards	Best Actress	Red Queen	Nominated	[47]
	33rd Actors and Actresses Union Awards	Best Television Actress in a Leading Role		Pending	[48]
		Best Film Actress in a Minor Role	The Room Next Door	Pending