Amaia Salamanca

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.

Biography

Amaia Salamanca was born in Coslada on 28 March 1986. 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. In 2010, she played Letizia Ortiz in the TV movie Felipe y Letizia.

In the media

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

Filmography

• 2006–07 — SMS: Sin Miedo a Soñar — Paula — 185 episodes
• 2007 — Los hombres de Paco — Cristina — Guest. Season 4
• 2008–09 — Sin tetas no hay paraíso — Catalina Marcos Ruiz
• 2009 — No estás sola, Sara — Sara — TV movie
• 2010 — Felipe y Letizia [es] — Letizia Ortiz — TV movie aired as a two-part miniseries
• 2011–13 — Gran Hotel — Alicia Alarcón
• 2014–15 — Velvet — Bárbara de Senillosa
• 2016 — La embajada — Fátima
• 2017 — Velvet Colección — Bárbara de Senillosa — Reprise of role in Velvet
• 2017 — Tiempos de guerra (Morocco: Love in Times of War) — Julia Ballester
• 2022–present — Todos mienten — Sofía
• 2022–23 — Bienvenidos a Edén (Welcome to Eden) — Astrid
• 2022 — Dos años y un día — Verónica

• 2009 — Fuga de cerebros (Brain Drain) — Natalia
• 2010 — Tensión sexual no resuelta [es] — Rebeca
• 2011 — XP3D (Paranormal Xperience 3D) — Ángela
• 2012 — ¡Atraco! (Hold-Up!) — Teresa
• 2016 — Nuestros amantes (Our Lovers) — María
• 2018 — Perdida — Nadine
• 2019 — A pesar de todo (Despite Everything) — Sofía
• 2019 — Lo dejo cuando quiera (I Can Quit Whenever I Want) — Gloria
• 2022 — La piel del tambor (The Man from Rome) — Macarena Bruner
• 2025 — Siempre es invierno † (Always Winter) — Marta

Theatre

• 2009 The Marquise of O (Debut)

Accolades

• 2010 — 19th Actors and Actresses Union Awards — Best New Actress — Sin tetas no hay paraíso — Nominated