Amaia Salamanca Urízar (born 28 March 1986) is a Spanish

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, 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

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on 28 March 1986. Initially, she was not planning to go into acting, but in her first

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, 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

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, Aroa Gimeno,

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and María Castro. Besides her work as an actress, Amaia works as a

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for

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s, video clips and shows.

Career

She made a theater debut in 2009 with ''

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'', by

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. In 2010 she played

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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

Theatre

* 2009 ''

'' (Debut)

Accolades

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Salamanca, Amaia 1986 births People from Salamanca Living people Spanish television actresses Spanish female models Actresses from the Community of Madrid Spanish film actresses Spanish people of Basque descent