Laura Galán (born 1 January 1986) is a Spanish actress. She won the

Goya Award for Best New Actress The Goya Award for Best New Actress () is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. Since its inception, the award has been given to 30 actresses. At the 9th Goya Awards ceremony held in 1995, Ruth Gabriel was the first winn ...

for her performance in '' Piggy'' (2022).

Early life and education

Galán was born in

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on 1 January 1986. She dropped her studies on art history to study drama. She earned a diploma in Dramatic Art from the Arte 4 school of

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

Career

Her early career was primarily for the stage, both as an actress and in crew capacities such as assistant director. She made her feature film debut in ''

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote ''The Man Who Killed Don Quixote'' is a 2018 Adventure film, adventure-comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam and Tony Grisoni, loosely based on the 1605/1615 novel ''Don Quixote'' by Miguel de Cervantes. Gilliam tried to m ...

'' (2018). She also appeared in ''

Unknown Origins ''Unknown Origins'' () is a 2020 Spanish thriller film directed by , written by David Galán Galindo and Fernando Navarro, based on Galindo's novel of the same name, and starring Javier Rey, Verónica Echegui and Brays Efe alongside Antonio Re ...

'' (2020). Her leading performance portraying Sara in '' Piggy'' (2022) earned her a

. Another leading role as a street sweeper in revenge one-shot thriller ''

One Night with Adela ''One Night with Adela'' () is a 2023 Spanish one-shot revenge thriller film directed by Hugo Ruiz which stars Laura Galán. Plot The plot takes place in an unphotogenic Madrid. After ending her night shift, sad and deranged street sweeper Ade ...

'' (2023) ensued. She also joined the cast of historical drama series ''

Beguinas ''Beguinas'' is a Spanish period drama and romance television series starring Amaia Aberasturi and Yon González. Set in the 16th century, the plot is inspired by the communities of Beguines. It debuted on Atresplayer on 28 April 2024. Premise ...

''.

Accolades

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* 21st-century Spanish actresses Spanish film actresses 1986 births Actresses from Castilla–La Mancha People from Guadalajara, Spain Living people {{authority control