Nerea Barros

Spanish actress

Nerea Barros
Barros at the 2023 Goya Awards
Born	Nerea Barros Noya (1981-05-12) 12 May 1981 (age 42) Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1998-present

Nerea Barros Noya (born 12 May 1981) is a Spanish actress from Galicia.

Biography

Nerea Barros was born in Santiago de Compostela on 12 May 1981.^[1] She was a nurse at the Hospital Clínico de Santiago de Compostela, a job she combined with small roles as a film and theater actress.^[2] She made her film debut at the age of sixteen, in 1997, in the film Nena, by the Galician director Xavier Bermúdez,^[3] with whom she collaborated again in 2008, in the film Rafael. In 2009, she obtained her first relevant role on the small screen, in Matalobos, broadcast by Televisión de Galicia. It was not, however, until 2013 when she gained some popularity due to her participation in El tiempo entre costuras, Antena 3 series, the adaptation of the novel by María Dueñas.^[4]

She portrayed Rocío in Marshland (2014), winning the Goya Award for Best New Actress for her performance.^[5]

In 2020, she was one of the protagonists in the film La isla de las mentiras, directed by Paula Cons, which tells the fictional story of three heroines who risked their lives to save the passengers of the "Santa Isabel," a ship bound for Argentina that sank off the island of Sálvora in Galicia.^[6]

Filmography

Cinema

Year	Film	Role
1997	A nena	Eli
2001	Bellas durmientes	Jane
2004	León y Olvido	Sales assistant
2008	Rafael	Aurora
2010	Volver a casa	Sofía
2013	O ouro do tempo	Nerea
2014	La isla mínima	Rocío
2016	Sol y Luna	Sol
2020	La isla de las mentiras	María
2020	Voces	Sofia

Television series

Year	Series	Channel	Role	Notes	Ref.
2007	MIR	Telecinco	Nerea	1 episode
2009	O Nordés	TVG	-	1 episode
2009–10	Matalobos	TVG	Sandra	10 episodes
2012	Padre Casares	TVG	Nerea	3 episodes
2013	El secreto de Puente Viejo	Antena 3	Eudosia	1 episode
2013	El tiempo entre costuras	Antena 3	Beatriz Oliveira	1 episode
2015–16	El Príncipe	Telecinco	Laura Hidalgo	8 episodes
2018	Apaches	Antena 3	Silvia	5 episodes
	ULTIMO 5 – Caccia ai Narcos	Canale 5	Laura Aguilar	2 episodes
	El sabor de las margaritas	TVG	Pamela / Ana	6 episodes
2019	Días de Navidad	Netflix	Valentina	1 episode
2022	La novia gitana (The Gypsy Bride)	Atresplayer Premium	Elena Blanco
2023	La red púrpura (The Purple Network)		Elena Blanco		^[7]

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2015	29th Goya Awards	Best New Actress	Marshland	Won	^[8]
2023	10th Feroz Awards	Best Main Actress in a Series	The Gypsy Bride	Nominated	^[9]

References

^ Lozano, Patricia (12 December 2020). "Nerea Barros, de actriz a enfermera en el confinamiento: "Estaba muy ansiosa y pensé: 'Deja de quejarte y actúa'". Expansión.
^ "Nerea Barros: "Me diagnosticaron Zika en enero"". El Mundo (in Spanish). 12 March 2016.
^ "Nerea Barros: «Ser gallega fue definitivo para que me dieran este papel»". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 26 January 2014.
^ "¿Quién es Nerea Barros?" (in Spanish). eleconomista.es. 23 September 2014.
^ "La actriz Nerea Barros anima a las mujeres a ser "protagonistas" de su vida". 20minutos.es (in Spanish). 8 March 2015.
^ "El duro rodaje de 'La isla de las mentiras' contado por su directora, Paula Cons". ElPeriódico (in Spanish). 28 July 2020.
^ "Atresplayer pone fecha de estreno a 'La red púrpura', la continuación de 'La novia gitana'". Sport. 14 September 2023.
^ "Nerea Barros, Mejor Actriz Revelación por La isla mínima". Europa Press (in Spanish). 7 February 2015.
^ "Premios Feroz 2023 | Palmarés completo: empatan 'As bestas' y 'Cinco lobitos' en cine y 'La ruta' y 'No me gusta conducir' en series". Cinemanía. 29 January 2023 – via 20minutos.es.