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Alba Planas Menchén (born September 10, 2000) is a Spanish actress, best known for her main role as Eva Vázquez Villanueva in the series ''
Skam España ''Skam España'' (; often stylised as ''SKAM España'') is a Spanish teen drama television series based on the Norwegian television series '' Skam''. Its four seasons originally aired from September 2018 to October 2020 on Movistar+. Premise T ...
'', the Spanish adaptation of '' Skam''. In 2017, she also appeared in the television series ''Centro médico''.


Early years

Alba Planas Menchén was born and raised in
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, Spain. She began taking acting classes at the age of 7, training in different performing arts schools. Her first steps into the world of acting were small roles in theater and the film ''
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,'' directed by
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, in which she co-starred with
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. Subsequently, Planas was selected out of a pool of numerous teenagers auditioning to play the lead role of Eva in the first season of ''
Skam España ''Skam España'' (; often stylised as ''SKAM España'') is a Spanish teen drama television series based on the Norwegian television series '' Skam''. Its four seasons originally aired from September 2018 to October 2020 on Movistar+. Premise T ...
''. Planas can also speak Spanish and English fluently.


Career

''
Skam España ''Skam España'' (; often stylised as ''SKAM España'') is a Spanish teen drama television series based on the Norwegian television series '' Skam''. Its four seasons originally aired from September 2018 to October 2020 on Movistar+. Premise T ...
'' premiered in September 2018, with Planas' character Eva as the central protagonist in the first season of the show. She continued to star in subsequent seasons in a main role until the end of the series in 2020. While appearing as Eva in ''Skam'', she continued to appear in several other short films. For her role in the short film ''16'', she was given the Best Actress Award by the Official Jury of the Ávilacine Film Festival. In 2020, she then shot the feature film ''Por los pelos'' by Nacho G. Velilla and the series ''Umbra'', filmed in
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. In 2021, she joined the cast of the first original series of
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Spain's ''
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'', along with
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. In May of the same year, she joined the cast of
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and
Mediaset España Mediaset España (), full name Mediaset España Comunicación, S.A., is a Spanish media company, controlled by the Italian company MFE - MediaForEurope. Its divisions include the generalist free-to-air TV channels Telecinco and Cuatro, thematic ch ...
's ''Días mejores'' series, where she plays Graci. ''Express'' and ''Días mejores'' were then both renewed for second seasons, with Planas continuing on in both her main roles through 2023.


Filmography


Television


Cinema


Short films


References


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Planas, Alba Spanish television actresses Spanish film actresses Living people 2000 births