Laia Manzanares Tomàs (born 30 March 1994) is a Spanish actress best known for her role as the cheerleader and love interest in
Tame Impala's 2015 music video for "
The Less I Know the Better
"The Less I Know the Better" is a song released by the Australian music project Tame Impala on 29 November 2015 as the fourth and final single from their third studio album, ''Currents''. The song's accompanying music video mixes hand-drawn anim ...
", which became a
sleeper hit and
cult classic in the late 2010s. She is also known for playing the role of Ukrainian student Oksana Casanoves in the Spanish television series ''
Merlí''.
Early life
Laia Manzanares Tomàs was born in 1994, to a
Valencian father and
Catalan
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
* 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...
mother.
She was educated at the Institut Públic XXV Olimpiada high school and the Col·legi de Teatre, for two years, in Barcelona.
Manzanares was inspired to act professionally after watching
Uma Thurman as
Beatrix "The Bride" Kiddo in
Quentin Tarantino's ''
Kill Bill: Volume 1'' and being impressed by the character's strength of personality.
Hoping to inspire others in the same way, Manzanares expressed her hope to work with high school or elementary school students to help instill self confidence in young people going through the "most vulnerable" periods in their lives.
Between castings she worked as a waitress and had she not become an actress she would have studied psychology.
Career
In the music video for "The Less I Know the Better", the surrealist Tame Impala music video, she is a cheerleader and the lover of a high school basketball player who is seduced by the gorilla mascot "Trevor".
In television roles she has appeared in series such as ''Merlí'', ', ''
El día de mañana'', ''Ray'', and ''Matar al Padre''. In theatre roles, she has portrayed
Amanda Todd
Amanda Michelle Todd (November 27, 1996 – October 10, 2012) was a 15-year-old Canadian student and victim of cyberbullying who hanged herself at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. Before her death, Todd posted a video on YouTube ...
(a Canadian teen who committed suicide due to cyberbullying and revenge pornography) in a dramatization called ''Amanda T.'' for
TNC's youth theatre.
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Filmography
Television
Theatre
Awards
Fugaz Awards
International Film Festival of Wales
References
1994 births
Living people
Actresses from Barcelona
21st-century Spanish actresses
Spanish television actresses
Spanish film actresses
Spanish people of Catalan descent
External links
* {{IMDb name, nm8298041