Carme Elías i Boada (born 14 January 1951) is a Spanish film, television, and stage actress. She won the

Goya Award for Best Actress The Goya Award for Best Actress (Spanish: ''Premio Goya a la mejor interpretación femenina protagonista'') is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. Since its inception, the award has been given to 26 actresses. At the 1 ...

for her performance in '' Camino''.

Life

Carme Elías i Boada was born on 14 January 1951 in

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

. In 2022, she disclosed that she was in an early stage of

Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease and the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems wit ...

and that she was leaving her career, with the exception of a documentary film tracking the development of her condition.

Selected filmography

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* Spanish film actresses 1951 births Living people Actresses from Barcelona Best Actress Goya Award winners 20th-century Spanish actresses 21st-century Spanish actresses {{Spain-actor-stub