Anna Castillo

Anna Castillo
Castillo at the 2017 Goya Awards.
Born	Anna Castillo Ferré (1993-10-09) 9 October 1993 (age 24) Spain, Barcelona
Occupation	Actress and singer
Years active	2005–present

Anna Castillo Ferré (born 9 October, 1993) is a Spanish actress. She is best known for portraying Dorita in the popular, long running Spanish soap Amar en tiempos revueltos, in which she has appeared in 215 episodes. Her film breakthrough came with the role of Alma in the drama El Olivo (2016) for which she won a Goya Award for Best New Actress

From the age of seven, Anna enrolled into various acting schools in Barcelona and Madrid, later studying at Saint Joan Bosco Horta college. Anna graduated with a bachelors of arts in 2011.

Between 2005 and 2011, Anna formed part of music group sp3, in which she was a singer and dancer. After the group retired from public performances they become part of the tv show la Família dels supers on TV3 from 2011 to 2014.

Anna's acting debut was in 2009 on the tv movie El enigma Giarcomo, on TV3, in which she played the role of Maiana.

In 2016, Anna starred as Alma in El Olivo, a role for which she won the Goya Award for Best New actress, depicting a grandaughter desperate to retrieve her beloved grandfather's olive tree in the hope that it will awaken him from his vegetative state. The movie was also named as one of three films that could be chosen as the Spanish submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not selected.