Laia Costa
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Laia Costa at 65th Berlin International Film Festival 2015
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| Born |
Laia Costa Bertrán 18 February 1985 Barcelona, Spain |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2011–present |
| Known for | Victoria |
Laia Costa (born 18 February 1985, Barcelona, Catalonia) is a Catalan actress who has worked in Spain, Russia, Germany, Argentina and United States.
In January 2017, Laia Costa was nominated for the 2017 BAFTA EE Rising Star Award, for her role in the critically acclaimed Victoria, for which she became the first foreign actress to win a Lola, the biggest award by German Academy of Cinema, won Best Actress at the Gaudí Awards by the Catalan Academy of Cinema and was also nominated Best European Actress in the European Film Awards.
Costa has premiered in the Sundance Film Festival Newness, the latest film from Drake Doremus where she shares the spotlight with Nicholas Hoult.
Her first movie in Argentina, Nieve negra, has just been released, with Ricardo Darín, and has also just finished another American film, Maine, where she shares top billing with Thomas Mann. She is shooting Life Itself by Dan Fogelman next to Oscar Isaac, Samuel L. Jackson and Antonio Banderas.
The New York Times includes her in 2015’s "Breakthrough Performances of the Fall Season".
In TV she has starred in Cites, the Spanish remake of the British TV series Dates, and Polseres Vermelles, winner of the International EMMY Award for Best Kids TV Series, which has been adapted by Steven Spielberg for North America as Red Band Society.
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