Nerea Elizalde Zamakona (born 18 June 1998, Bilbao, Spain) is a Spanish film, theater and television actress, singer and dancer.

Nerea Elizalde
Born
Nerea Elizalde Zamakona

(1998-06-18) 18 June 1998 (age 25)
Bilbao, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Alma materKarmelo-Solokoetxe School
Ánima Eskola School of Drama
Occupations
  • actress
  • dancer
  • singer
Years active2010–present
Notable workSi fueras tú
Goazen
RelativesUnai Elizalde (brother)
AwardsBuero Vallejo Award (2015)

She is mainly known for her role as Nerea Vidal in the Spanish television series Si fueras tú in La 1 or for playing the role as Garazi in the series Goazen in ETB 1.

Life and career edit

She studied secondary education (lower and upper) at the Karmelo-Solokoetxe School (high school) in Bilbao.

Later, she studied and trained in theater and drama in Ánima Eskola School of Drama with David Valdelvira, Marina Shimanskaya and Algis Arlauskas, training as a method actress, under the Stanislavsky-M.Chekhov-Grotowski-Vakhtangov methodology (Russian method), following the methodologies of the Russian classical school. There she coincided with the actors Carmen Climent and Julen Guerrero, together with whom she was trained.[1] She also trained with Agentinian stage director and drama teacher Juan Carlos Corazza.[2]

She was also trained in music and dance since she was little and also in singing. She studied music and music theory with Roberto Bienzobas. She studied dance with Rakel Rodríguez. She plays the trikitixa.

In 2014 she performed the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, playing the role of Helena, a theatrical production at the Campos Elíseos Theatre, directed by Spanish stage director David Valdelvira,[3][4] together with Carmen Climent and Julen Guerrero, among other cast members. The theatrical production was very well received by the public, and was staged several times between 2014 and 2015.[5] The stage production was awarded the Buero Vallejo Award (2015), in the XII edition of the awards.[6][7][8][9] She was part of the Ánima Youth Theatre.

 
The cast of the stage production A Midsummer Night's Dream at the 12th Buero Vallejo Awards Ceremony (February 2015). The director David Valdelvira, the assistant director Estela Celdrán and the cast of the play (among them, Carmen Climent, Nerea Elizalde and Julen Guerrero).

In 2015 she performed the play Dialogues between Chekhov and Bécquer, a theatrical production at the Campos Elíseos Theatre, directed by Russian actress and stage director Marina Shimanskaya, based on the works of Anton Chejov and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.

From 2010 to 2017 she worked in more than 10 plays. In 2016, she joined the Pabellón 6 youth theater company in Bilbao, where she won an award for best actress in 2016 for the micro-theatre A small step for man. She has been part of different theatrical productions in different parts of Spain, such as Último tren a Treblinka directed by Mireia Gabilondo.[10][11][12]

In 2016 she joined the young theater company of Pabellón 6 in Bilbao, with which she staged the play Romeo and Juliet directed by Ramón Barea, with Koldo Olabarri and Ainhoa Artetxe also among the cast.[13][14][15][16][17]

Since 2017, she has played the character of Nerea Vidal in the series Si fueras tú on La 1 along with Maria Pedraza and Oscar Casas.[18][19]

In 2020, she joined the cast of the ETB1 series Go!azen, playing the character of Garazi.[20][21]

Private life edit

She is the sister of the also actor Unai Elizalde.[22][23]

She was in a relationship with actor Aritz Mendiola for two years until 2019.

Filmography edit

Television edit

Year Title TV channel Role Notes Ref.
2017–present Si fueras tú La 1 Nerea
2020-2021 Go!azen 7.0 ETB1 Garazi [20]
2021-2022 Go!azen 8.0 ETB1 Garazi
2022-2023 Go!azen ETB1 Garazi [24]

Film edit

Year Title Role Notes Ref
2017 La noche de las sombras Aritz ET Geraldine
2019 The Legacy of the Bones Fernando González Molina
2019 Hondale Ainara Mentxaka
2021 Hikikomori Borja Crespo [25][26]

Stage edit

Year Title Director Role Notes Ref.
2018 Como un viento helado / Izoztutako haizea bezala Fernando Bernués [27]
2016-2018 Último tren a Treblinka / Treblinkara azken trena Mireia Gabilondo [28]
2017 Santurtzi Agurtzane Intxaurraga
2017 Gernika: 80 urte ondoren Agurtzane Intxaurraga
2016-2017 Romeo and Juliet Ramón Barea Mercutio Stage production at the Arriaga Theatre, Bilbao [11]
2015 Dialogues between Chekhov and Bécquer Marina Shimanskaya Based on the works of Anton Chejov and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
2014 A Midsummer Night's Dream David Valdelvira Helena Stage production at the Campos Elíseos Theatre / Buero Vallejo Award (2015) [6]
2013 The Tempest David Valdelvira Stage production at the Campos Elíseos Theatre
2012 El caserón del miedo/Les nits de lluna plena David Valdelvira Stage production at the Campos Elíseos Theatre [29]

Awards and nominations edit

Buero Vallejo Awards edit

Year Category For work Result Ref.
2015 Best theatrical/stage production A Midsummer Night's Dream Won [7]

See also edit

References edit

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  2. ^ "For Javier Bardem, Failure and Success Are All Essential Parts of the Process". Vanity Fair. 2022-03-18. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
  3. ^ El Correo (newspaper) (2014-06-21) [2014-06-21]. El Correo (ed.). "Today. Cultural Agenda". p. 91.
  4. ^ "Today. Cultural Agenda". El Correo. 2014-06-21. p. 91.
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  7. ^ a b Coca-Cola Foundation. National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM). (2015). "XII Buero Vallejo Awards. 2015. Coca-Cola Foundation. National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM)".
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  19. ^ 20minutos (2017-12-05). "La serie 'Si fueras tú', creada por la audiencia, salta de internet a la pequeña pantalla". www.20minutos.es - Últimas Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  20. ^ a b Zurekin (2020-06-24). "'Go!azen 7.0' is underway and three new actors will join in the new season". El Correo (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  21. ^ "Cinco horas de directo diarias y apuesta por la ficción, este otoño en ETB1". EITB (in Spanish). 2020-09-03. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  22. ^ "Unai Elizalde, Graciela Dóniz y Yeary Vázquez de Compañía Joven". EITB (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  23. ^ "Felipe Loza y Unai Elizalde hablan de Aborigenak en Radio Euskadi". EITB (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-04-08.
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