The actress Laia Costa has won the Goya for Best Actress for her role as a young woman who must simultaneously face her first motherhood and the care of elderly parents in Five beads. “I want to thank Alauda for giving birth to these little wolves and for thinking that one of them could move with my gestures,” she said in gratitude to the film’s director, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa.
He also recalled that “in these months many people have approached us to tell us that after seeing Five beads You have had the need to call your loved ones. Hopefully this award will help more calls to be made.”
Although she has a degree in public relations and marketing, she later trained in acting to end up dedicating herself entirely to her acting career. On the small screen she has appeared in series such as Shoulder strap o The time between seams. But where she has really received critical acclaim has been in his film roles. For her role in Victoria It was nominated for the Bafta and Gaudí awards, among others.
The rest of the nominees were Marina Fois by the beasts, Anna Castillo by Wild Sunflowers, Barbara Lennie by The crooked lines of God y Vicki Luengo by suro.
Blanca Portillo and Nora Navas, who have presented the award, have taken the opportunity to remember the recently deceased director Agustí Villaronga.
Previous winners
2022: Blanca Portillo- Maixabel
2021: Patricia López Arnaiz – Ane
2020: Belén Cuesta – the infinite trench
2019: Susi Sanchez – Sunday’s sickness
2018: Nathalie Beyond – I don’t know how to say goodbye
2017: Emma Suárez – Juliet
2016: Natalia de Molina – roof and food
2015: Barbara Lennie – Magical Girl
2014: Marian Alvarez – The wound
2013: Maribel Verdu – Snow White
2012: Elena Anaya- The Skin I Live In
2011: Nora Navas- Bye Black
2010: Lola Duenas – Me too
2009: Carme Elias – Camino
2008: Maribel Verdu – Seven French pool tables
2007: Penelope Cruz – Return
2006: Candela Peña – princesses
2005: Lola Duenas – deep sea
2004: Laia Marull – I give you my eyes
2003: Mercedes Sampietro – Common places
2002: Pilar Lopez de Ayala – Crazy Joan
2001: Carmen Maura – Community
2000: Cecilia Roth – Everything about my mother
1999: Penelope Cruz – The girl of your eyes
1998: Cecilia Roth Martin – Chopped
1997: Emma Suárez – The dog in the manger
1996: Victoria April – No one will talk about us when we’re dead
1995: Cristina Marcos – All men are the same
1994: Veronica Forqué – Reading
1993: Ariadna Gil- Belle Epoque
1992: Silvia Munt – butterfly wings
1991: Carmen Maura – Oh, Carmela!
1990: Rafaela Aparicio – The sea and the weather
1989: Carmen Maura – Women at the edge of a nervous attack
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