Laia Costa
Birthday: Born in 1985-02-18 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Deathday: Alive
Laia Costa (Catalan: [ˈlajə ˈkɔstə]; born February 18, 1985) is a Spanish actress. She is best known for starring in the critically acclaimed one-shot German thriller Victoria (2015), for which she received several accolades, including a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination and a German Film Award for Best Actress, making her the first foreign actress to win a Lola. She then starred in the romantic dramas Newness (2017) and Only You (2018). She also appeared in the second season of the series Polseres Vermelles (2013), in the horror thriller Piercing (2018), and in the first season of the financial drama Devils (2020). Costa gained critical acclaim in her native country for her role as Amaia in Lullaby (2022), receiving several nominations and winning accolades including the Goya Award for Best Actress.
TV Credits
Cuéntame un cuento
Character: Claudia Alvarado (Caperucita Roja)
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Bandolera
Character: Inés Flores
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Cites
Character: Paula Gutiérrez
Looking for love, sex, or just someone to move away from the loneliness, the characters in " Cites " meet face to face, after meeting online, laden with uncertainties and hopes. Based on the original format of the British series " Dates " Brian Elsley . Each episode of the series , located in Barcelona , focuses on two of these quotations , which come into play fears , secrets and expectations of its protagonists. A staff relations existing partner network around a character that cross each othe...
Cites Barcelona
Character: Paula Gutiérrez
In the 21st Century, when dating has become a matter of texting, smartphone apps and virtual experiences, couples that have met via the internet go on a series of first dates. Catalan adaptation of the 2013 British series "Dates"...
Carlos, rey emperador
Character: María de Hungría
As the life of Charles of Habsburg is told since his arrival to Spain, it can be seen how the heir to the crowns of Germany, Burgundy, the Netherlands, the Free County, Artois, Nevers and Rethel, of the territories of the Crown of Aragon and its related Italian territories, and of the territories of the Catholic Monarchs in Castile, North Africa and the Americas, matures as a statesman and gets stronger in face of menaces around him and good and bad advice from his counselors....
El tiempo entre costuras
Character: Alba
Sira Quiroga is a young Spanish dressmaker engaged to a solid suitor when a suave typewriter salesman upends her life. Spain is being upended by a civil war and the new regime's growing alliances with Nazi Germany. Sira, smart, gutsy and resourceful with a Scarlett O'Hara-like ability to whip up designer duds on a moment's notice, Sira has spunk. Sira gains and loses a small fortune, is dumped by her cad of a lover in Morocco, runs guns to get the cash to start her life anew and becomes couturie...
Toledo, cruce de destinos
Character: Aurora
The story is settled in the Middle Ages when three monotheistic religions coexisted and fought for power in the Spanish Peninsula: Christians, Muslims and Jews. The series mixes action, intrigue and love in the Castilian capital of Toledo. It shows us about all those who lived in the walls of a city full of ups and downs, labyrinths and shady hiding places....
The Wheel of Time
Character: Moghedien
Follow Moiraine, a member of the shadowy and influential all-female organization called the “Aes Sedai” as she embarks on a dangerous, world-spanning journey with five young men and women. Moiraine believes one of them might be the reincarnation of an incredibly powerful individual, whom prophecies say will either save humanity or destroy it....
Habitaciones cerradas
Character: Montserrat Espelleta
Violeta returns to Spain to supervise the works that have to turn the family mansion into a museum. The appearance of a mummified body in a room reveals a secret from the past....
Polseres vermelles
Character: Rym
Polseres vermelles and Pulseras Rojas in Spanish, is a Catalan television show. The first season aired on TV3 in 2011, with a second season planned for 2013. The show was created by Albert Espinosa and draws on his childhood experiences as a hospital patient. Espinosa and director-producer Pau Freixas had previously worked together on the film Herois. The show tells the story of a group of Catalan children and teenagers who meet as patients in the children's wing of a hospital. Themes include f...
The Diplomat
Character: Mariona Cabell
The six-part series follows Laura Simmonds and her Barcelona Consul colleague and friend Alba Ortiz as they fight to protect British nationals who find themselves in trouble in the Catalan city....
Foodie Love
Character: Ella
A pair of thirty-somethings meet through a food lover app and embark on a relationship despite past scars. Over the course of several dates, they discover where their tastes overlap and whether their passion for food, and shared distaste for foodie pretension, is enough to spark true love....
Cuidarnos entre nosotros nos hace humanos
Character: Nuria
In this miniseries based on many true stories, we experience firsthand that instinct that makes us care for others....
Devils
Character: Sofia Flores
After being implicated in a deadly scandal, a trader at a leading London bank fights to clear his name, but instead uncovers an intercontinental conspiracy masterminded by powerful forces operating in the shadows....
Soulmates
Character: Libby Ozbek
Fifteen years into the future, science has made a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet – a test that unequivocally tells you who your soulmate is....
Movie Credits
Un amor
Character: Nat
Upon settling in the countryside village of La Escapa, Nat accepts a disturbing sexual proposal by neighbour Andreas, paving the way for a self-consuming passion....
The Enchanted
Character: Irene
Irene is a woman in her thirties with a four-year-old daughter who has just separated from her husband and cannot find her place in the world. Determined to get by at whatever cost, she flees to a remote village in the mountains to try to rebuild her life, with the help of the lush vegetation, omnipresent nature and legends around her....
Y otro año, perdices
Character: Claudia
It is Grandma’s birthday, and Rosa, who is hosting the party, thinks she has it all under control. But will she be able to put up with her sisters and with her husband’s absurd obsession with the Spanish folk song? And in the end, will she be able to deal with herself in the face of all the surprises that her family has in store for her?...
The Teacher Who Promised the Sea
Character: Ariadna
Ariadna discovers that her grandfather has been searching for the remains of his father, who disappeared during the Civil War. Determined to help him, she travels to Burgos, where a mass grave is being excavated, and where he could be buried. During her stay there, she will learn the story of Antoni Benaiges, a young teacher from Tarragona who was her grandfather's teacher before the war. Through an innovative pedagogical method, Antoni inspired his students and made them a promise: to take them...
Victoria
Character: Victoria
A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret....
I Want You
Character: Chica serpiente
The sexy Gin is the new love of Hache, but this can not forget his former girlfriend, so the love triangle is inevitable....
Palm Trees in the Snow
Character: Daniela
Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo....
Don't Leave Me
Character: Laura
Laura and Luis. Two characters mired in contradiction: she wants to go back to him but attacks and rebuffs him; he doesn’t want her back, but there he is, at her place, taking off his jacket. A story of heartbreak, where a woman mistakes desire for the need to fill an endless void....
Black Snow
Character: Laura
Accused of killing his brother during adolescence, Salvador lives alone in the middle of Patagonia. Several decades later, his brother Marcos and his sister-in-law Laura, come to convince him to sell the lands they share by inheritance....
Newness
Character: Gabi Silva
In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries....
Piercing
Character: Mona
After kissing his wife and baby goodbye for a seemingly normal business trip, Reed checks himself into a hotel room to accomplish something he’s always dreamed of: the perfect murder. As his sinister plans unfold, he soon realizes he might be in over his head with a mysteriously unhinged call girl named Jackie....
Fort Ross: In Search of Adventure
Character: Lyusiya
A group of journalists are traveling through the different places and different times trying to solve historical mystery....
Life Itself
Character: Isabel Díaz
As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes....
Duck Butter
Character: Sergio
Dissatisfied with the dishonesty they see in dating, strangers Naima and Sergio make a pact to spend 24 straight hours together in an attempt to fast forward their relationship....
Maine
Character: Bluebird
Backpacking alone on the Appalachian trail, a married woman meets a younger hiker and the two strangers become inexplicably drawn to one another....
Only You
Character: Elena Aldana
A madly-in-love young couple's relationship begins to suffer when they struggle to conceive a child....
Lullaby
Character: Amaia
Amaia has just become a mother, and the challenge is even more significant than she imagined. So when her partner has to leave for several weeks because of his job, she decides to spend time with her parents in a lovely coastal village in the Basque Country and hopefully share the responsibility of looking after her baby. However, she forgot that even when one becomes a parent, one never stops being a daughter....
Las pequeñas cosas
Character: Laia
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