Clara Lago

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Lago and the second or maternal family name is Grau.

Clara Lago
Clara Lago in 2017 during the 31st Goya Awards
Born
Clara Lago Grau

(1990-03-06) 6 March 1990 (age 34)
Torrelodones, Community of Madrid, Spain
OccupationActress
Years active2000–present
PartnerDani Rovira (2013–2019)

Clara Lago Grau (born 6 March 1990) is a Spanish actress.

Career

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Clara Lago Grau was born on 6 March 1990 in Torrelodones,[1][2] Community of Madrid. Lago made her feature film debut in Miserable Life (2000),[3] providing the voice to Bea.[4] She also joined the cast of Compañeros.

In 2002 she starred in Carol's Journey, a film directed by Imanol Uribe for which Lago was nominated for a Goya Award for Best New Actress.[5]

She won the 'Best New Talent in Spanish Cinema' awarded by L'Oreal in the 2008 56th San Sebastian Film Festival.

Clara won the Shooting Stars Award by the ICAA for the European Film Academy and the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011 for her role in the film The Hidden Face.

In November 2012 she played Eva in Fin, along Maribel Verdú and Daniel Grao.[6]

In 2014, Lago starred in Spanish Affair. The film broke Spanish box-office records, becoming the top-grossing Spanish title of all time with more than $75 million in sales and sitting.[7] Then she portrayed in the stage play La venus de las pieles, directed by David Serrano de la Peña.[8]

Lago appears in the 2015 film Extinction[9] along with Matthew Fox and Jeffrey Donovan, in an adaptation of Juan de Dios Garduño's bestseller book Y pese a todo.

In 2017 she dubbed Cleopatra in the video game Assassin's Creed: Origins.[10] It is the first time she participated in the dubbing of a video game.[11]

Personal life

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In 2013, Lago began a relationship with her Ocho Apellidos co-star Dani Rovira.[12] The couple officially broke up in 2019 after 5 years of dating.[13] Lago speaks fluent English and Spanish. In March 2017 she started a vegan diet due to an ethical and environmental decision that gives her "peace of mind", she also says that she feels "full of energy" and is "perfect" in health.[14]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2000 Terca vida (Miserable Life) Bea Voice. Feature film debut [15][4]
2002 El viaje de Carol (Carol's Journey) Carol [16]
2004 La vida que te espera (Your Next Life) Genia [17]
2006 Arena en los bolsillos [es] Elena [18]
2007 El club de los suicidas [es] Laura [19]
2008 El juego del ahorcado (The Hanged Man) Sandra [20]
2010 El mal ajeno (For the Good of Others) Ainhoa [21]
2011 Primos (Cousinhood) Clara [22]
2011 La cara oculta (The Hidden Face) Belén [23]
2012 Tengo ganas de ti (I Want You) Gin [24]
2012 Fin (The End) Eva [25]
2013 Parents [de] Isabel
2013 ¿Quién mató a Bambi? (Who Killed Bambi?) Mati [26]
2014 Ocho apellidos vascos (Spanish Affair) Amaia Zugasti [27]
2014 Against the Jab Pénelope
2015 Extinction Woman
2015 Ahora o nunca Tatiana
2015 Ocho apellidos catalanes (Spanish Affair 2) Amaia Zugasti Reprise of her role in Ocho apellidos vascos [27]
2016 Al final del túnel (At the End of the Tunnel) Berta [28]
2016 Órbita 9 (Orbiter 9) Helena [29]
2018 The Commuter Eva [30]
2019 Gente que viene y bah (In Family I Trust) Bea [31]
2019 El cuento de las comadrejas (The Weasel's Tale) Bárbara Otamendi [32]

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2000–02 Compañeros Desirée 15 episodes
2000 Manos a la obra Estela 1 episode
2004–07 Hospital Central Candela Rodríguez 23 episodes
2007–08 Los Hombres de Paco Carlota Fernández 19 episodes
2008 LEX Eli Estrada 16 episodes
2010 Las Chicas de Oro Lucía 1 episode
2014 El corazón del océano Ana de Rojas 6 episodes
2016 Web Therapy Inés
2017 The Librarians Estrella 1 episode
2019–20 The Neighbor Lola 10 episodes
TBD Limbo Sofía [33]
2024 Clanes (Gangs of Galicia) Ana González Soriano [34]

Notes

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  1. ^ Faginas, Sandra (9 May 2021). "Clara Lago: "Dani y yo llevamos separados dos años, pero nuestro amor es incondicional"". La Voz de Galicia.
  2. ^ "Los apellidos de Clara Lago y Dani Rovira". EiTB. 16 June 2015.
  3. ^ Durán Manso, Valeriano (2022). "El pasado reciente escolar en el cine español actual: una mirada a las películas protagonizadas por niños (1996-2011)" (PDF). Tempo e Argumento. 14 (37). Florianópolis: Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina: 11.
  4. ^ a b Galán Caballero, Javier; Abad Liñán, José M. (12 November 2016). "Estos son los 100 actores más taquilleros del cine español". El País.
  5. ^ "Candidatos a los Premios Goya 2002". El Mundo (in Spanish). Mundinteractivos, S.A. 2002. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  6. ^ "'Fin' gana el 'Méliès de Plata' en el 'Imagine Fantastic Film Fest' de Amsterdam". Antena 3 (in Spanish). Madrid: Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación, S.A. 24 June 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  7. ^ ""Spanish Affair" Becomes the Top-Grossing Spanish Title of All Time". Hispanically Yours. 30 April 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  8. ^ Martínez, Edurne (3 May 2014). "La 'vasca' se pasa al teatro". La Rioja (in Spanish). Madrid: Vocento. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  9. ^ Sneider, Jeff (20 December 2013). "Jeffrey Donovan, Matthew Fox to Star in Post-Apocalyptic Horror Movie 'Welcome to Harmony". The Wrap. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  10. ^ Soriano, David (14 September 2017). "Clara Lago doblará a Cleopatra en Assassin's Creed Origins". IGN. Ziff Davis, LLC. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  11. ^ Ortigosa, Marta S. (16 September 2017). "Clara Lago pone voz a Cleopatra en 'Assassin's Creed Origins'". Marca (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial Información Deportiva, S.L.U. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  12. ^ Lázaro, Margarita (22 May 2017). "Clara Lago confiesa cuándo empezó su relación con Dani Rovira". The Huffington Post (in Spanish). España Prisa Noticias S.L.U. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  13. ^ "Dani Rovira y Clara Lago rompen su relación tras cinco años de noviazgo". ABC (in Spanish). Vocento. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  14. ^ "Clara Lago: "Ser vegana me da tranquilidad de conciencia"". Diario Sur (in Spanish). 23 May 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  15. ^ Durán Manso, Valeriano (2022). "El pasado reciente escolar en el cine español actual: una mirada a las películas protagonizadas por niños (1996-2011)" (PDF). Tempo e Argumento. 14 (37). Florianópolis: Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina: 11.
  16. ^ Méndez-Leite, Fernando (29 May 2008). "El viaje de Carol". Fotogramas.
  17. ^ Holland, Jonathan (29 January 2004). "Your Next Life". Variety.
  18. ^ "Arena en los bolsillos". Fotogramas. 29 May 2008.
  19. ^ Pastor, Carmen (22 August 2007). "Cuando el suicidio es una razón para vivir". Metrópoli – via El Mundo.
  20. ^ Jimeno, Diego (8 December 2020). "'El juego del ahorcado', de Manuel Gómez Pereira". Diez Minutos.
  21. ^ Marshall, Lee (12 February 2010). "For The Good of Others (El Mal Ajeno)". ScreenDaily.
  22. ^ Roldán, Daniel (4 February 2011). "Adiós a la adolescencia". Diario Vasco.
  23. ^ Peláez, Isabel (31 January 2012). "¿Qué tuvo que hacer Clara Lago para interpretar a 'Belén' en 'La cara oculta'?". El País.
  24. ^ "Mario Casas, Clara Lago, María Valverde: Tengo ganas de ti, la secuela de A tres metros sobre el cielo (FOTOS)". HuffPost. 21 June 2012.
  25. ^ Dalton, Stephen (3 December 2012). "The End (Fin): Turin Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
  26. ^ "Críticas de los estrenos de cine del 15 de noviembre". Cadena COPE. 14 November 2013.
  27. ^ a b Gil Hernández, Roberto (2019). "España, nación fantasmal. Plenitud y ausencia en la identidad española posmoderna" (PDF). Papeles del CEIC. International Journal on Collective Identity Research. Bizkaia: Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. p. 12. doi:10.1387/pceic.19019.
  28. ^ "'Al final del túnel', Leonardo Sbaraglia y Clara Lago en un thriller con aroma clásico". RTVE. 8 August 2016.
  29. ^ "Clara Lago y Álex González obligan a reflexionar sobre la vida en 'Órbita 9'". RTVE. 3 April 2017.
  30. ^ Ortega, Aida (9 January 2018). "Clara Lago estrena nuevo look en el estreno de 'The Commuter'". Woman – via El Periódico de Catalunya.
  31. ^ Martínez, Beatriz (16 January 2019). "'Gente que viene y bah': la búsqueda de la felicidad". El Periódico de Catalunya.
  32. ^ García, Fernando (12 July 2019). "Clara Lago aguanta el pulso a los 'monstruos' del cine argentino". La Vanguardia.
  33. ^ Crespo, Irene (12 October 2021). "Clara Lago es una influencer nada convencional en la serie 'Limbo... hasta que lo decida'". Cinemanía. 20minutos.es. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  34. ^ Ocaña, Carla (23 June 2024). "Netflix: tiene 7 episodios, se inspira en hechos reales y es la serie española de la que todos están hablando". mag – via El Comercio.
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