Carolina Bang | |
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 Carolina Bang at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. | |
| Born | Carolina Bang Herrera 21 September 1985 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain |
| Education | Instituto del Cine Madrid |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, model, media producer |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 |
Carolina Herrera Bang (born 21 September 1985) is a Spanish actress and film producer. She was nominated for the Goya Award for Best New Actress in 2010.
Carolina Bang was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 21 September 1985, into a family with a Norwegian mother and a Spanish father. As a child, her family moved to Madrid, where she graduated in technical architecture at the Polytechnic University while concurrently studying acting at the Film Institute. [1]
Her early endeavors in entertainment were as a member of the theater company Proyecto Katharis — where she remained for six years — and as a TV host on La Sexta's program "El Intermedio". In 2008, she transitioned to television acting with her first leading role in the series "Plutón BRB Nero," portraying Lorna. [2]
In 2010, she received a nomination to the Goya Award for Best New Actress for her performance in The Last Circus . In 2011, she joined the cast of the Telecinco series The Land of Wolves . In 2013, Bang starred in the film Witching & Bitching , directed by Álex de la Iglesia. A year later, she appeared in the Antena 3 series Velvet , and in the film Shrew's Nest . In 2016, participated in the second season of the series Víctor Ros , and in 2017, she was part of the cast of the film Skins directed by Eduardo Casanova, and starred in the Playz series Dorien , marking one of her last works as an actress. [3]
Carolina Bang's most prestigious facet is as a film producer, with over twenty credits in feature films and television series, most of them originated in her own company: Pokeepsie Films, founded in 2014 with her husband, film director and producer Álex de la Iglesia. She has produced notable titles in recent Spanish cinema, generally encompassing the horror, comedy, thriller, and film noir genres. Among the most prominent films are The Heroes of Evil , Errementari , Perfect Strangers , Four's a Crowd , Shrew’s Nest , 70 Big Ones as well as the HBO Max series 30 Coins . For HBO Max, Carolina Bang also served as executive producer for Headless Chickens a comedy series set in the world of elite football.
Additionally, she produced the successful first installment of the film trilogy My Fault that became the most-watched non-English language film in the history of Prime Video worldwide. [4] Carolina Bang is also the producer of comedian Eva Hache 's directorial debut, Un mal día lo tiene cualquiera .
In 2020, it was announced that Pokeepsie Films partnered with Sony Pictures and Amazon Prime Video to create "The Fear Collection ", [5] a label of full-length horror films with worldwide distribution. The first two movies of "The Fear Collection" were Venicephrenia , directed by Álex de la Iglesia and released in April 2022, and Venus by Jaume Balagueró. The third, Anatema by Jimina Sabadú , is slated for release in 2024. That same year, the Pokeepsie Films series for Netflix titled 1992 will be launched.
Recently, she received the S.S. Venture lifetime achievement award [6] at the Isla Calavera festival in Tenerife, an award that seeks to recognize the trajectory of those Canarians who have taken their talent from the archipelago to the boundaries of the genre.
| Year | English title | Spanish title | Format | Role | Notes |
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| 2007 | Madrid – Moscow | Madrid – Moscú | Short film | Girl | |
| 2008 | Tell Me that I | Dime que yo | Short film | Former girlfriend | |
| The Storymaker | El forjador de historias | Short film | Nurse | ||
| Pluto B.R.B. Nero | Plutón B.R.B. Nero | TV series | Lorna | 2008–09 | |
| 2009 | Paco's Men | Los hombres de Paco | TV series | Maya Azcárate | 1 episode |
| The Successful Pells | Los exitosos Pells | TV series | Marina Fernández | ||
| 2010 | The Last Circus | Balada Triste de Trompeta | Film | Natalia | Nominated—Goya Award for Best New Actress |
| 2011 | 036 | 036 | Short film | Susana | |
| Rasputin's Dagger | La daga de Rasputín | Film | Ludmila | ||
| Aida | Aída | TV series | Herself | 1 episode | |
| The Land of Wolves | Tierra de lobos | TV series | Inés | 2011–14 | |
| As Luck Would Have It | La chispa de la vida | Film | Pilar | ||
| 2012 | Pascal's Bet | La apuesta de Pascal | Short film | Estefanía | |
| 2013 | Witching & Bitching | Las brujas de Zugarramurdi | Film | Eva | |
| 2014 | Change of the Route | Cambio de ruta | Film | Julia | |
| Shrew's Nest | Musarañas | Film | Elisa | ||
| Blind Dates | Ciega a citas | TV series | Covadonga | ||
| Velvet | Velvet | TV series | Verónica Lago | 1 episode | |
| Menu for Two | Dos a la mesa | Film | Belén | ||
| 2015 | The Same Skin | La misma piel | Short film | Woman | |
| My Big Night | Mi gran noche | Film | Cristina | ||
| 2016 | Yesterday and Tomorrow | Ayer y mañana | Short film | Woman | |
| The Future Is Not What It Once Was | El futuro ya no es lo que era | Film | Luisa | ||
| Web Therapy | Web Therapy | TV series | Isabel Valero | ||
| Víctor Ros | Víctor Ros | TV series | Madame de Suberwick | ||
| 2017 | Skins | Pieles | Film | Psychiatrist | |
| Perfect Strangers | Perfectos desconocidos | Film | |||
| Dorien | Dorien | TV series | Dorien [7] | 2017–18 |
| Año | Title | Título | Director | Notas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Shrew’s Nest | Musarañas | Juanfer Andrés y Esteban Roel | Film |
| 2015 | The Heroes of Evil | Los héroes del mal | Zoe Berriatúa | Film |
| 2016 | Yesterday and Tomorrow | Ayer y mañana | Rodrigo Ruiz-Gallardón | Short film |
| 2017 | Skins | Pieles | Eduardo Casanova | Film |
| The Bar | El Bar | Álex de la Iglesia | Film | |
| Errementari | Errementari | Paul Urkijo | Film | |
| Perfect Strangers | Perfectos desconocidos | Álex de la Iglesia | Film | |
| 2018 | Una vez en la vida | Una vez en la vida | Álex de la Iglesia | Short film |
| En las estrellas | En las estrellas | Zoe Berriatúa | Film | |
| 70 Big Ones | 70 Binladens | Koldo Serra | Film | |
| 2019 | What is happening coño? | ¿Qué coño está pasando? | Marta Jaenes y Rosa Marquéz | Documentary |
| 2022 | Veneciafrenia | Veneciafrenia | Álex de la Iglesia | Film |
| The chalk line | Jaula | Ignacio Tatay | Film | |
| La Pietà | La Piedad | Eduardo Casanova | Film | |
| Four’s a crowd | El cuarto pasajero | Álex de la Iglesia | Film | |
| Venus | Venus | Jaume Balagueró | Film | |
| 2023 | My Fault | Culpa Mía | Domingo González | Film |
| 2024 | Anyone has a bad day | Un mal día lo tiene cualquiera | Eva Hache | Film |
| Anatema | Anatema | Jimina Sabadú | Film |
| Award | Edition | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goya Awards | 2011 | Best New Actress | A Sad Trumpet Ballad | Nominated [8] |
| YoGa Awards | 2011 | Worst Actress | Won [9] |
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