Nerea Elizalde

In this Basque name, the first surname is Elizaldeand the second is Zamakona.

Nerea Elizalde
Nerea Elizalde in the presentation of the stage production "Like a Frozen Wind"
Born	Nerea Elizalde Zamakona (1998-06-18) 18 June 1998 (age 25) Bilbao (Basque Country) Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Alma mater	Ánima Eskola School of Drama
Occupations	actress dancer singer
Years active	2010–present
Notable work	Si fueras tú Goazen
Relatives	Unai Elizalde (brother)
Awards	Buero Vallejo Award (2015)

Nerea Elizalde Zamakona (born in Bilbao on 18 June 1998) is a Basque film, theater and television actress, singer and dancer. ^[1]

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

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. ^[1] There she coincided with the actors Carmen Climent, Julen Guerrero, Lorea Lyons and Ane Inés Landeta, together with whom she was trained. ^[2] She also trained with Argentinian stage director and drama teacher Juan Carlos Corazza. ^[3]

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 2013, she performed The Tempest , by William Shakespeare, a theatrical production at the Campos Elíseos Theatre, directed by Spanish stage director David Valdelvira, together with Carmen Climent and Lorea Lyons, among other cast members.

In 2014 she performed the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, playing the role of Helena (leading), a theatrical production at the Campos Elíseos Theatre, directed by Spanish stage director David Valdelvira, ^{[4] [5]} and with Estela Celdrán as an assistant director, together with Carmen Climent, Julen Guerrero, Lorea Lyons and Ane Inés Landeta, among other cast members. ^[1] The theatrical production was very well received by the public, and was staged several times between 2014 and 2015. ^[6] The stage production was awarded the Buero Vallejo Award (2015), in the XII edition of the awards. ^{[7] [8] [9] [10] [1]} 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, Julen Guerrero, Lorea Lyons or Ane Inés Landeta).

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, together with Carmen Climent, Lorea Lyons and Ane Inés Landeta, among other cast members.

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. ^{[11] [12] [13]}

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. ^{[14] [15] [16] [17] [18]}

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. ^{[19] [20]}

In 2020, she joined the cast of the ETB1 series Go!azen, playing the character of Garazi. ^{[21] [22]}

Private life

As for his family, she is the sister of the also actor Unai Elizalde. ^{[23] [24]}

Between 2017 and 2019, Elizalde was in a relationship with actor Aritz Mendiola. ^[25] They both met while filming the series Go!azen together. ^[25]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	TV channel	Role	Notes	Ref.
2017–present	Si fueras tú	La 1	Nerea
2020-2021	Go!azen 7.0	ETB1	Garazi		[21]
2021-2022	Go!azen 8.0	ETB1	Garazi
2022-2023	Go!azen	ETB1	Garazi		[26]

Film

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			[27] [28]

Stage

Year	Title	Director	Role	Notes	Ref.
2024	Just until tomorrow	Gorka Mínguez and David Caiña		Erre Produkzioak / Teatro Arriaga	[29] [30] [31] [32]
2022	That place of our childhood	Ana García Peña			[33] [34] [35]
2021	I killed my daughter Hildegart	Carmen San Esteban	Hildegart		[36] [37] [38]
2018	Like a cold wind	Fernando Bernués		Tanttaka Teatroa / Teatro Victoria Eugenia	[39]
2016-2018	Last train to Treblinka	Mireia Gabilondo			[40]
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	[12]
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)	[7] [1]
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	[41]

Awards and nominations

Buero Vallejo Awards

Year	Category	For work	Result	Ref.
2015	Best theatrical/stage production	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Won	[8] [1]

See also

• Marina Shimanskaya
• David Valdelvira
• Carmen Climent
• Ánima Eskola School of Drama

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External links

• Nerea Elizalde at IMDb