Alba Planas Explained

Alba Planas
Birth Name:	Alba Planas Menchén
Birth Date:	2000 9, df=yes^[1]
Birth Place:	Madrid, Spain
Occupation:	Actress
Notable Works:	Skam España

Alba Planas Menchén (born 10 September 2000) is a Spanish actress, best known for her main role as Eva Vázquez Villanueva in the series Skam España, the Spanish adaptation of Skam. In 2017, she also appeared in the television series Centro médico.^[2]

Early years

Alba Planas Menchén was born and raised in Madrid, Spain. She began taking acting classes at the age of 7, training in different performing arts schools. Her first steps into the world of acting were small roles in theater^[3] and the film El árbol de la sangre, directed by Julio Medem, in which she co-starred with Úrsula Corberó and Álvaro Cervantes.^[4] Subsequently, Planas was selected out of a pool of numerous teenagers auditioning to play the lead role of Eva in the first season of Skam España.^[5]

Planas can also speak Spanish and English fluently.^[6]

Career

Skam España premiered in September 2018, with Planas' character Eva as the central protagonist in the first season of the show. She continued to star in subsequent seasons in a main role until the end of the series in 2020. While appearing as Eva in Skam, she continued to appear in several other short films. For her role in the short film 16, she was given the Best Actress Award by the Official Jury of the Ávilacine Film Festival.^[7]

In 2020, she then shot the feature film Por los pelos by Nacho G. Velilla^[8] and the series Umbra, filmed in Arnedo.^[9] In 2021, she joined the cast of the first original series of Starz Spain's Express, along with Maggie Civantos and Kiti Mánver.^[10] In May of the same year, she joined the cast of Prime Video and Mediaset España's Días mejores series, where she plays Graci.^[11] Express and Días mejores were then both renewed for second seasons, with Planas continuing on in both her main roles through 2023.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Character	Channel	Notes
2017	Centro médico	Sol	TVE	1 episode
2018–2020	Skam España	Eva Vázquez Villanueva	Movistar+	Main cast; 38 episodes & central character of season 1
2022–2023	Express	Gus Valera Vázquez	Starzplay	Main cast; 16 episodes
	Días mejores	Graci	Amazon Prime	Main cast; 18 episodes

Cinema

Year	Title	Character	Director
2018	El árbol de la sangre	Rebeca (14 años)	Julio Medem
2022	Por los pelos	Aitana	Nacho G. Velilla
	Hildegart	Hildegart^[12]	Paula Ortiz

Short films

Year	Title	Character	Director
2018	Canasta	Aurora	Gracia Querejeta
2019	La confianza de mi cabeza entre tus muslos	Lola	Miguel Carreras
2020	16	Laura	Ana Lambarri

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alba Planas es la joven actriz de Días Mejores y Express . Neo2. es.
2. Web site: ‘SKAM España’: Así son Alba Planas y Tomy Aguilera (Eva y Jorge) . 30 March 2019 . Fuera de series . es.
3. Web site: 10 May 2019 . Alba Planas (“Skam España”), una estrella emergente . The Citizen . es.
4. Web site: El árbol de la sangre . Premios Goya . es.
5. Web site: 17 December 2018 . El sorprendente crossover entre 'Fama a bailar' y 'Skam España': Así ha sido el casting de Inés y Eva . FórmulaTV . es.
6. Web site: 6 August 2023 . Alba Planas - Carcelén . Carcelén Talents . es.
7. Web site: 6 August 2023 . Alba Planas - Carcelén . Carcelén Talents . es.
8. Web site: Concluye en Estambul el rodaje de 'Por los pelos. Una historia de autoestima', la nueva película de Nacho G. Velilla . 10 November 2020 . Atresmedia . es.
9. Web site: ‘Umbra’ graba en Arnedo con Alba Planas como protagonista . 7 January 2020 . nuevecuatrouno . es.
10. Web site: 16 March 2021 . Arranca el rodaje de ‘Express’, la primera serie española de Starzplay . Cine con Ñ . es.
11. Web site: 27 May 2021 . Amazon y Mediaset ya graban 'El día menos pensado', una dramedia protagonizada por Blanca Portillo . Formula TV . es.
12. Web site: Najwa Nimri será la madre de Hildegart Rodríguez, la "virgen roja" que protagonizará la nueva película de Paula Ortiz en Amazon. Fotogramas. Ricardo. Rosado. 14 June 2023.