| Birth Place: | Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain |
| Birth Date: | 1994 |
Elisabet Casanovas (born 1994) is a Spanish actress from Catalonia.
Elisabet Casanovas was born in Sabadell, Vallès Occidental in 1994.[1] Her mother was an opera singer. She first performed as an actress at age 11. In 2017, her portrayal of Zerafina in stage play won her a Butaca Award for Best Supporting Performance.[2] Her small screen career consolidated with her credits in television series Merlí, Welcome to the Family, and, to a larger degree, Drama, in which she starred as África, a young woman living in Barcelona who gets pregnant but she does not know by whom.[3]
After a minor work in Ardara, her first major role in a feature film came in Girlfriends (2021), playing Bea, a member of a foursome of female friends described by Casanovas as always remaining positive.[4] [5] Also in 2021, she appeared in Outlaws and Sounds Like Love. In 2022, she starred as fashion designer Nuria in Atresplayer drama series The Route.[6] In 2023, she had a leading role in TV3 series Bojos per Molière, portraying Kàtia, a veterinary student who switches to acting.[7] She also joined shooting of TVE original drama Las abogadas, set against the backdrop of the 1977 Atocha massacre, in which Casanovas will star as lawyer Cristina Almeida.[8]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chavalas (Girlfriends) | Bea | |||
| Las leyes de la frontera (Outlaws) | Cristina | |||
| Fuimos canciones (Sounds Like Love) | Jimena |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merlí | Tània Illa | ||||
| Benvinguts a la família (Welcome to the Family) | Paula | ||||
| Drama | África | ||||
| La ruta (The Route) | Nuria | ||||
| Kàtia | |||||
| Las abogadas |
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Supporting Actress | La senyora Florentina i el seu amor Homer | |||||
| Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series | The Route |