List of Spanish child actors explained

This is a list of child actors from Spain. Films and/or television series they appeared in are mentioned only if they were still a child at the time of filming.

Current child actors (under the age of eighteen) are indicated by boldface.

A

Silvia Abascal (born 1979)
- 1993-1994: Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (18 episodes)
- 1995: Telepasión española (1 episode)
- 1995: Pepa y Pepe
- 1996: Turno de oficio: Diez años después (1 episode)
- 1997: Don Juan
- 1997: Time of Happiness
- 1997: Hostal Royal Manzanares (12 episodes)
Isabel Aboy (born 1982)
- 1995-1999: Médico de familia
- 1998-2002: Periodistas
María Adánez (born 1976)
- 1978: Cabo de vara
- 1982: Loca por el circo
- 1983: Vivir mañana
- 1983: El currante
- 1983: El crack II
- 1983: Mar brava
- 1989: El rey del mambo
- 1989: The Flight of the Dove
- 1991: Farmacia de guardia
- 1994: The Worst Years of Our Lives
Elene Arandia (born 1989)
- 2001-2004: Betizu
Juanjo Artero (born 1965)
- 1981: Estudio 1 (1 episode)
- 1981-1982: Verano azul
Daniel Avilés (born 2001)
- 2009: Las manos de Abel (short film)
- 2010: Campo de batalla (short film)
- 2010: Miedo (short film)
- 2010: Rascacielos (short film)
- 2010-2012: Los protegidos
- 2012: Zombi (short film)
- 2012: Ayúdame a recordar (short film)
- 2013: El don de Alba (1 episode)
- 2013-2014: Vive cantando
- 2015: Algo que celebrar

B

Ivana Baquero (born 1994)
- 2004: Romasanta
- 2004: Rottweiler
- 2005: Fragile
- 2005: Maria i Assou
- 2005: Películas para no dormir: Cuento de Navidad
- 2006: Pan's Labyrinth
- 2008: The Anarchist's Wife
- 2009: The New Daughter
Juan José Ballesta (born 1987)
- 1997-1998: Querido maestro
- 2000: El Bola
- 2000-2001: Compañeros (10 episodes)
- 2002: The Shanghai Spell
- 2002: Carol's Journey
- 2003: The 4th Floor
- 2005: 7 Virgins
Javier Bardem (born 1969)
- 1974: El Pícaro (1 episode)
- 1981: El poderoso influjo de la luna
- 1986: Segunda enseñanza
Nerea Barros (born 1981)
- 1997: A nena
Sandra Blázquez (born 1987)
- 1998: Al salir de clase (16 episodes)
- 2002: Primer y último amor
- 2002: Ana y los 7 (2 episodes)
- 2002: Javier ya no vive solo (1 episode)
- 2003: La vida de Rita (7 episodes)
- 2003: Aquí no hay quien viva (1 episode)
- 2004: Matar al ángel
- 2004: La sopa boba
- 2004-2007: Hospital Central (3 episodes)
Juan Diego Botto (born 1975)
- 1982: Ni te cases ni te embarques
- 1983: Power Battle
- 1984: Berta's Motives
- 1986: El río de oro
- 1986: Teo el pelirrojo
- 1987: Hace quince años (short film)
- 1989: If They Tell You I Fell
- 1990: Ovejas negras
- 1990-1993: Zorro
- 1991: Cómo ser mujer y no morir en el intento
- 1991: Lucrecia
- 1992:
- 1993: Mascara de Diijon
María Botto (born 1974)
- 1984: Berta's Motives
- 1985: Stico
- 1986: Teo el pelirrojo
- 1989: If They Tell You I Fell
Carlota Boza (born 2001)
- 2007-2017, 2019-present: La que se avecina
- 2009: Clarividencia (short film)
- 2010: La duquesa (1 episode)
- 2010: Desalmados
- 2011: Los misterios de Laura (1 episode)
- 2012: El accidente
- 2013: ¡Bingo! (short film)
- 2015: Desatranques Jaén (short film)
Daniel Brühl (born 1978)
- 1994: Svens Geheimnis
- 1995: Verbotene Liebe (16 episodes)
- 1996: Der Pakt – Wenn Kinder töten

C

Javier Calvo (born 1991)
- 2007: Doctor Infierno
- 2008-2011: Física o Química
Pablito Calvo (1948-2000)
- 1955: Marcelino pan y vino
- 1956: Uncle Hyacynth
- 1957: The Man Who Wagged His Tail
- 1958: Totò e Marcellino
- 1960: Juanito
- 1961: Alerta en el cielo
- 1962: Dos años de vacaciones
- 1963: Barcos de papel
Nerea Camacho (born 1996)
- 2008: Camino
- 2010: Forever Young
- 2010: Los Protegidos (1 episode)
- 2010: Three Steps Above Heaven
- 2011: As Luck Would Have It
- 2012: Fuga
- 2012: I Want You
- 2013: El Barco (1 episode)
- 2014: Bienvenidos al Lolita
Carla Campra (born 1999)
- 2007: Atlas de geografía humana
- 2008: Cazadores de hombres (1 episode)
- 2008-2009: Yo soy Bea
- 2009: 90-60-90, diario secreto de una adolescente
- 2009: La Mari 2
- 2010: No soy como tú
- 2011: El sueño de Iván
- 2011: La duquesa
- 2011-2012: Águila Roja (2 episodes)
- 2014: Marseille
- 2016: El secreto de Puente Viejo (1 episode)
- 2016: The Collection (short film)
- 2016: Centro médico (2 episodes)
- 2016: El hombre de tu vida (1 episode)
- 2017: Verónica
Guillermo Campra (born 1997)
- 2008: Carlitos y el campo de los sueños^[1]
- 2008-2009: El Internado (3 episodes)^[2]
- 2009: Sin Cobertura (short film)
- 2009-2016: Águila Roja ^[3]
- 2011: Red Eagle, the Movie
- 2012: Aída (1 episode)
- 2014: Solo (short film)
- 2014: Videópatas (1 episode)
Susana Canales (1933-2021)
- 1942: Concierto de almas
- 1943: Dieciséis años
- 1947: Albéniz
- 1947: Con el diablo en el cuerpo
- 1947: Vacations
- 1948: La locura de Don Juan
- 1948: White Horse Inn
- 1949: Un Pecado Por Mes
- 1950: El ladrón canta boleros
- 1950: Sangre en Castilla
- 1950: Mary tuvo la culpa
- 1951: Black Sky
Lucía Caraballo (born 1999)
- 2008-2009: Hospital Central (2 episodes)
- 2009: Águila Roja (1 episode)
- 2009: Los hombres de Paco (2 episodes)
- 2009: Física o química (2 episodes)
- 2010: Gran Reserva (1 episode)
- 2010: Uniformadas (short film)
- 2010: Taxi (short film)
- 2011: Carne cruda
- 2012: Buenas noches, dijo la Señorita Pájaro
- 2013: El club del chiste (1 episode)
- 2014: Víctor Ros (1 episode)
- 2014: El amor me queda grande (short film)
- 2014: La mujer que hablaba con los muertos
- 2014: Los huesos del frío (short film)
- 2016: El Caso. Crónica de sucesos (1 episode)
- 2016: Centro médico (1 episode)
- 2016: Don't Blame the Karma for Being an Idiot
- 2017: Cuéntame Cómo Pasó (1 episode)
- 2017: Ángeles (short film)
- 2017: Acacias 38 (1 episode)
Eduardo Casanova (born 1991)
- 2005-2014: Aída
- 2007: Chuecatown
Óscar Casas (born 1998)
- 2005: Abuela de verano
- 2006: Los Serrano (2 episodes)
- 2006: 53 días de invierno
- 2007: The Orphanage
- 2009-2014: Águila Roja (54 episodes)
- 2011: El sueño de Iván
Anna Castillo (born 1993)
- 2009: El enigma Giacomo
- 2009: Persuasió (short film)
- 2010: Blog
- 2011: Doctor Mateo (12 episodes)
David Castillo (born 1992)
- 2004: Cachorro
- 2004: Manolito Gafotas
- 2005-2014: Aída
- 2010: El diario de Carlota
Marina Comas (born 1996)
- 2010: Black Bread
- 2011: Terra baixa
- 2012: The Wild Ones
- 2012: Rem
- 2013: Club der roten Bänder (3 episodes)
- 2013: Solisombra (1 episode)
- 2013: Canguro (short film)
- 2014: El cafè de la Marina
Úrsula Corberó (born 1989)
- 2002: Mirall trencat (3 episodes)
- 2005-2006: Ventdelplà (7 episodes)
- 2007: Cuenta atrás (1 episode)
- 2007: El Internado (1 episode)
- 2007: Crónica de una voluntad (short film)
Patrick Criado (born 1995)
- 2006: Con dos tacones (8 episodes)
- 2007: 13 Roses
- 2009-2015: Águila Roja
- 2011: Red Eagle, the Movie
Penélope Cruz (born 1974)
- 1991: Softly from Paris (1 episode)
- 1992: Jamón, jamón
- 1992: Belle Époque

D

Pilar López de Ayala (born 1978)
- 1995: El niño invisible
- 1996: Yo, una mujer (2 episodes)
- 1996: Menudo es mi padre (1 episode)
Nino del Arco (born 1958)
- 1964: A Fistful of Dollars^[4]
- 1965: The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
- 1965: La primera aventura^[5]
- 1967: Grandes amigos
- 1969: La gran aventura^[6]
- 1969: El niño y el potro (Más allá de río Miño)
- 1971: El Cristo del Océano^[7] ^[8]
- 1972: Kalimán, el hombre increíble
Carla Díaz (born 1998)
- 2009: El internado (1 episode)
- 2009: Águila Roja (1 episode)
- 2010: La pecera de Eva (1 episode)
- 2010: Aída (1 episode)
- 2010-2014: Tierra de lobos
- 2011: Punta Escarlata
- 2012: Marco (1 episode)
- 2012: Carmina
- 2014: Hermanos (2 episodes)
- 2014-2016: El Príncipe
- 2015: Teresa
- 2015-2017: Seis hermanas
Maialen Diez (born 1995)
- 2006: Betizu

E

Sandra Escacena (born 2001)
- 2017: Veronica
- 2017: The Same (short film)
Irene Escolar (born 1988)
- 2003: Imagining Argentina
- 2004: The 7th Day
- 2005: El comisario (1 episode)
Yaiza Esteve (born 1994)
- 2001: Sólo mía
- 2002: Hospital Central (1 episode)
- 2002: Paraíso (1 episode)
- 2003-2004: Un lugar en el mundo
- 2004: Corre, Adrián (short film)
- 2004-2006: Mis adorables vecinos
- 2006: The Backwoods
- 2008: Proyecto Dos
Gala Évora (born 1983)
- 1991: El día que nací yo

F

Dafne Fernández (born 1985)
- 1996: Canguros (1 episode)
- 1996: Malena Is a Name from a Tango
- 1997: Little Bird
- 1998: Resultado final
- 1999: Between Your Legs
- 1999: Goya en Burdeos
- 2000: Paraíso (1 episode)
- 2000: The Other Side
- 2001: Hombres felices
- 2001: Luna's Game
- 2002: Box 507
- 2002: Hospital Central (1 episode)
- 2002-2005: Un Paso Adelante (68 episodes)
Luna Fulgencio (born 2011)
- 2016: El ministerio del tiempo (1 episode)
- 2017-2018: Ella es tu padre (13 episodes)
- 2018: Mirage
- 2019: Father There Is Only One
- 2019-2020: El embarcadero (10 episodes)
- 2020: The Barrier (3 episodes)
- 2020: Desaparecidos (1 episode)
- 2020: Father There Is Only One 2
- 2020-2022: Nasdrovia
- 2021: The Fall (5 episodes)
- 2021: Blowing Kisses
- 2021: The House of Snails
- 2021: The Kids Are Alright
- 2021: Our (Perfect) Xmas Retreat
- 2021-2023: Supernormal
- 2022: Entrevías (1 episode)
- 2022: Father There Is Only One 3
- 2022: The Te$t
- 2022: Football Heroes of the Block
- 2022: The Kids Are Alright 2
- 2022: Cuesta arriba (short film)
- 2023: Lobo feroz
- 2023:
- 2024: Father There Is Only One 4

G

Ruth Gabriel (born 1975)
- 1982: La cometa blanca
- 1983-1987: Barrio Sésamo
Lucía Gil (born 1998)
- 2010-2011: Gran Reserva (14 episodes)
- 2011-2013: La Gira (38 episodes)
- 2012-2015: Violetta (16 episodes)
- 2013: La Gira: Luces, cámara, acción
- 2013: The Avatars (2 episodes)
- 2014: XQ Esperar
- 2015-2018: Yo quisiera
Ricardo Gómez (born 1994)
- 2001-2018: Cuéntame cómo pasó
- 2004: Tiovivo c. 1950
María José Goyanes (born 1948)
- 1964: Confidencias (1 episode)
- 1965: Primera fila (1 episode)
- 1965: Sábado 64 (1 episode)
- 1965-1974: Estudio 1 (12 episodes)
- 1965-1970: Novela (13 episodes)
- 1966: Diego Acevedo (1 episode)
- 1966: Tiempo y hora (1 episode)
- 1966: Tengo un libro en las manos (1 episode)
- 1966: Los Encuentros (1 episode)

I

Amane Ibañez (born 1989)
- 2003: Betizu
- 2005: Olentzero y el tronco mágico (voice)

J

Michelle Jenner (born 1986)
- 2000: Faust: Love of the Damned
- 2000-2001: El cor de la ciutat
- 2003: Més enllá de les Estrelles
- 2003: El analista Catódico
- 2004: Summer's Clouds
Joselito (born 1943)
- 1956: The Little Nightingale
- 1958: The Nightingale in the Mountains
- 1959: The Song of the Nightingale
- 1959: Listen to My Song
- 1960: The Little Colonel
- 1960: Adventures of Joselito and Tom Thumb
- 1961: The Two Little Rascals
- 1961: Lovely Memory
Jorge Jurado (born 1995)
- 2002: Hospital Central (1 episode)
- 2003-2008: Los Serrano
  - - 2007: Goal II: Living the Dream 2010-2011: Los protegidos (6 episodes)
- 2011: Vida loca

K

Dafne Keen (born 2005)
- 2015: The Refugees
  - - 2017: Logan 2019-2022: His Dark Materials
- 2020: Ana

L

Clara Lago (born 1990)
- 2000: Miserable Life (voice)
- 2000: Manos a la obra (1 episode)
- 2000-2002: Compañeros (15 episodes)
- 2002: Carol's Journey
- 2004: Your Next Life
- 2004-2007: Hospital Central (27 episodes)
- 2006: Arena en los bolsillos
- 2007: El club de los suicidas
- 2007-2008: Los Hombres de Paco (19 episodes)
- 2008: LEX
Helga Liné (born 1932)
- 1941: Porto de Abrigo
- 1946: Ladrão, Precisa-se!...
- 1946: La mantilla de Beatriz
- 1950: Kill or Be Killed
Iván Luengo (born 2003)
- - - - 2010: Three Steps Above Heaven 2012: Rec 3: Genesis 2013: Crackòvia (1 episode)
- 2013: Club der roten Bänder (2 episodes)
- 2014: Aída (1 episode)
- 2014: Campanadas (short film)
- 2015: Night and Day
- 2016: El pregón
- 2016: Nit i dia (9 episodes)
- 2017: Apaches (3 episodes)
- 2017: El incidente (5 episodes)
- 2017: Black Snow
- 2018: El pan no es para los caballos (short film)
- 2019: Claudia (short film)
- 2021: Queer You Are (3 episodes)

M

Marisol (born 1948)
- 1960: A Ray of Light
- 1961: An Angel Has Arrived
- 1962: Tómbola
- 1963: Marisol rumbo a Río
- 1964: La Nueva Cenicienta
- 1964: La Historia de Bienvenido
- 1964: Búsqueme a esa chica
- 1965: Cabriola
Abraham Mateo (born 1998)
- 2009: Días sin Luz (2 episodes)
- 2010: Raphael: Una historia de superación personal
- 2014: Who I am (short film, cameo)
- 2014: B&b, de boca en boca (1 episode, cameo)
- 2015: NCIS (1 episode)
Leire Merino (born 1988)
- 2000-2005: Betizu
Sandra Mozarowsky (1958-1977)
- 1969: El otro árbol de Guernica
  - - 1973: Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll 1973: Lo verde empieza en los Pirineos
- 1974: The Devil's Possessed
  - - 1975: Night of the Seagulls 1975: El clan de los Nazarenos
- 1975: Sensualidad
- 1975: Las protegidas
- 1975: Cuando el cuerno suena
  - - 1975: School of Death 1975: Cuentos y leyendas (1 episode)
- 1976: Curro Jiménez (1 episode)
- 1976: Call Girl: La vida privada da una señorita bien
- 1976: El hombre de los hongos
- 1976: El libro del buen amor II
- 1976: Beatriz
Andreas Muñoz (born 1990)
- - - 2001: The Devil's Backbone 2001: Dime que me quieres
- 2001: Paraíso (1 episode)
- 2001-2002: Policías, en el corazón de la calle (8 episodes)
- 2002: ¡Hasta aquí hemos llegado!
  - - 2002: Don Quixote, Knight Errant 2002: Onán (short film)
- 2003: Un lugar en el mundo (1 episode)
- 2003: Código fuego (6 episodes)
- 2003: Atraco a las 3... y media
- 2003: Hospital Central (1 episode)
- 2004: El comisario (1 episode)
- 2004: Hours of Light
- 2004: Swindled
- 2005: Ana y los 7 (1 episode)
- 2005: Al filo de la ley (1 episode)
- 2005: Ke no! (2 episodes)
- 2005: Cuéntame Cómo Pasó (1 episode)
- 2005: Life and Colour
- 2006: My Quick Way Out
- 2006: Arena en los bolsillos
- 2006: El comisario (1 episode)
- 2006: Hospital Central (3 episodes)
- 2007:
- 2007: Quart (1 episode)
- 2008: 2 de mayo, la libertad de una nación
- 2008: Paredes (short film)
- 2008-2009: Cosas de la vida
Miguel Ángel Muñoz (born 1983)
- 1994: La vida siempre es corta (short film)
- 1995: El Palomo cojo
- 1997: Mamá quiere ser artista (6 episodes)
- 1997-1998: Al salir de clase (77 episodes)
- 1999: Condenadas a entenderse (1 episode)
- 2000: ¡Ala... Dina! (1 episode)
- 2000: Policías, en el corazón de la calle
- 2000-2002: Compañeros (16 episodes)
- 2001: Gente pez
- 2001: Periodistas (2 episodes)

N

Tamar Novas (born 1986)
- 1999: Butterfly's Tongue
- 2004: The Sea Inside

O

Sofía Otero (born 2013)
- 2023: 20,000 Species of Bees
- 2023: Cuéntame Cómo Pasó (2 episodes)

P

Víctor Palmero (born 1989)
- 2005: Sprint especial
- 2006: Love to Keep
Ana Polvorosa (born 1987)
- 1999: Nada es para siempre (1 episode)
- 2000: Raquel busca su siti
- 2001: ¡Ala... Dina! (1 episode)
- 2002-2003: Javier ya no vive solo
- 2003: Hospital Central (1 episode)
- 2003-2004: Ana y los 7 (18 episodes)
- 2004: El comisario (1 episode)
- 2004: Escuela de seducción
- 2005: La gota (short film)
- 2005: Los recuerdos de Alicia

R

Martiño Rivas (born 1985)
- 1998-2000: Mareas vivas
Elena Rivera (born 1992)
- 2003-2018: Cuéntame cómo pasó
Antoñito Ruiz (born 1951)
- 1965: For a Few Dollars More^[9]
- 1966: Dollars for a Fast Gun
- 1966: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly^[10]
- 1967: A Bullet for the General
- 1967: The Long Duel
- 1968: Un día después de agosto
- 1968: Villa Rides
- 1968: Llego, veo, disparo
- 1968: Massacre Harbor

S

Jorge Sanz (born 1969)
- 1979: La miel
- 1980: El canto de la cigarra
- 1980: Los locos vecinos del 2º
- 1981: La leyenda del tambor
- 1981: Dos pillos y pico
- 1981: Dos y dos, cinco
- 1981: Verano azul (1 episode)
- 1982: Conan the Barbarian
- 1982: Crónica del alba. Valentina
- 1982: La rebelión de los pájaros
- 1983: Mar brava
- 1983: Vivir mañana
- 1984: Dos mejor que uno
- 1985: Goya (1 episode)
- 1986: Year of Enlightment
- 1986: Segunda enseñanza (1 episode)
- 1986: Pepe Carvalho (1 episode)
- 1986: Mambru Went to War
Aurora Bayona Sarriá (born 1947)
- 1963: Como dos gotas de agua
- 1964: Dos chicas locas, locas
- 1965: Whisky y vodka
- 1965: Sharp-Shooting Twin Sisters
Pilar Bayona Sarriá (born 1947)
- 1963: Como dos gotas de agua
- 1964: Dos chicas locas, locas
- 1965: Whisky y vodka
- 1965: Sharp-Shooting Twin Sisters
Emma Suárez (born 1964)
- 1979: Memorias de Leticia Valle
- 1980: Detrás de cada día (short film)
- 1981: Crónica de un instante
- 1981: Woody y yo (short film)
- 1982: Un pasota con corbata

T

Fernando Tielve (born 1986)
- 1998: A las once en casa (7 episodes)
- 2001: The Devil's Backbone
- 2001: Estés donde estés (short film)
- 2002: The Shanghai Spell
- 2002: El hombre del saco (short film)
- 2003: Imagining Argentina
- 2004: Ratas (short film)
- 2004: Niño vudú (short film)
Ana Torrent (born 1966)
- 1968: Un día después de agosto
- 1973: The Spirit of the Beehive
- 1976: Cría Cuervos
- 1977: Elisa, vida mía
- 1979: Ogro
- 1980: The Nest
- 1983: Anillos de oro (1 episode)
- 1983: Mir reicht's - ich steig aus
- 1983-1984: El jardín de Venus (3 episodes)

U

Beñat Urkiola (born 1998)
- 2006: Betizu

V

Manuela Velasco (born 1975)
- 1983: Los desastres de la guerra (1 episode)
- 1987: Law of Desire
- 1988: El juego más divertido
Maribel Verdú (born 1970)
- 1985: La huella del crimen (1 episode)
- 1986: Segunda enseñanza (1 episode)
- 1986: 27 Hours
- 1986: Year of Enlightment
- 1986: Nunca se sabe
- 1986: Turno de oficio (1 episode)
- 1987: Vida privada
- 1987: Hostages in the Barrio
- 1988: El juego más divertido
- 1988: Barcelona Connection
- 1988: Sinatra
- 1988: Scent of a Crime
- 1988: The Little Spanish Soldier
- 1988: Don Juan itinerante
Juan José Videgain (born 1975)
- 1989: Julios

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