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Garrido at the 33rd Goya Awards in 2019
Born	Aura Garrido Sánchez (1989-05-29) 29 May 1989 (age 35) Madrid, Spain
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2009–present

Aura Garrido Sánchez (born 29 May 1989) is a Spanish film and television actress. She has appeared in such films as Stockholm and the television series El ministerio del tiempo.

Early life

Garrido was born in Madrid in 1989. Her father Tomás Garrido is a composer and orchestra conductor, and her mother, Pilar Sánchez, is a painter. She took her first piano classes when she was four years old, and soon after, started practicing ballet. She speaks English thanks to having an English-speaking best friend growing up.

After ending her high school studies, she enrolled in the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático, in Madrid, she took interpretation until her third year, specializing in textual interpretation, but she dropped out in 2010 because she was cast for the film Plans for Tomorrow. This role earned her the Silver Biznaga for Best Supporting Actress and a nomination to the Goya Award for Best New Actress.

Career

Garrido at the Miami Film Festival presentation of Innocent Killers

In 2010 she got her first main role in the Telecinco television series La pecera de Eva. Later, she centered her career in the small screen, and formed part of the Ángel o demonio, Crematorio and Imperium casts. She went back to working in cinema with two small roles in Promoción fantasma (2012) and El cuerpo, (2012). In 2013 she starred in Stockholm. For her performance, she won the Sant Jordi Award and a medal from the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos, and was nominated in the best actress category at the Goya Awards, the Feroz Awards and the Forqué Awards.

In 2014, on television again, she participated in the miniseries Hermanos and filmed Las aventuras del Capitán Alatriste although the latter was not broadcast until 2015. From 2015 through 2017, she played Amelia Folch in the Televisión Española series, El Ministerio del Tiempo.

Filmography

Film

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2010	Planes para mañana (Plans for Tomorrow)	Mónica
2012	Promoción fantasma (Ghost Graduation)	Elsa
	El cuerpo (The Body)	Carla Miller
2013	Los ilusos (The Wishful Thinkers)	Sofía
	Stockholm	She
	Viral [es]	Lucía
2015	Vulcania	Marta
	Asesinos inocentes [es]	Nuria Abreu
2016	La reconquista (The Reconquest)	Clara
2017	La niebla y la doncella (The Mist and the Maiden)	Virginia Chamorro
	Cold Skin	Aneris
2018	El aviso (The Warning)	Lucía
	Solo	Ona
2019	El asesino de los caprichos (The Goya Murders)	Eva González
	El silencio de la ciudad blanca (El silencio de la ciudad blanca)	Estíbaliz Ruiz de Gauna
2020	Malnazidos (Valley of the Dead)	Matacuras
2023	Alguien que cuide de mí (Someone Who Takes Care of Me)	Nora
	Amanece	Alba
2024	Historias
TBA	Daniela Forever

Television

Theatre

Accolades