Macarena García

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Full Name: Macarena García
Date of birth: April 26, 1988 (38 years old)
Country: Spain

Macarena García has been active for 17 years, participating in 14 movies that average a 6.2/10 score.

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Biography

Two releases in a fortnight, and one of them turned into the Spanish television story of the year. In May 2026 Macarena García had a film in cinemas, 'Un hijo', and a Movistar Plus+ comedy, 'Se tiene que morir mucha gente', which went viral almost immediately and was renewed within a month. She has been working since she was a teenager, so the pace isn't new to her.

She was born in Madrid on 26 April 1988. Her older brother is Javier Ambrossi, one half of Los Javis, the writing and directing partnership behind a good chunk of the most talked about Spanish television of the past decade. She started in stage musicals at thirteen, trained in gymnastics, dance, singing and guitar, and finished a psychology degree at the Autonomous University of Madrid along the way.

A Snow White who never speaks

Of everything she has done, the film that travelled furthest outside Spain is 'Blancanieves' (2012), Pablo Berger's silent, black and white retelling of the fairy tale, moved to 1920s Seville and the bullring. García plays Carmen, the girl who grows up to fight bulls, with Maribel Verdú as the stepmother, Daniel Giménez Cacho as her father and Ángela Molina as her grandmother.

Berger had spent eight years getting it made. It took ten Goyas, Spain's national film awards, including best picture, and became the country's Oscar submission that year. García won best new actress there and, a few months earlier, the Silver Shell for best actress at San Sebastián. She doesn't say a single word in the whole film.

Los Javis and 'Holy Camp!'

In 2013 her brother and Javier Calvo put on a small musical at Madrid's Teatro Lara about two teenage girls at a Catholic summer camp. García played María, with Anna Castillo, Belén Cuesta and Gracia Olayo beside her. What was meant to run for a few weeks became the theatre event of the decade in Madrid and won her a Fotogramas award for best stage actress.

She left the run in 2015 and came back for the 2017 screen version, released abroad as 'Holy Camp!'. Around it she kept busy: Julia in the epic 'Palm Trees in the Snow' (2015) with Mario Casas and Adriana Ugarte, broad comedy in 'Villaviciosa de al lado' (2016), and Rosa in Aritz Moreno's 'Ventajas de viajar en tren' (2019), a nested, very strange portmanteau with Luis Tosar and Ernesto Alterio.

Carrying a film on her own

'El arte de volver' (2020) changed the way critics wrote about her. Pedro Collantes' film covers a single day in Madrid and barely leaves her face. She is Noemí, an actor coming home after years away. It premiered at Venice.

Television handed her leads too: the young Lola Mendieta in the time travel series 'El Ministerio del Tiempo', a teacher in the 1920s girls' school drama 'La otra mirada', herself in 'Paquita Salas', and a Guardia Civil officer hunting three missing girls in 'Paraíso' across 2021 and 2022.

Then came 'La Mesías' (2023), the Los Javis series for Movistar Plus+ about a family wrecked by a mother's religious mania. García plays the adult Irene, her face scarred, her whole life built on an invented past, alongside Carmen Machi, Roger Casamajor and the singer Amaia Romero in her first acting job. It brought a Feroz nomination.

A year later she was Marta in 'Casa en flames', Dani de la Orden's sour comedy about a family weekend in Cadaqués that Emma Vilarasau is determined to salvage whatever the cost. It put her back in the Goya race, this time in the supporting category. The same year she voiced Roz in the Spanish dub of 'The Wild Robot'.

She keeps her private life quiet. She was with the musician Leiva for eight years, from 2014 to 2022 with a break in the middle, and later with the actor Enric Auquer, whom she met on the set of 'Casa en flames'. They separated at the end of 2025.

In 'Un hijo', adapted from Alejandro Palomas' novel by director Nacho La Casa, she plays an inexperienced school psychologist who suspects an eight year old's drawings are telling her something, with Hugo Silva as the boy's father. In 'Se tiene que morir mucha gente' she is Elena, pregnant and comfortably married to a much older man, one of three school friends taking stock in their thirties.

After that comes 'Crímenes en España' for Atresmedia, where she plays a reporter who spends eleven years inside the country's true crime machine. It's created by María Bastarós, directed by Claudia Costafreda and produced, among others, by her brother's company. She has never really left the family firm.