Catalina Sopelana
Catalina Sopelana is a Spanish actress.
Life and career
Born in 1992 in Madrid, she earned a degree in Psychology, deciding to join an amateur theatre group in her senior year. She's later trained her acting chops at Juan Carlos Corazza's attelier. She made her feature film debut in Carlos Vermut's Quién te cantará. After appearing in television series such as Velvet Colección, Matadero, , and Inhibidos, her portrayal of Julia in Netflix superhero comedy series The Neighbor advanced her career. She starred as "empowered" gig worker Clau in Playz webseries Riders. She also appeared in films Outlaws, Manticore, and Prison 77, and joined the cast of Julio Medem's Minotauro. Picasso y las mujeres del Guernica to portray Marie-Thérèse Walter. She played the girfriend of Lali Espósito's Wendy in the last season of action thriller series Sky Rojo, aired in 2023.Her supporting performance in The Blue Star portraying a friend of rock musician Mauricio Aznar earned her an Actors and Actresses Union Award nomination for Best Film Female Performance in a Minor Role. In season four of crime series Wrong Side of the Tracks, Sopelana portrayed unexperienced yet ambitious police agent Camila. Also in 2024, she featured in university-set psychological thriller Fraternity, and had a minor role in the television series I, Addict. In 2025, she starred opposite to Álvaro Rico and Cecilia Suárez in the romantic thriller series The Gardener, portraying "sweet and kind" pre-school teacher Violeta. She also wrapped shooting El cuco de cristal, another Netflix thriller series in which she played the protagonist, a young doctor who, upon receiving a heart transplant, digs into the identity of the donor in the countryside.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
| 2018 | Quién te cantará | Diana | Feature film debut | |
| 2021 | Las leyes de la frontera | Paqui | ||
| 2022 | Mantícora | |||
| 2022 | Modelo 77 | Lucía | ||
| 2023 | La estrella azul | Mara | ||
| 2024 | El aspirante | Lau | ||
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
| 2019–21 | El vecino | Julia | ||
| 2021 | Riders | Clau | ||
| 2022 | Laura | |||
| 2023 | Sky Rojo | Greta | Introduced in season 3 | |
| 2024 | Entrevías | Camila | ||
| 2024 | Yo, adicto | |||
| 2025 | El jardinero | Violeta | ||
| Clara Merlo |