Mikel Losada

Mikel Losada García is a Basque film, theatre and television actor.
He has worked on more than one hundred audiovisual productions, including Ane Is Missing, Breaking Walls, [Cuéntame cómo pasó|Cuéntame cómo pasó], or Intimacy or [Muted (TV series)|Muted]. He has also worked in more than a hundred theatre productions throughout Spain.
He has been nominated up to three times for the Best Basque Actor Award at the Union of Basque Actors and Actresses Awards, the last time in 2022 for the film Ane Is Missing. In 2001 he won the Award for Best Television Actor at the Union of Basque Actors and Actresses Awards and was nominated in the same category in 2022 for the Netflix series ''Intimacy.''

Life and career

He was born in Ermua on 28 December 1978. He studied at the Juan de Antxieta Musical Studies and Performing Arts Center where he graduated in dramatic art, being a student of Ramón Barea, Felipe Loza and Itziar Lazkano.
At sixteen he got his first roles in theatrical and audiovisual projects. At eighteen he joined Ramón Barea's theatre company. Since then he has worked in more than one hundred audiovisual productions and also in more than one hundred theatre productions.
He has been nominated up to three times for the Best Basque Actor Award at the Union of Basque Actors and Actresses Awards, the last time in 2022 for the film Ane Is Missing. In 2001 he won the Award for Best Television Actor at the Union of Basque Actors and Actresses Awards and was nominated in the same category in 2022 for the Netflix series Intimacy.
In 2015, he was part of the cast in the theatre production The Seagull, an original production of the Arriaga Theatre, directed by the Argentinean Gustavo Tambascio, together with Gurutze Beitia, Lander Otaola and Ylenia Baglietto. Also in that year he co-starred in the film Txarriboda.
In 2016, he participated in the film The Invisible Guardian, together with Marta Etura. A year later, in 2017, he co-starred in the film La Higuera de los Bastardos, directed by Ana Murugarren.
In 2020, he co-starred in the film Ane Is Missing along with Patricia López Arnaiz. The film received five nominations at the Goya Awards, including the Best Film Award, and won three Goyas.
In 2021 he was part of the theatrical production of the Arriaga Theatre El viaje a ninguna parte, directed by Ramón Barea. Due to his performance in that theatrical production, Losada received the Urregin Award in the category of Best Actor.
In 2021, he co-starred in the film García y García, directed by Ana Murugarren, along with José Mota, Pepe Viyuela and Jordi Sánchez. In 2023 he participated in its sequel García y García 2, also directed by Ana Murugarren.
He is one of the founding partners of the Pabellón Nº 6 project.
In 2025, Losada co-starred in the film Breaking Walls, directed by Borja Cobeaga, alongside Quim Gutiérrez, Juan Diego Botto, Iñaki Ardanaz, Ramón Barea, and Sofía Otero.
In 2025, he performed the theatre production The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, directed by Natalia Menéndez,a theatrical production of the Arriaga Theatre.

Private life

He currently lives in Bilbao. He is in a relationship with actress Olatz Ganboa. In 2016 she and Losada represented Los amantes del Casco Viejo, a theatre production of the Arriaga Theatre. They also recorded the series Etxekoak together, on ETB 1, in full confinement due to the COVID pandemic in 2020. He has a border collie named Kea.
She has a great friendship with the filmmaker Ana Murugarren and, as she herself has explained, Losada appears in all her films. She also has a very close friendship with the actor Ramón Barea, whom Losada considers his friend and mentor.

Filmography

Television

2023, Muted, Netflix
2022, Intimacy, Netflix
2022, Tupper Club
2020, Etxekoak
2014, No es País para Sosos
2011, El precio de la libertad
2010, Ciudad K
2008, Go!azen
2001, Cuéntame
2001, ''Goenkale''

Film

2025, Breaking Walls, dir. Borja Cobeaga
2023 García y García 2, dir. Ana Murugarren
2021 García y García
2020 Ane Is Missing
2019 La pequeña Suiza
2017 La higuera de los bastardos
2016 Igelak
2016 The Invisible Guardian
2015 Txarriboda
2013 Tres mentiras
2013 Alaba zintzoa
2012 Bypass
2012 El extraño anfitrión
2012 TESLA. VERSIÓN 04
2011 El precio de la libertad
2010 Dragoi ehiztaria
2009 Sukalde kontuak
2008 Go!azen
2007 Casual Day
2006 Kutsidazu bidea, Ixabel
2005 Corrientes circulares
2005 Hoja de ruta
2004 El coche de pedales
2001 Lázaro
2000 Los amigos
1999 Pecados provinciales
1994 ''La voz de su amo''

Stage

2025, The Glass Menagerie, dir. Natalia Menéndez
2022, Bake Lehorra / La Paz Estéril
2022, La cazadora de mitos
2021, El viaje a ninguna parte
2019, Macbeth
2016, Los amantes del casco viejo. Dir. Patxo Tellería
2016, Historia casi de mi vida. Dir. Ramón Barea
2016, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Dir. Pablo Viar
2015, The Seagull. dir. Gustavo Tambascio
2014, Fausto Ciudadano Ejemplar, Dir. Galder Pérez y Mikel Losada
2013, Los enamorados, de Carlo Goldoni, Dir. Marco Carniti
2013, Terapias, Dir. Rafael Calatayud
2012, El hijo del acordeonista, Dir. Fernando Bernues
2012, Esencia patria, Dir. Ramón Barea
2011, Sekula Bai, Dir. Lander Otaola. Galder Pérez y Mikel Losada
2008, Comida para peces, Dir. Fernando Bernues
2005, El hombre de los dados, Ramón Barea
2004, The Tempest, Ur Teatro. Dir. Helena Pimenta
2003, Deseo, Markeliñe.
2002, Chincha Rapiña, Txamuskina Teatro. Dir. Eguski Zubia
2001, Notas de cocina, Dir. Felipe Loza
2000,' Kaioa Eta Katua, Txamuskina Teatro
2000, Txamuskina, Teatro Mohicano. Dir: Ramón Barea
1999, Alias, Molière, Dir. Ramón Barea
1999, Todo Lorca, Cinema Ermua. Dir. Juan Carlos Colina
1999, Crímenes ejemplares, de Max Aub. Dir: Itziar Lazkano
1999, Solos esta noche, de Paloma Pedrero. Dir: Felipe Loza

Awards

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Year	Category	For work	Result	Ref.
2012	Best Stage Production	Sekila bai!

Union of Basque Actors and Actresses Awards

Year	Category	For work	Result	Ref.
1999	Best Basque Actor	¿?
2000	Best Basque Actor	¿?
2001	Best Television Actor	¿?	Won
2022	Best Basque Actor	Ane Is Missing
2022	Best Television Actor	Intimacy

Urregin Award

Year	Category	For work	Result	Ref.
2021	Best Actor	El viaje a ninguna parte	Won