Celebrity Biographies
Alba Garcia
His thing seems to be the story of “Cinderella” in the “indignant adolescent” version. Without any acting experience, she has found herself thrust into the leading role of the ambitious Verbo, the feature directorial debut of Eduardo Chapero-Jackson.
Alba García was born in Móstoles, Madrid, on July 12, 1992. When she was little, her parents enrolled her in music classes at the conservatory. An ordinary girl, her acting experience as a professional was nil until Eva Leira and Yolanda Serrano organized a casting at the institute where Alba was studying: they were looking for the Sara that Eduardo Chapero-Jackson needed for his Verbo , a fantastic fable about a jaded society. , in which an adolescent does not resign herself to the ordinary existence to which she seems destined.
Her freshness and naturalness immediately earned the trust of the “seekers” -both she and her sister passed the first cut of the casting-, and then also that of Edu, as she calls the director who has launched her to fame. To the point that she seems a natural choice for the award for best new actress in the next edition of the Goya. Curiously, when he shot the film he was a minor –at 17 his character was supposed to be 15–, but now he is 19 years old, so, although this year is not yet in force, we do not know if the Film Academy He would have applied the new rule that rules out the option of minors to the Goya. As she confessed to Ángel Caballero in the blog “Mira a Cámara”, “Everything was very new to me, so all I did was connect with something of mine that I had inside”.
She was very excited to meet Najwa Nimri on the set , as she is apparently a great admirer of The lovers of the polar circle . After shooting the film, she signed up for theater classes, although she dropped out to finish high school. On television she played a role in the vampire TV series I’m Not Like You .
Although she does not have film projects underway, the young woman assures that she loves to sing, and also mime and gestural theater, and perhaps in that direction she can direct her next steps. In a special way, she likes works aimed at children, such as those starring puppets, and also storytellers. So she calmly, she waits to see how Verb is received to determine her future. At the moment she already has a representative, just in case.