Clara Alvarado

Clara Alvarado
Alvarado in 2016
Born
Clara Alvarado Bermudo

(1990-07-02) July 2, 1990
Navalmoral de la Mata, Spain
EducationComplutense University of Madrid
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer
  • nurse
Years active2011–present

Clara Alvarado Bermudo (born 2 July 1990) is a Spanish actress, singer and nurse. She became known for playing Ariadna Cascales in the first two parts of the crime series Money Heist (La casa de papel), returned to work as a nurse in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, and in 2023 played the singer Rocío Dúrcal in the biographical series Untameable (Cristo y Rey). She was a founder of the pop duo Biuti Bambú.[1]

Early life

Clara Alvarado Bermudo was born on 2 July 1990[2] in Navalmoral de la Mata, in the Province of Cáceres. Both her parents worked in healthcare, and from the age of eight she attended the local music school, where she studied clarinet and sang in the choir.[3] She moved to Madrid to study nursing, and during the degree an offer to appear in a short film led her to acting. She made her film debut in the 2012 short Almohada.[4]

Career

Stage

After finishing a degree in dramatic art in 2013, Alvarado appeared in the musical Jekyll y Hyde. In August 2015 she played Íole in Hércules, el musical, directed by Ricard Reguant and staged at the Roman Theatre of Mérida during the city's classical theatre festival.[5]

Television and film

Alvarado's early television work included a small role in Cuéntame cómo pasó and the part of Raquel, a new student, in the second season of the youth series Yo quisiera.[6] She played Ariadna Cascales, one of the hostages, in the first two parts of Money Heist (La casa de papel), which reached a global audience through Netflix.[7]

In 2023 she played the singer Rocío Dúrcal in Untameable (Cristo y Rey), the Atresplayer biographical series about Ángel Cristo and Bárbara Rey. Her episodes recreated the 1977 film Me siento extraña, in which Dúrcal and Rey played two women who fall in love, with Belén Cuesta as Rey.[8]

In 2024 she joined the cast of La Moderna, the daily afternoon drama of La 1, as Mercedes Morel, the sister of César Morel, played by Miguel Ángel Muñoz.[9]

Nursing

Both of Alvarado's parents are nurses; she graduated in nursing from the Complutense University of Madrid in 2012 but never practised, and when the COVID-19 pandemic reached Spain she joined a small centre caring for elderly people in the Community of Madrid, where her work included palliative care.[10]

She started on 25 March 2020, during the state of alarm declared over the coronavirus, and said she felt an ethical and moral duty to help at a time when protective equipment was scarce.[11] She announced the decision on Instagram with a message to her father, a nurse who had just retired: "Tú te jubilas y yo me incorporo" ("You retire and I sign up"), and explained that nursing had always been her "plan B" but had become her "plan A".[12] The job was the first time she had practised nursing; she said the aim of every shift was to go home feeling she had done all she could to improve her patients' health.[13]

Days into the job she admitted she was afraid of infection: staff received one mask per day and she had bought her own surgical caps online. Her father, who had asthma, was proud of her decision.[14] Alvarado remained in nursing for two and a half years, until September 2022.[15]

Music

Alvarado and Iciar Segovia formed the pop duo Biuti Bambú, a project they said was born on the rooftop of a concert among friends. They presented the group in February 2020 at the Café Comercial in Madrid, where the room was full, and they recorded their first single separately at home during the coronavirus lockdown; a second single followed in July 2020. At the time Alvarado was working eight-hour hospital shifts and gave her afternoons to the band.[16] The duo, whose members described their sound as "pop fronterizo", released its first album in the winter of 2022–23 and presented it in Cáceres in April 2023.[17]

Awards

In 2016 Alvarado was one of the five finalists for the Actriz Revelación (breakthrough actress) award at the ninth Premios Teatro Musical, for her work in Hércules, el musical.[18] In 2019 she received the individual Tenca de Oro at the Fiesta de la Tenca in Aliseda (Cáceres).[19] In 2023, at the 30th Festival de Cine Español de Cáceres, she received the Premio Reyes Abades, which the festival gives to a person from Extremadura with a distinguished film career.[20] In December 2025 she won the actress award at the first Premios Woman Extremadura, presented at the Palacio de Congresos in Mérida.[21]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Notes
2012 Almohada Short film

Television

Year Title Role
2011 Cuéntame cómo pasó
2017 Money Heist Ariadna Cascales
2018 Yo quisiera Raquel
2023 Untameable Rocío Dúrcal
2024–2025 La Moderna Mercedes Morel

Stage

Year Title Role
2015 Jekyll y Hyde
2015 Hércules, el musical Íole

References

  1. ↑ "¿Quién es Clara Alvarado? Conoce a la actriz que interpreta a Rocío Dúrcal en 'Cristo y Rey'" [Who is Clara Alvarado? Meet the actress who plays Rocío Dúrcal in 'Cristo y Rey']. Europa FM (in Spanish). 16 January 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  2. ↑ "Clara Alvarado". SensaCine (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  3. ↑ Marcos, Miguel Ángel (9 November 2011). "Una morala en 'Cuéntame'" [A Navalmoral girl in 'Cuéntame']. Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  4. ↑ "Clara Alvarado, Premio Woman Extremadura Actriz: cuando el éxito empieza en la autenticidad" [Clara Alvarado, Woman Extremadura Actress Award: when success begins with authenticity]. Woman (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  5. ↑ Marcos, Miguel Ángel (21 August 2015). "Clara Alvarado triunfa en el Festival de Teatro de Mérida con 'Hércules'" [Clara Alvarado triumphs at the Mérida Theatre Festival with 'Hércules']. Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  6. ↑ García, María (3 November 2016). "Comienza el rodaje de la segunda temporada de 'Yo quisiera', la serie juvenil de Divinity" [Filming begins on the second season of 'Yo quisiera', the Divinity youth series]. FormulaTV (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  7. ↑ "Biuti Bambú, dos voces femeninas para tiempos de resiliencia" [Biuti Bambú, two female voices for times of resilience]. El País (in Spanish). 16 August 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  8. ↑ "Clara Alvarado: 'Meterme en la piel de Rocío Dúrcal fue un reto. Su historia con Bárbara Rey fue arriesgada'" [Clara Alvarado: 'Getting into Rocío Dúrcal's skin was a challenge. Her story with Bárbara Rey was risky']. El Español (in Spanish). 21 March 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  9. ↑ "'La Moderna' recibe a nuevos personajes" ['La Moderna' welcomes new characters]. RTVE (in Spanish). 29 August 2024. Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  10. ↑ Guerra, Andrés (26 March 2020). "Clara Alvarado, del mono de 'La casa de papel' a la bata de enfermera" [Clara Alvarado, from the 'Money Heist' jumpsuit to the nurse's gown]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  11. ↑ García, Silvia (27 March 2020). "Clara Alvarado, de 'La casa de papel', se quita la careta de Dalí para ponerse el traje de enfermera" [Clara Alvarado, from 'Money Heist', takes off the Dalí mask to put on the nurse's uniform]. ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  12. ↑ "Actriz de 'La casa de papel' retoma su carrera de enfermera para ayudar en la pandemia de coronavirus" ['Money Heist' actress resumes her nursing career to help in the coronavirus pandemic]. Univision (in Spanish). 2 April 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  13. ↑ "La finalidad de cada jornada era volver a casa con la sensación de que habías hecho todo lo que podías por mejorar la salud de los pacientes" [The aim of every day was to go home feeling you had done everything you could to improve the patients' health]. Diario Enfermero (in Spanish). 13 July 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  14. ↑ Taibó, Marieta (27 March 2020). "Clara Alvarado ('La casa de papel') y su lucha como enfermera contra el coronavirus: 'Tengo miedo al contagio'" [Clara Alvarado ('Money Heist') and her fight as a nurse against the coronavirus: 'I'm afraid of contagion']. Cosmopolitan (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  15. ↑ "Clara Alvarado: 'Cuando se empezó a emitir 'La Casa de Papel' subía 20.000 seguidores al día'" [Clara Alvarado: 'When Money Heist started airing I was gaining 20,000 followers a day']. El Español (in Spanish). 9 December 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  16. ↑ Rivera, Miguel (24 July 2020). "Biuti Bambú". RockTotal (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  17. ↑ "Biuti Bambú, el grupo musical de la actriz cacereña Clara Alvarado, en Boogaloo Club" [Biuti Bambú, the musical group of Cáceres actress Clara Alvarado, at the Boogaloo Club]. Región Digital (in Spanish). 27 April 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  18. ↑ "Revelados los finalistas de la 9ª edición de los Premios Teatro Musical" [Finalists announced for the 9th Musical Theatre Awards]. BroadwayWorld (in Spanish). 29 April 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  19. ↑ "Investigadores de la Uex y la actriz Clara Alvarado, Tencas de Oro" [UEx researchers and the actress Clara Alvarado, Tencas de Oro]. El Periódico Extremadura (in Spanish). 21 August 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  20. ↑ "Fernando Trueba defiende en Cáceres el valor del cine para entender el mundo y la realidad" [Fernando Trueba defends the value of cinema for understanding the world and reality, in Cáceres]. Europa Press (in Spanish). 5 March 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  21. ↑ "En directo | Gala de entrega de los Premios Woman Extremadura" [Live: Woman Extremadura Awards ceremony]. El Periódico Extremadura (in Spanish). 2 December 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2026.
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