Judith Fernández

Judith Fernández
Head-and-shoulders photograph of Judith Fernández
Fernández at the Málaga Film Festival in 2026
Born (2001-04-02) April 2, 2001
Corcubión, Province of A Coruña, Spain
OccupationActress
Years active2016–present

Judith Fernández (born 2 April 2001) is a Spanish actress from Galicia. She made her screen debut as a teenager in the Televisión de Galicia series Augasquentes (2016) and reached a nationwide audience as Azucena Quiñonero in the final season of the Televisión Española soap opera Acacias 38 (2021). She has since appeared in the series Santo (2022), Mía es la venganza (2023), El caso Asunta (2024), Entrepreneurs (2025) and Las hijas de la criada (2025–2026), and in the films La casa entre los cactus (2022) and Matusalén (2024). Her leading role as Andrea in Rondallas (2025), written and directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, earned her a place on the preliminary voting lists of the Goya Awards for Best New Actress[1] and a nomination in the same category at the 81st edition of the Medals of the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos.[2]

Early life and training

Fernández comes from Corcubión, a coastal village on the Costa da Morte. She lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, until the age of eleven and moved to Madrid at eighteen. No one else in her family works in the performing arts.[3]

She began acting as a child at El Ruiseñor, a theatre company in A Coruña, under the direction of Susana Crespo, and remained a member until she was eighteen. She started working in front of a camera at fourteen; the actress María Vázquez, who played her mother in Augasquentes and again in later productions including Rondallas, has been her main professional reference since then.[4]

Career

Beginnings and Acacias 38 (2016–2021)

Fernández made her television debut in Augasquentes, a comedy produced by Ficción Producciones for Televisión de Galicia and directed by Jorge Cassinello and Alfonso Zarauza, which premiered in October 2016. Headed by María Vázquez as a judge returning to her home village after twenty years, it was shot in Cuntis and at the pazo de Cibrán in Vedra; Fernández and Andrés Collantes were the two child performers in the cast.[5]

In January 2021 she joined Acacias 38, the daily period drama on La 1, which from episode 1,403 introduced a five-year time jump into the 1920s together with a group of new residents.[6] She played Azucena, daughter of Hortensia (Amaia Lizarralde) and niece of the established character Rosina, presented as an educated young woman with little in common with the rest of her family.[7]

Film and television roles (2022–2024)

In 2022 Fernández appeared in Santo, a Spanish–Brazilian Netflix thriller created by Carlos López and headed by Raúl Arévalo and Bruno Gagliasso,[8] playing Lucía, the daughter of Arévalo's character.[9] The same month brought her first feature film, La casa entre los cactus, the directorial debut of Carlota González-Adrio, adapted by Paul Pen from his own novel. Set in the 1970s in the Canary Islands, it follows a couple played by Ariadna Gil and Daniel Grao who raise five daughters in isolation while concealing a secret; Fernández played the eldest sister, Lis.[10]

She also worked on the Movistar Plus+ series La Unidad and Apagón, and in 2023 played Vanessa Muñoz in Mía es la venganza, a daily drama created by Aurora Guerra for Telecinco that was cancelled during its first season.[11] In 2024 she was Elvira, one of three students who befriend the middle-aged rapper played by Julián López, in the comedy Matusalén, released on 5 April,[12] and played Alba in El caso Asunta, the Netflix miniseries about the murder of Asunta Basterra starring Candela Peña and Tristán Ulloa, released on 26 April.[13]

Rondallas and Las hijas de la criada (2025–2026)

In October 2025 Fernández played Elena in Entrepreneurs, a satire of Spanish start-up culture created by and starring the comedy duo Pantomima Full, whose ten-episode first season was released on Disney+ on 23 October.[14] She then took the role of Clara Alonso Comesaña in Las hijas de la criada, a period drama adapted from the novel by Sonsoles Ónega that won the 2023 Planeta Prize. Premiered on Atresplayer on 30 November 2025, it follows the Valdés family in a Galician manor house from 1900 onwards; Fernández's character, marked from birth by a concealed event, becomes the closest ally of the matriarch played by Verónica Sánchez.[15] The eight-episode series was directed by Menna Fité and Alejo Flah and was also scheduled for later broadcast on Antena 3.[16]

Her first leading role in a feature film came with Rondallas, alongside Javier Gutiérrez, María Vázquez, Carlos Blanco and Tamar Novas. Set in a Galician fishing village two years after a shipwreck, the film follows the revival of the local rondalla, a traditional ensemble of strings, percussion and bagpipes; Fernández plays Andrea, a teenager whose father died in the wreck and who gradually takes the lead of the group. After festival screenings including the San Sebastián International Film Festival, it opened in Spanish cinemas on 1 January 2026 and had drawn more than 150,000 admissions by mid-January, with Fernández and her co-star Fer Fraga widely described as the breakthrough performers of the year.[17]

At the 81st Medals of the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos, held on 23 February 2026 in Madrid, the Best New Actress award went to Blanca Soroa for Los domingos; Rondallas received the Medalla Platino Educa de la Solidaridad in the fiction category, which Fernández and Fraga collected on behalf of Sánchez Arévalo.[18]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleDirector
2022La casa entre los cactusLisCarlota González-Adrio
2024MatusalénElviraDavid Galán Galindo
2025RondallasAndreaDaniel Sánchez Arévalo

Television

YearTitleRoleNetworkNotes
2016AugasquentesIriaTVG
2021Acacias 38Azucena QuiñoneroLa 1Seventh and final season
2022La UnidadMovistar Plus+
2022SantoLucíaNetflix
2022ApagónMovistar Plus+
2023Mía es la venganzaVanessa MuñozTelecinco
2024El caso AsuntaAlbaNetflixMiniseries
2025EntrepreneursElenaDisney+
2025–2026Las hijas de la criadaClara Alonso ComesañaAtresplayerMiniseries

References

  1. ↑ García, Gema (12 January 2026). "Fer Fraga y Judith Fernández, en la carrera hacia los Goya por 'Rondallas'" [Fer Fraga and Judith Fernández, in the race towards the Goyas for 'Rondallas']. enfoques.gal (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  2. ↑ "Medallas CEC 2026: Lista de nominados" [CEC Medals 2026: List of nominees]. Moobys (in Spanish). 9 January 2026. Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  3. ↑ Gordillo, Marta (10 January 2026). "Descubrimos a Judith Fernández, la actriz revelación del nuevo año: de su pasión por Galicia a su infancia en Escocia" [We discover Judith Fernández, the breakthrough actress of the new year: from her passion for Galicia to her childhood in Scotland]. ¡HOLA! (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  4. ↑ Gallego, Esther (13 February 2026). "Entrevista a Judith Fernández: crecer entre teatro y cine" [Interview with Judith Fernández: growing up between theatre and cinema]. Neo2 Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  5. ↑ "Presentación y estreno de la serie 'Augasquentes' en la TVG" [Presentation and premiere of the series 'Augasquentes' on TVG]. El Correo Gallego (in Spanish). 10 October 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  6. ↑ Valero, Dani (4 January 2021). "Así será la llegada a la década de los 20 de 'Acacias 38' tras su salto temporal de cinco años" [This is how 'Acacias 38' will arrive in the 1920s after its five-year time jump]. FormulaTV (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  7. ↑ "¿Quiénes son los nuevos personajes de 'Acacias 38'?" [Who are the new characters in 'Acacias 38'?]. El Español (in Spanish). 5 January 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  8. ↑ Sánchez, Juan Luis (16 September 2022). "Santo". Decine21 (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  9. ↑ "Reparto Santo temporada 1" [Cast of Santo season 1]. SensaCine (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  10. ↑ "La casa entre los cactus" [The house among the cactuses]. eCartelera (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  11. ↑ Da Costa, Diego (15 July 2023). "Judith Fernández, de 'Mía es la venganza': "Hay mucha audiencia de Telecinco enfadada por lo de 'Sálvame', no sé si eso nos ha salpicado"" [Judith Fernández, of 'Mía es la venganza': "There is a large Telecinco audience angry about the 'Sálvame' affair, I don't know whether it has splashed us"]. Cinemagavia (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  12. ↑ Aguas, Fernando J. (5 April 2024). "Se estrena MATUSALÉN. "Envejecer es inevitable, madurar es opcional"" [MATUSALÉN opens. "Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional"]. Diario Salir (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  13. ↑ Osco, Nelly (26 April 2024). "El asesinato que conmocionó a España: de qué trata "El caso Asunta" y cómo ver la miniserie de Netflix" [The murder that shocked Spain: what "El caso Asunta" is about and how to watch the Netflix miniseries]. El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  14. ↑ "Entrepreneurs". FormulaTV (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  15. ↑ Guzmán, Noé (30 September 2025). "Atresmedia pone fecha al estreno de 'Las hijas de la criada', la adaptación televisiva de la novela de Sonsoles Ónega" [Atresmedia sets a premiere date for 'Las hijas de la criada', the television adaptation of Sonsoles Ónega's novel]. Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  16. ↑ "Las hijas de la criada" [The maid's daughters]. FormulaTV (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  17. ↑ Casas, Jesús (20 January 2026). "Judith Fernández, actriz de 'Rondallas': «No lloramos con amigos, pero sí con desconocidos en el cine»" [Judith Fernández, actress in 'Rondallas': "We do not cry with friends, but we do with strangers at the cinema"]. mundoCine (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2026.
  18. ↑ Casas, Jesús (24 February 2026). "'Los domingos' y 'Anatomía de un instante' arrasan en las Medallas CEC 2026" ['Los domingos' and 'Anatomía de un instante' sweep the CEC Medals 2026]. mundoCine (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2026.
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