Llúcia Garcia
Llúcia Garcia | |
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 Garcia at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Born | Llúcia Garcia Torras 2006 (age 19–20) Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2025–present |
Llúcia Garcia Torras (born 2006) is a Spanish actress. She made her film debut in Carla Simón's Romería (2025), earning a Goya Award nomination for her starring role.
Early life
Born in Barcelona,[1] Garcia grew up in the neighborhood of Vila de Gràcia.[2] She is the granddaughter of historian Josep Maria Torras i Ribé.[3]
Career
Garcia had no professional acting experience before taking on the starring role in Carla Simón's film Romería.[4] She was invited to audition having just returned to Barcelona from a five-day camping trip.[2] Inspired by Simón's own life, Romería follows a young woman, Marina, who seeks traces of the lives of her parents who died of AIDS when she was young.[2] Garcia played the dual role of Marina and her mother.[2] The film received positive reviews after premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, including praise for Garcia with particular attention to her naturalness and her eyes.[4][5][6] She was nominated for Best New Actress at the Goya Awards and earned the prize for Best New Performance at the Gaudí Awards.[7][8] Despite the film's success, she said after its release that she had not decided whether she wanted to pursue a film career.[4]
References
- ↑ Crespo, Irene (August 24, 2025). "Llúcia Garcia y Mitch, los protagonistas de la nueva película de Carla Simón: el retrato de una generación olvidada y marcada por el sida y la heroína" [Llúcia Garcia and Mitch, the main actors of Carla Simón's new film, portrait a forgotten generation marked by AIDS and heroin]. El Periódico. Retrieved July 26, 2026.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - 1 2 3 4 Crespo, Irene (August 24, 2025). "Llúcia Garcia y Mitch, los protagonistas de la nueva película de Carla Simón: el retrato de una generación olvidada y marcada por el sida y la heroína". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved July 24, 2026.
- ↑ "Una igualadina, protagonista de la nova pel·lícula de Carla Simón 'Romería'". veuanoia.cat (in Catalan). May 21, 2025. Retrieved July 24, 2026.
- 1 2 3 Arcarons, Clàudia (September 16, 2025). "Llúcia Garcia: "Després de 'Romería', no sé si vull tota l'exposicó que implica ser actriu"". El País (in Catalan). Retrieved July 24, 2026.
- ↑ López, Carmen; Loinaz, Gorka (September 17, 2025). "Llúcia Garcia, del instituto a protagonizar Romería: 'No me imagino ganando un Goya, ni siquiera sé si me apetece, me da vergüenza dar un discurso'". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved July 24, 2026.
- ↑ Boyero, Carlos (September 5, 2025). "'Romería': una historia dura con un estilo narrativo que no me engancha". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved June 27, 2026.
- ↑ "Premios Goya 2026: listado completo de nominaciones por categoría" (in Spanish). RTVE. January 13, 2026. Retrieved July 24, 2026.
- ↑ "Premios Gaudí 2026: 'Sirat', con ocho estatuillas, y 'Frontera', con cuatro, triunfadoras de la fiesta del cine catalán" (in Spanish). RTVE. February 9, 2026. Retrieved July 24, 2026.
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