- Katrin Vankova is an actress born in Bulgaria and grown up in Barcelona where she moved when she was a kid. Her professional acting career began at the age of 18 and she has been working in both audiovisual and theatre fields. Her last project is "Justice", a play performed at the big room at the National Theatre in Barcelona. She has also been filming for the new upcoming "Alex Rider" series produced by Sony. She has been participated in different Spanish series like "La fossa", "Com si fos ahir", "Nit i dia" and as well as the international "Snatch". Katrin Vankova also leads the film "This is the wind" , a movie based on a true story about two girls with eating disorder, among the actors Alex Brendemühl, Laia Manzanares and Anna Alarcón. The movie participated at the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn. Her acting career also includes her performances in different independent short films and music videos like the last "Tota Pulchra" for Tarta Relena directed by the Goya award winning Irene Moray. Katrin Vankova was selected as the only Spanish actress for the Berlinale Talents Programm 2019 and received the Blood Red Carpet award as a promising actress at Sitges Film Festival 2018. Her acting career is also accompanied by her big passion in photography, where under the pseudonym "Matilda was here" she publishes her creative projects.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Katrin Vankova
- Katrin Vankova is an actress born in Sofia- Bulgaria. When she was five years old, her parents decided to go to a new adventure and emigrate to Spain, where Barcelona became the place where she grew up personally and professionally. She performed on a stage for the first time when she was seven and the feeling took her to study professionally drama in both Nancy Tuñón and Laura Jou Studio in Barcelona. After her training, she continued developing her own acting skills by doing different workshops with the best professionals of the industry and working professionally in both cinema and theater. Her last movie was the new "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent" where she had the chance to work with artists like Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Sharon Horgan, Neil Patrick Harris, among other great talents. She also participates in the new season of "Warrior Nun" from Netflix, which is going to be premiered in the winter. She's been part from both national and international projects, like the series "Alex Rider" and "Snatch", and experimental music videos and projects like "Lasts days on Earth", where she gives shape to the vulnerable soul of Agnes under the direction of Martin Salvador who creates a mystic story through the magic of the island Lanzarote. The Catalan series "La Fossa", where she gives life to Virginia, was nominated as best TV Series at the Gaudi Awards 2021 and she receives the award as Best Actress at Barciff Film Fest for the short "Atópica", a deep story that shows the power of how the body speaks when we don't do it. She was also selected as the only Spanish actress for participating at the Berlinale Talents Programm 2019 where she could work with the coach Jean-Louis Rodrigue and she also received the Blood Red Carpet award as a promising actress at Sitges Film Fest 2018. She debuted at the National Theater of Catalonia on 2020 where she performs Julia at the play "Justice", winner of the National Literature Award 2020 and takes part from the experimental play "Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation" by Tim Crouch under the direction of Pau Roca, performed at Sala Becket in Barcelona for the Grec Theater Festival 2021.
Apart from her acting career, Katrin has always been a huge art lover and she has always used different art disciplines like dance, music, photography and video to express herself, create her own projects and collaborate with different creatives, converting her into a total eclectic multidisciplinary artist. She's directed her first documentary movie "Each one of us", where under the story of eleven different people with different backgrounds, she explores the sexuality as one unique free language for everybody, showing the lack of sexual education that we have, and how the society has created taboos that don't allow us to be ourselves.
Connecting with people has always been her inspiring impulse for creating, and honesty has always been her language for exploring the different dimensions that shape her inner world.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Self-verified
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