Macarena García

Macarena García de la Camacha Gutiérrez-Ambrossi (born 26 April 1988) is a Spanish actress. She won the Goya Award for Best New Actress for her performance in the 2012 silent film Blancanieves. She has since featured in films such as Palm Trees in the Snow, Holy Camp! (2017), and A House on Fire (2024) and series such as El ministerio del tiempo and La mesías.

Biography Macarena García de la Camacha Gutiérrez-Ambrossi was born on 26 April 1988 in Madrid, the daughter of Francisco Javier García de la Camacha and wife Sofía Gutiérrez-Ambrossi. She started her training when she was eight years old with artistic gymnastics. When she was fourteen, she started combining it with dance, both modern as funk, in the Carmen Senra and Academia Broadway dance schools. Rosario Ruiz and Nora Troyani taught her how to sing. In addition, she has complemented her training with guitar classes in the last years. She has an older brother, Javier Ambrossi, also dedicated to acting. She studied psychology at the Autonomous University of Madrid. From 2014 to 2022, she was in a relationship with singer Leiva.

Career

She got her first role when she was thirteen and performed the role of Canelilla in En nombre de la Infanta Carlota, of Jara productions, a musical which was performed during some seasons in the Theatre of Madrid. She also worked in the musical High School Musical and performed the lead role (Gabriella Montez) with Daniel Diges (Troy Bolton).

Since then, she has performed in television series such as Hospital Central, Punta Escarlata and The Boarding School. She became known for her role as Chelo, the daughter of the doorman in Amar en tiempos revueltos from 2010 to 2012. In 2013, she played Vera on Luna, el misterio de Calenda, a series of Antena 3. In cinema, she played a leading role as Carmen/Blancanieves in Snow White (2012), directed by Pablo Berger. For this role, she received the Silver Shell for Best Actress at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and the Goya Award for Best New Actress.

She played the supporting role of Julia in Fernando González Molina's period romance film Palm Trees in the Snow (2015), a big-budget production for Spanish standards.

Starting in 2017, García portrayed the younger version of villain Lola Mendieta (whose senior version was performed by Natalia Millán) in the third season of time travel television series El ministerio del tiempo. Also in 2017, she starred alongside Anna Castillo in the musical comedy Holy Camp!, the debut feature film of her brother Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo (aka 'Los Javis'). It was the screen adaptation of Los Javis' musical play La llamada, also starred by Macarena García, which debuted at the in 2013. In the fiction, she played María, a teenager who receives the call of God in a Catholic summer camp.

She featured in the black comedy film Advantages of Travelling by Train, which was presented at the 2019 Sitges Film Festival; in the film, García appeared alongside Javier Botet in a side lovestory in Paris.

She resumed collaboration with González Molina in the television series Paradise.

In 2023, she starred in Los Javis' series La mesías, portraying the adult version of Irene / Resurrección, a face-scarred woman who has built a life as a seamstress hiding her past and her trauma after escaping from her mother's family cult. For her work in the series, she earned a nomination for the Feroz Award for Best Main Actress in a Series. Her performance landed her a Goya Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Filmography

Television Title Year Role Notes 2010 Ana Alcides TV movie aired as 2-part miniseries 2011 Punta Escarlata Raquel Solís 2013 Niños robados (Stolen Children) Violeta Senior version of the character portrayed by Manuela Paso 2014–15 B&b, de boca en boca Sonia 2017–20 El ministerio del tiempo (The Department of Time) Lola Mendieta Younger version of the character portrayed by Natalia Millán 2018–19 La otra mirada Manuela Martín Casado 2021–22 Paraíso (Paradise) Paula Costa 2023 La Mesías Irene / Resurrección

Film Title Year Role Notes 2012 Blancanieves (Snow White) Carmen Young version of the character (Carmencita) portrayed by Sofía Oria 2013 Todos están muertos (They Are All Dead) Nadia 2015 Palmeras en la nieve (Palm Trees in the Snow) Julia 2016 Villaviciosa de al lado (A Stroke of Luck) Sole 2017 La llamada (Holy Camp!) María 2018 (Holy Goalie) Sara 2019 A pesar de todo (Despite Everything) Lucía 2019 Ventajas de viajar en tren (Advantages of Travelling by Train) Rosa 2020 El arte de volver (The Art of Return) Noemí Casa en flames (A House on Fire) Marta Un hipster en la España vacía (A Hipster in Rural Spain) Lina Un hijo (A Son) María

Accolades Year Award Category Work Result 2012 21st Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Television Actress in a Minor Role Amar en tiempos revueltos 60th San Sebastian International Film Festival Silver Shell for Best Actress Snow White 2013 18th Forqué Awards Best Actress Best New Actress 27th Goya Awards Best New Actress 2014 Fotogramas de Plata Best Stage Actress La llamada 2016 25th Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Film Actress in a Secondary Role Palm Trees in the Snow 11th Feroz Awards Best Main Actress in a Series La mesías 39th Goya Awards Best Supporting Actress A House on Fire Best Film Actress in a Secondary Role