Nerea Elizalde

Nerea Elizalde Zamakona (born in Bilbao on 18 June 1998) is a Basque film, theatre and television actress, singer and dancer.

She has worked on several audiovisual productions, films and television series, such as Si fueras tú (La 1), Goazen (ETB 1), Ángela (Antena 3) or Zeru Ahoak (EITB/RTVE). She has also worked on multiple stage productions, with acclaimed performances, including A Midsummer Night's Dream (2014), Romeo and Juliet (2017) or Last train to Treblinka (2018).

Life and career

Nerea Elizalde was born in Bilbao (Basque Country) on 18 June 1998. She studied secondary education (lower and upper) at the Karmelo-Solokoetxe School (high school) in Bilbao.

Later, she studied and trained in theatre and drama in Ánima Eskola School of Drama with David Valdelvira, Marina Shimanskaya and Algis Arlauskas, training as a method actress, under the Stanislavsky-Vakhtangov-M.Chekhov-Meyerhold methodology (Russian method), following the methodologies of the Russian classical school. There she coincided with the actors Carmen Climent, Julen Guerrero, Lorea Lyons and Ane Inés Landeta, together with whom she was trained. She also trained with Argentinian stage director and drama teacher Juan Carlos Corazza.

She was also trained in music and dance since she was little and also in singing. She studied music and music theory with Roberto Bienzobas. She studied dance with Rakel Rodríguez. She plays the trikitixa.

In 2013, she performed The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, a theatrical production at the Campos Elíseos Theatre, directed by Spanish stage director David Valdelvira, together with Lorea Lyons and Andrea Monrocle, among other cast members.

In 2014 she performed the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, playing the role of Helena (leading), a theatrical production at the Campos Elíseos Theatre, directed by Spanish stage director David Valdelvira, and with Estela Celdrán as an assistant director, together with Carmen Climent, Julen Guerrero, Lorea Lyons, Ane Inés Landeta and Andrea Monrocle, among other cast members. The stage production was awarded the Buero Vallejo Award (2015), in the XII edition of the awards.

Part of different theatrical productions in different parts of Spain, from 2010 to 2017 she had worked in more than 10 stage productions. En 2016 she won an award for best actress for the micro-theatre A small step for man.

Between 2016 and 2018 she performed the play Last train to Treblinka, written by Patxo Telleria and directed by Mireia Gabilondo, about Jewish children from Poland heading to an extermination camp in the era of Nazi Germany, together with Alfonso Torregrosa, José Ramón Soroiz, Eneko Sagardoy and Mikel Laskurain, among other cast members. The theatrical production was nominated for Best Stage Production at the 2018 Max Awards.

In 2018 she performed the play Like a cold wind, directed by Fernando Bernués, with Koldo Olabarri and Tania Fornieles.

In 2017 she joined the cast of the series Si fueras tú on La 1, playing the character of Nerea Vidal (leading), co-starring with Maria Pedraza and Oscar Casas.

In 2020, she joined the cast of the ETB1 series Go!azen, playing the character of Garazi.

In 2024, she joined the cast of the series Ángela produced by Antena 3, starring Verónica Sánchez, Daniel Grao, Jaime Zatarain, and Lucía Jiménez.

In 2025, she joined the cast of the series Zeru Ahoak, co-produced by EITB and RTVE, a Basque thriller, sequel to the series Hondar Ahoak, directed by Koldo Almandoz and starring Nagore Aranburu, Josean Bengoetxea, and Sara Cozar, which is set to be presented at the 73rd San Sebastián International Film Festival.

Private life As for his family, she is the sister of the also actor Unai Elizalde.

Between 2017 and 2019, Elizalde was in a relationship with actor Aritz Mendiola. They both met while filming the series Go!azen together. 2023-2024 Go!azen 10.0 ETB 1 Garazi 2024 Ángela Antena 3 Fani 2024-2025 Go!azen 11.0 ETB 1 Garazi 2025 Zeru Ahoak EITB/RTVE 2021 Hikikomori Borja Crespo Stage

Awards and nominations

Buero Vallejo Awards +YearCategoryFor workResultRef.2015Best theatrical/stage productionA Midsummer Night's Dream