Alba Planas

Alba Planas Menchén was born and raised in Madrid. She began taking acting classes at the age of 7, training in different performing arts schools. Her first steps into the world of acting were small roles in theater^[3] and the film El árbol de la sangre, directed by Julio Medem, in which she co-starred with Úrsula Corberó and Álvaro Cervantes.^[4] Subsequently, Planas was selected out of a pool of numerous teenagers auditioning to play the lead role of Eva in the first season of Skam España.^[5]

Planas can also speak Spanish and English fluently.^[6]

Skam España premiered in September 2018, with Planas' character Eva as the central protagonist in the first season of the show. She continued to star in subsequent seasons in a main role until the end of the series in 2020. While appearing as Eva in Skam, she continued to appear in several other short films. For her role in the short film 16, she was given the Best Actress Award by the Official Jury of the Ávilacine Film Festival.^[6]

In 2020, she then shot the feature film Por los pelos by Nacho G. Velilla^[7] and the series Umbra, filmed in Arnedo.^[8] In 2021, she joined the cast of the first original series of Starz Spain's Express, along with Maggie Civantos and Kiti Mánver.^[9] In May of the same year, she joined the cast of Prime Video and Mediaset España's Días mejores series, where she plays Graci.^[10] Express and Días mejores were then both renewed for second seasons, with Planas continuing on in both her main roles through 2023.