Mikel Losada

He was born in Ermua (Basque Country) on 28 December 1978. He studied at the Juan de Antxieta Musical Studies and Performing Arts Center (Bilbao) where he graduated in dramatic art, being a student of Ramón Barea, Felipe Loza and Itziar Lazkano.^[2][3]

At sixteen he got his first roles in theatrical and audiovisual projects. At eighteen he joined Ramón Barea's theatre company. Since then he has worked in more than one hundred audiovisual productions and also in more than one hundred theatre productions.

He has been nominated up to three times for the Best Basque Actor Award at the Union of Basque Actors and Actresses Awards (Besarkada Awards), the last time in 2022 for the film Ane Is Missing.^[4][5] In 2001 he won the Award for Best Television Actor at the Union of Basque Actors and Actresses Awards (Besarkada Awards) and was nominated in the same category in 2022 for the Netflix series Intimacy.^[6]

In 2015, he was part of the cast in the theatre production The Seagull, an original production of the Arriaga Theatre, directed by the Argentinean Gustavo Tambascio, together with Gurutze Beitia, Lander Otaola and Ylenia Baglietto.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]} Also in that year he co-starred in the film Txarriboda.^[13]

In 2016, he participated in the film The Invisible Guardian (based on the novel by Dolores Redondo), together with Marta Etura.^[14][15] A year later, in 2017, he co-starred in the film La Higuera de los Bastardos, directed by Ana Murugarren.^[16][17]

In 2020, he co-starred in the film Ane Is Missing along with Patricia López Arnaiz.^[18] The film received five nominations at the Goya Awards, including the Best Film Award,^[19] and won three Goyas.^[20][21]

In 2021 he was part of the theatrical production of the Arriaga Theatre El viaje a ninguna parte, directed by Ramón Barea.^[22][23][24] Due to his performance in that theatrical production, Losada received the Urregin Award in the category of Best Actor.^[25][26]

In 2021, he co-starred in the film García y García, directed by Ana Murugarren, along with José Mota, Pepe Viyuela and Jordi Sánchez.^[27][28] In 2023 he participated in its sequel García y García 2, also directed by Ana Murugarren.^[29]

He is one of the founding partners of the Pabellón Nº 6 project.^[30]

In 2025, Losada co-starred in the film Breaking Walls, directed by Borja Cobeaga, alongside Quim Gutiérrez, Juan Diego Botto, Iñaki Ardanaz, Ramón Barea, and Sofía Otero.^[31][32]

In 2025, he performed the theatre production The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, directed by Natalia Menéndez,a theatrical production of the Arriaga Theatre.^{[33][34][35][36]}

He currently lives in Bilbao. He is in a relationship with actress Olatz Ganboa. In 2016 she and Losada represented Los amantes del Casco Viejo, a theatre production of the Arriaga Theatre.^[37][38][39] They also recorded the series Etxekoak together, on ETB 1, in full confinement due to the COVID pandemic in 2020.^{[40][41][42][43][44]} He has a border collie named Kea.^[45]

She has a great friendship with the filmmaker Ana Murugarren and, as she herself has explained, Losada appears in all her films.^[46] She also has a very close friendship with the actor Ramón Barea, whom Losada considers his friend and mentor.^[47]

• Ramón Barea