Carla Quilez arrived in our movie theaters in 2022. At 14 years old and with hardly any previous experience in front of the camera, the young actress debuted as a protagonist alongside Ángela Cervantes in The Maternala feature film by Pilar Palomero, a role for which she won the Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. This marked a resounding turning point in his life, in all aspects.
“That movie It has opened many doors for me –its premiere is one of the most beautiful moments I remember– and I am very grateful to Pilar Palomero. “She gave a weight in a movie to someone who didn’t know anything about acting,” the actress admitted in an interview for Vogue. Since then, we haven’t stopped seeing italthough 2025 has his name written on it.
First steps
What is it? native of the Horta neighborhoodin Barcelona, and from the age of six he began his adventure in the world of art, although in a discipline somewhat further removed from what life would bring him a little later. He began to train in dance covering various genres, from classical ballet to tap ballet, contemporary dance, urban dance or hip hop.
Her exploits as a dancer has been documenting them on her Instagram profile like any other girl her age. What Carla did not know is that this initiative to publish reels of his choreographies would serve as fastpass to his first big role as an actress.
Irene Roqué, casting director of Palomero’s film, discovered by chance one of his choreography videos on the social network, and He did not hesitate to contact her. to audition for the lead role of Carla, a teenage mother who ends up giving birth in a foster home where she is admitted by social services. There he will receive the support he was missing outside and will create bonds with other girls in the same situation.
This role earned her, in addition to the Silver Shell, several other recognitions, such as Medal from the Circle of Cinematographic Writers for Best New Actressand nominations for the Feroz Awards for Best Film Actress and the Gaudí Awards in the category of Best Film Actress.
After this turning point in her career, Carla Quílez has been giving shape to a new phase of most revealing work. Following the premise of do not repeat yourself in your rolesmaintains the dramatic veil, although somewhat more mature and brilliant, both on the big and small screen, where it debuted last year in 2024 with The last night in Tremor.
In that sense, and far from settling into prestige From that first brilliant role, her subsequent works have gradually confirmed what we had already suspected since her first intervention: the birth of a young actress who understands each project as a space for learning and exploration.
Present and future
And in 2024, Carla Quílez had time to participate in the most varied and dissident works, such as the short film The tattooed girlby Elisa Lanzas. A short that gives voice to Irene, a teenager who suffers street harassment from a stranger.
This leading role was closely followed by his participation in the aforementioned Netflix series, The last night in Tremorwhere Quílez joined a cast that starred names like Javier Rey, Ana Polvorosa, Willy Toledo or Pilar Castro.
Already then, that path that seemed to open a couple of years before, began to illuminate with precision a promising future full of projects. 2025 would be the confirmation of this. tell me your namea supernatural horror series that premiered precisely on October 31, showed us on our televisions a different Carla playing the role of Antara. Next to Michelle Jenner, Elena Rivera and Raúl Arévaloamong others, the young Catalan woman entered fully, this time, on the Prime Video platform.
It would not be the only series with which he would crown his 2025. Also Pubertycreated and directed by Leticia Doleraand winner of the Waves 2025 award in the category of Best Drama Series, ex aequo to To wantintroduced us to the actress, just a month before, on HBO Max.
As a whole, the works after that great debut by the hand of Palomero have been defining the portrait of a young talent in the making processwhich alternates small projects and larger-scale productions, but always with clear coherence in terms of progression and growth.
However, if there is a role that has revolutionized his year like no other, it is that of Mar in the Movistar series Jakarta. Now, on the verge of coming of age, Quílez consolidates that transition towards serial formats that has marked his year with the series of Diego San Josewho stars alongside Javier Cámara. In this case, Jakarta It is one of his most ambitious bets to date and Mar, without a doubt, the most complex character.
In short, Carla Quílez closes a year of projects at the height with a trail of characters that have marked 2025. But, above all, he says goodbye to a season that opens the door to even better ones, ready to come into play sooner than we think.
