Milena Smit

Born: 1996-10-04

Milena Smit was born on 5 October 1996 in Elche, Spain. She first started working in show business as a model when she was 15 years old. She worked in her home city and later moved to Madrid in search of career opportunities. Her father is Dutch. She trained as an actress at the Cristina Rota acting school and was taught by Bernard Hiller, an acting coach of such actors as Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz. Before becoming an actress, she was a waitress, shop assistant, babysitter, and information assistant on the subway. Smit's first film appearances were in various short films such as Diagonales, Innermost, Chimichanga, and Adentro. In 2020, she appeared in her first feature film, Cross the Line, directed by David Victori with Mario Casas. For her work on the film, she was nominated at the Goya Awards for best new actress. The film's casting team discovered the actress via a social network: "After much searching, we found Milena on Instagram. We fell in love with everything she had in common with the character." After her participation in Cross the Line, she was signed by Pedro Almodóvar for his film Parallel Mothers with Penélope Cruz and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón. In the film, Smit and Cruz play women who become pregnant by accident and befriend each other in the maternity ward. Both characters give birth to girls on the same day. On her performance in the film, director Almodóvar said: "she has an emotional intelligence and a sincerity that are not learned in any school"; he also said her role in the 2020 film Cross the Line was "overwhelming". Smit received a Goya Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the role.


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The Platform 2

as Perempuán
Released: 2024-09-27

After a mysterious leader imposes his law in a brutal system of vertical cells, a new arrival...

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Parallel Mothers

as Ana
Released: 2021-10-08

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a...

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Tin & Tina

as Lola
Released: 2023-03-24

After a traumatic miscarriage, Lola and her husband Adolfo adopt Tin and Tina, a lovely albino...

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Cross the Line

as Mila
Released: 2020-10-16

A good-natured man has an unexpected deadly confrontation. Instincts kick in to clean up the...

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Dragonflies

as Cata
Released: 2022-09-16

Álex and Cata, two young women who live on the outskirts of the city, a desolate place full of...

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Indoors

as uncredited
Released: 2019-05-01

A woman battles with her own demons.

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Desde mi silla

as uncredited
Released: 2020-02-07

Short drama movie.

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Innermost

as Laura
Released: 2020-04-10

Laura closes part of her life after attending the funeral in memory of her mother. However, when...

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Diagonales

as uncredited
Released: 2018-02-03

Short movie with Milena Smit and Román Reyes.

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La resistencia

as Invitada
First aired: 2018-02-01

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The Snow Girl

as Miren Rojo
First aired: 2023-01-27

When a girl disappears in Málaga, a young journalist becomes fiercely determined to uncover the...

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The Girl in the Mirror

as Nico
First aired: 2022-08-19

After losing her memory in a bizarre accident that kills most of her classmates, Alma tries to...

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