Amaia Salamanca UrÃÂzar (born 28 March 1986) is a Spanish actress, best known for her role as Catalina Marcos in the Spanish version of the Colombian TV series Sin tetas no hay paraÃÂso and as Alicia Alarcón in series Gran Hotel.
Amaia Salamanca was born in Coslada on 28 March 1986. Initially, she was not planning to go into acting, but in her first audition, for SMS, the television channel TV company LaSexta gave her first acting job. In SMS, she worked with other young film and television actors such as Yon González, Aroa Gimeno, Mario Casas and MarÃÂa Castro.
Besides her work as an actress, Amaia works as a model for photo shoots, video clips and shows.
She made a theater debut in 2009 with The Marquise of O, by Heinrich von Kleist. In 2010, she played Letizia Ortiz in the TV movie Felipe y Letizia.
In October 2020, Salamanca became an ambassador for CodornÃÂu and the protagonist of its new campaign 'Live to celebrate'.