Blanca Romero
{{Short description|Spanish actress (born 1976)}}
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Blanca Romero Ezama (born 2 June 1976) is a Spanish actress, model, and singer.
Biography
Blanca Romero was born on 2 June 1976 in Gijón. Her parents are of Peruvian and Romani descent.{{Cite web |url=https://www.hola.com/biografias/blanca-romero/biografia/ |title=Blanca Romero |website=¡Hola! |access-date=2021-06-01}}
Career
At age 14, she appeared in her first fashion show at a boutique in Gijón. As a result, she became interested in the subject of fashion; at 17 she moved to Madrid, and two years later to Paris to work at fashion magazines such as Givenchy and Madame Figaro.{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.vanitatis.elconfidencial.com/noticias/2016-02-10/blanca-romero-abre-su-baul-de-los-recuerdos_1149830/ |title=Blanca Romero abre su 'baúl de los recuerdos' |trans-title=Blanca Romero Opens Her 'Trunk of Memories' |magazine=El Confidencial Vanitatis |language=Spanish |date=2016-02-10 |access-date=2021-06-02}}
She composed her first song in 2001. In mid-2006, she began a short-lived musical career under the stage name La Perra.{{Cite news |url=https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/239924/0/Blanca/romero/sergio/ |title=Blanca Romero, 'La Perra', sale con Sergio Ramos |trans-title=Blanca Romero, 'La Perra', Goes Out With Sergio Ramos |newspaper=20 minutos |language=Spanish |date=2007-05-28 |access-date=2021-06-01}}{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.woman.es/moda/tendencias/blanca-romero-esta-de-vuelta |title=Blanca Romero está de vuelta |trans-title=Blanca Romero is Back |first1=Marta |last1=Bonilla |first2=Marta |last2=Lasierra |magazine=Woman |language=Spanish |date=2007-03-07 |access-date=2021-06-01}}
She took part in some reports for the Antena 3 television program PuntoDoc. An appearance on {{ill|El club de Flo|es}} on LaSexta led to her being noticed by the creative team for the teen drama series Física o Química, and she made the leap to acting.{{Cite news |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2009/10/25/eps/1256452009_850215.html |title=Blanca sale del Labertino |trans-title=Blanca Exits the Labyrinth |first=Elsa |last=Fernández-Santos |newspaper=El País Semanal |language=Spanish |date=2009-10-25 |access-date=2021-06-01}} She went on to act in {{ill|Las mañanas de Cuatro|es}} and Supermodelo 2006. She has appeared on the cover of the Spanish edition of Elle on several occasions, and posed nude in a special issue to raise awareness of water scarcity and pollution issues for Expo 2008 in Zaragoza.{{Cite news |url=https://www.abc.es/estilo/gente/abci-desnudas-amor-agua-200806190300-1641944657004_noticia.html |title=Desnudas por amor...al agua |trans-title=Nude for Love...of Water |newspaper=ABC |language=Spanish |date=2008-06-19 |access-date=2021-06-03}}
She made her film debut in 2009 with After, for which she was nominated for Best New Actress at the 24th Goya Awards.{{Cite web |url=https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20100131/blanca-romero-actriz-casualidad/315324.shtml |title=Blanca Romero, una actriz por casualidad |trans-title=Blanca Romero, an Actress by Chance |first=Miriam |last=Hernanz |publisher=RTVE |language=Spanish |date=2010-01-31 |access-date=2021-06-03}} She followed this with {{ill|Los muertos no se tocan, nene|es}} in 2011 and The End in 2012.
In 2015, she starred in the first season of the Antena 3 series Bajo sospecha, playing an undercover police officer partnered with Yon González.{{Cite news |url=https://www.elconfidencial.com/television/2014-06-12/blanca-romero-ficha-por-bajo-sospecha-de-antena-3_144892/ |title=Blanca Romero ficha por 'Bajo sospecha' de Antena 3 |trans-title=Blanca Romero Signs on for Antena 3's 'Bajo sospecha' |first=Iñaki |last=Milagro |newspaper=El Confidencial |language=Spanish |date=2014-06-12 |access-date=2021-06-03}} After its renewal for a second season, it was published that Romero would not continue in the project, and would be replaced by Olivia Molina. A year later, it was announced that she had signed on for the miniseries La luz de la esperanza on La 1, alongside Isak Férriz, Natalia de Molina, and {{ill|Pep Anton Muñoz|es}}.{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.vertele.com/noticias/la-vuelta-de-blanca-romero-a-television-tras-bajo-sospecha/ |title=La vuelta de Blanca Romero a televisión tras 'Bajo Sospecha' |trans-title=Blanca Romero's Return to Television After 'Bajo Sospecha' |magazine=eldiario.es vertele! |language=Spanish |date=2016-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830073838/http://vertele.eldiario.es/verteletv/actualidad/vuelta-Blanca-Romero-television-Sospecha_0_1812718731.html |archive-date=2018-08-30 |url-status=dead |access-date=2021-06-03}}
In 2020, it was confirmed that she would reprise her role as Irene Calvo Azpeolea in Física o químicaː El reencuentro for the platform Atresplayer Premium.{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.elperiodico.com/es/yotele/20200812/adam-jezierski-blanca-romero-reencuentro-fisica-quimica-8073007 |title=Adam Jezierski y Blanca Romero también se suman al reencuentro de 'Física o química' |trans-title=Adam Jezierski and Blanca Also Join the Reunion of 'Física o química' |magazine=El Periódico Yotele |language=Spanish |date=2020-08-12 |access-date=2021-06-03}}
Personal life
On 11 September 1998, she gave birth to her first child, a girl. On 10 July 2015 she revealed the identity of her daughter's biological father through an Instagram photo.
On 26 October 2001 she married the bullfighter Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez in the church of San Pedro in Gijón. Cayetano legally adopted Blanca's daughter, Lucía. They divorced in 2004.
On 21 July 2012 she gave birth to her second child, a boy.{{Cite news |url=https://www.hola.com/cine/2012072459932/blanca-romero-segundo-hijo/ |title=Blanca Romero ha sido mamá de un niño: '¡Feliz!' |trans-title=Blanca Romero is Mother to a Boy: 'Happy!' |website=¡Hola! |language=Spanish |date=2012-07-24 |access-date=2021-06-03}}
Filmography
=Television=
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! Year ! Title ! Character ! Channel ! Notes |
| 2008-2011
|Irene Calvo Azpeolea |48 episodes |
| 2012-2013
|L'Isola |Tara Riva |12 episodes |
| 2015
|Laura Cortés/Laura González Sarmiento |8 episodes |
| 2017
|La llum d'Elna |Maya |TV3 |TV movie |
| 2020-2021
|Física o químicaː El reencuentro |Irene Calvo Azpeolea |2 episodes |
| 2022-2023
| Roberta |5 episodes |
| 2025
|Next Level Chef |Herself - Host | |
=Movies=
References
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External links
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- {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110702094252/http://blancaromero.es/|title=Official website|date=2 July 2011}}
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Category:21st-century Spanish women singers
Category:21st-century Spanish singers
Category:Singers from Asturias
Category:Spanish female models
Category:Spanish television actresses