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Milena Smit

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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Born:
Oct 4, 1996 In Elche, Alicante, Spain
Movie/TV Credits:
6
First Appeared:
In the series La resistencia 2018-02-01
Latest Project:
Movie The Platform 2 2024-09-27
Known For
Poster of Cross the Line
Poster of Innermost
Poster of Diagonales
Poster of La resistencia
Filmography
Movie The Platform 2 Perempuán 2024-09-27
Movie Dragonflies Cata 2022-09-16
Movie Innermost Laura 2020-04-10
Movie Cross the Line Mila 2020-10-16
Series La resistencia Invitada 2018-02-01
Movie Diagonales 2018-02-03
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