Laia Manzanares

Laia Manzanares Tomàs is a Spanish actress best known for her role as the cheerleader and love interest in the Tame Impala's 2015 music video for The Less I Know the Better, which became a sleeper hit and cult classic in the late 2010s. She is also known for playing the role of Ukrainian student Oksana Casanoves in the Spanish television series Merlí.

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Manzanares and the second or maternal family name is Tomàs.
Laia Manzanares
Manzanares for Naturgy in 2017
Born
Laia Manzanares Tomàs

1994 (age 25–26)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
OccupationActress

Early life

Laia Manzanares Tomàs was born in 1994, to a Valencian father and Catalan mother.[1] She was educated at the Institut Públic XXV Olimpiada high school and the Col·legi de Teatre, for two years, in Barcelona.[2]

Manzanares was inspired to act professionally after watching Uma Thurman as Beatrix "The Bride" Kiddo in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 1 and being impressed by the character's strength of personality.[3] Hoping to inspire others in the same way, Manzanares expressed her hope to work with high school or elementary school students to help instill self confidence in young people going through the "most vulnerable" periods in their lives.[3] Between castings she worked as a waitress and had she not become an actress she would have studied psychology.[3]

Career

In The Less I Know the Better, the surrealist Tame Impala music video, she is a cheerleader and the lover of a high school basketball player who is seduced by the gorilla mascot "Trevor".[4]

In television roles she has appeared in series such as Merlí, Cites, El día de mañana, Ray, and Matar al Padre.[5] In theatre roles, she has portrayed Amanda Todd (a Canadian teen who committed suicide due to cyberbullying and revenge pornography) in a dramatization called Amanda T. for TNC's youth theatre.[1][6]

Filmography
YearTitleRoleDirectorNotes
2016WasteAlejo Levis and Laura SisteróShort film
2017Sol creixentLaiaGuillem ManzanaresShort film
2018Proyecto tiempoEvaIsabel CoixetFilm for Naturgy

Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
2016CitesLaia Farràs1 episode
2016–2018MerlíOksana Casanoves27 episodes
2018Matar al PadreRuth1 episode
2018El día de mañanaParty guest (uncredited)1 episode
2018VilafrancaEvaTelevision film
2019Estoy vivoCarlotaLimited series
2019HacheSisiliaNetflix series

Theatre
YearTitleRoleDirectorVenue
2014MalnascutsTxiki BlasiSala Beckett
2014EsquerdesTxiki BlasiNau Ivanow
2016–2017OdisseusQuimet Pla y Oriol PlaSala Beckett
2018Temps salvatgeIvanaJosep Maria MiróTeatre Nacional de Catalunya
2019Amanda TAmanda ToddÀlex MañasTeatre Nacional de Catalunya

Awards

Fugaz Awards
YearCategoryShort filmResult
2019Best ActressLa Tierra llamando a AnaWon

References
  1. "Laia Manzanares: "Oksana ha llegado a 'Merlí' dispuesta a dar caña"". El Periodico (in Spanish).
  2. "Laia Manzanares, en 'su' jardín: Montjuïc". El Periodico (in Spanish).
  3. "LAIA MANZANARES: "Me siento un poco en deuda con el arte, pero de buen rollo"". Vanidad (in Spanish).
  5. "Laia Manzanares: "He viscut un dol horrorós posant les paraules de l'Amanda T en boca meva"". ara.cat (in Catalan).
  6. "'Amanda T.': el acoso a los jóvenes por las redes llega al TNC". El Nacional (in Catalan).
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