Full Name Valeria Vereau Role Actress Name Valeria Vereau | Occupation Actress, producer Citizenship Canada
Spain Movies Extinction, Siren | |
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Born 9 December 1986 (age 37) ( 1986-12-09 ) Lima, Peru Known for Roles of Sonia in The Interceptor BBC One and Emma in Extinction | ||
Valeria Vereau (Lima, Perú, 1986) is a Peruvian-born Spanish actress and producer.
Biography
Valeria Vereau is a Canadian-Spanish actress. Born in Lima (Perú) (December 9, 1986). She is the youngest of three siblings. Her mother who is Peruvian, is of English and Spanish-French descent, and her father, is of French and Spanish descent. When Valeria was two years of age her family moved to Toronto, Canada. Nine years later the entire family moved to Madrid, Spain.
After her parents separation in 1999, Valeria and her brother lived with their mother. She began to work at an early age to help her mother pay for costs. At 18 once high school finished, Valeria sign up to one of Spain's most prestigious drama school's Cristina Rota where she trained for three years.
The following years she began modelling and appearing in several commercial campaigns and beauty shoots until her first debut on screen with a small role for Pedro Almodovar's film Volver (2006). In 2007 she would collaborate with Julio Medém in Caótica Ana. She has also appeared in several Spanish TV series such as Los Simuladores, Ángel o Demonio, El Fútbol nos vuelve Locos, Homicidios, El Don De Alba among others. She moved to London, England in 2012.
There she landed her first role for the TV series Dark Matters: Twisted But True. She was also cast for several short films and commercials until she scored her first feature film in the Trilogy of David Hare Salting the Battlefield co-starring, Bill Nighy and Judy Davis. Valeria starred as Emma in the thriller Extinction (2015), alongside Matthew Fox, Jeffrey Donovan and Clara Lago, in an adaptation of Juan de Dios Garduño's bestseller book Y pese a todo. In 2015 she also appeared in the new BBC One drama series The Interceptor, where she plays Sonia the Spanish Interpreter.