Milena Smit was born on 5 October 1996 in\u00a0Elche, 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\u00a0Madrid\u00a0in search of career opportunities.\u00a0Her father is Dutch.<\/p>\n
She trained as an actress at the\u00a0Cristina Rota\u00a0acting school and was taught by\u00a0Bernard Hiller, an acting coach of such actors as Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz.\u00a0Before becoming an actress, she was a waitress, shop assistant, babysitter, and information assistant on the subway.<\/p>\n
Smit’s first film appearances were in various short films such as\u00a0Diagonales,\u00a0Innermost,\u00a0Chimichanga, and\u00a0Adentro. In 2020, she appeared in her first feature film,\u00a0Cross the Line, directed by\u00a0David Victori\u00a0with\u00a0Mario Casas. For her work on the film, she was nominated at the\u00a0Goya Awards\u00a0for best new actress. The film’s casting team discovered the actress via a social network: “After much searching, we found Milena on\u00a0Instagram. We fell in love with everything she had in common with the character.”<\/p>\n
After her participation in\u00a0Cross the Line, she was signed by\u00a0Pedro Almod\u00f3var\u00a0for his film\u00a0Parallel Mothers\u00a0with\u00a0Pen\u00e9lope Cruz\u00a0and\u00a0Aitana S\u00e1nchez-Gij\u00f3n. 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.\u00a0On her performance in the film, director Almod\u00f3var 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\u00a0Cross the Line\u00a0was “overwhelming”.\u00a0Smit received a Goya Award nomination for\u00a0Best Supporting Actress\u00a0for the role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Milena Smit was born on 5 October 1996 in\u00a0Elche, 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\u00a0Madrid\u00a0in search of career opportunities.\u00a0Her father is Dutch. She trained as an actress at the\u00a0Cristina Rota\u00a0acting school and was taught […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-30627","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n