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Laia Manzanares
Manzanares for Naturgy in 2017
Born	Laia Manzanares Tomàs (1994-03-30) 30 March 1994 (age 30) Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Occupation	Actress

Laia Manzanares Tomàs (born 30 March 1994) is a Spanish actress best known for her role as the cheerleader and love interest in 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.

Early life

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

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. 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. Between castings she worked as a waitress and had she not become an actress she would have studied psychology.

Career

In the music video for "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".

In television roles she has appeared in series such as Merlí, Cites [es], El día de mañana, Ray, and Matar al Padre. 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.

Filmography

Television

Theatre

Awards

Fugaz Awards

International Film Festival of Wales

References

1. Sensacine: Laia Manzanares
2. ^ "Laia Manzanares: "Oksana ha llegado a 'Merlí' dispuesta a dar caña"". El Periodico (in Spanish). 10 October 2016.
3. "Laia Manzanares, en 'su' jardín: Montjuïc". El Periodico (in Spanish). 9 February 2018.
4. ^ "LAIA MANZANARES: "Me siento un poco en deuda con el arte, pero de buen rollo"". Vanidad (in Spanish). 13 December 2019.
5. • Mendoza, Lalo (27 June 2016). "Descubre quién es Laia Manzanares a través de imágenes eróticas". Mr Indie (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 April 2020.
   • "Tame Impala – "The Less I Know The Better" Video". Stereogum. 27 November 2015.
   • "The 113 best songs of the past decade, ranked". Insider, Inc.
6. "Laia Manzanares: "He viscut un dol horrorós posant les paraules de l'Amanda T en boca meva"". ara.cat (in Catalan). 3 January 2019.
7. "'Amanda T.': el acoso a los jóvenes por las redes llega al TNC". El Nacional (in Catalan). 9 January 2019.
8. La Tierra llamando a Ana - IMDb, retrieved 22 March 2023
9. "Violeta Salama refleja la diversidad de España en su film "Alegría"". eldiario.es. 8 October 2021.
10. "IFFW 2020". Film Festival Guild. Retrieved 22 March 2023.

External links

• Laia Manzanares at IMDb

• 1994 births
• Living people
• Actresses from Barcelona
• 21st-century Spanish actresses
• Spanish television actresses
• Spanish film actresses
• Spanish people of Catalan descent