---
name: "Luisa Merelas"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/luisa-merelas"
fi1m_id: "luisa-merelas"
imdb_id: "nm0580655"
tmdb_id: 967362
wikidata_id: "Q20535212"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:37:34.530093+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Luisa Merelas

## Identity

Luisa Merelas

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/luisa-merelas
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** luisa-merelas
- **IMDb ID:** nm0580655
- **TMDB ID:** 967362
- **Wikidata ID:** Q20535212
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20535212, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0580655/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/967362

Actor. Born 1 January 1958 in A Coruña.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1958, A Coruña
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20535212, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0580655/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/967362

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Beasts*](https://film.one/film/the-beasts.md) (80)

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## Biography

Luisa Merelas is a Spanish actress from A Coruña, Galicia. She trained in dramatic arts at the Institut de Teatre in Barcelona and began her career in Galician television and theatre in the late 1980s.

She is known for her role as Carme Torreiro Folgar in the television series *Matalobos* (2009–2012) and as Madre Anta in the film *The Beasts* (2022). Other screen credits include *Elisa & Marcela* (2019), *Sister Death* (2023) as Mother Superior, and *Live Is Life* (2022). She has also worked as a voice actor in dubbing.

Merelas has received theatre awards including the Maruxa Villanueva Prize (2007) and María Casares Awards for best leading actress (2007) and best supporting actress (2013). In 2023 she was awarded the Premio Cinema Galego.

*Sources: imdb.com, aisge.es.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Beasts* (2022), Fi1m 80, as Madre Anta — [page](https://film.one/film/the-beasts.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Virgin of the Quarry Lake* (2026), as Rita
- *Antes de nós* (2025), as Agustina
- *As Neves* (2024), as Abuela
- *The Asunta Case* (2024), series, as Miembro jurado IV
- *Sister Death* (2023), as Mother Superior
- *The Beasts* (2022), as Madre Anta — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-beasts.md)
- *Live Is Life* (2022), as Mrs. María
- *Out of Sync* (2021), as Marga
- *Eye for an Eye* (2019), as Claudia
- *Elisa & Marcela* (2019), as Monja Ciega
- *María (and Everybody Else)* (2016), as Rosario
- *Juana de Vega. Vizcondesa do arado* (2016), Actor
- *Dirty Wolves* (2016), as María
- *Piratas: El tesoro perdido de Yáñez el sanguinario* (2011), series, as Doña Beatriz
- *Wrap Up* (2007), as Aurora
- *Seven Billiard Tables* (2007), as Luchi
- *Heroína* (2005), Actor
- *La promesa* (2004), as Felisa
- *Entre Bateas* (2002), as Ctalina
- *El baile de las ánimas* (1994), as Nena

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