Ingrid García-Jonsson

Ingrid García-Jonsson (born 6 September 1989) is a Swedish-Spanish actress. She was nominated to the Goya Award for Best New Actress for her performance in Beautiful Youth (2014).

Early life

Born in northern Sweden to a Spanish father and a Swedish mother, García-Jonsson moved with her parents to Seville in Spain at a young age. García-Jonsson studied architecture, and first worked as a waitress in a bar.

Career

García-Jonsson made her film debut as in Okupados (2011). She received her first major role in Beautiful Youth, which premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and received good reviews.

García-Jonsson became well known as an actress in independent films, and was nominated to Feroz Awards, Forqué Awards, Gaudí Awards, and Goya Awards.

In the film Knight and Day (2010), García-Jonsson was the stuntwoman for Cameron Diaz.

García-Jonsson played Amalia along Carlos Areces and Oscar Martínez in Me, Myself and My Dead Wife (2019), directed by Santiago Amodeo. She also appeared in political satire comedy The Little Switzerland (2019), portraying Nathalie, a secretary of the ayuntamiento of Tellería (a Castilian municipality surrounded by the Basque Country) who is keen on the village joining the Swiss Confederation. She featured as Eva alongside Verónica Forqué, Rosa Maria Sardà and David Verdaguer in So My Grandma's a Lesbian! (2019) by Ángeles Reiné.

In October 2020, she began shooting Álex de la Iglesia's slasher Venicephrenia, portraying Isa, a Spanish tourist in Venice about to get married. In July of the same year, she was reported to have joined the shooting of workplace comedy film Camera Cafe, la película.

In 2024, she was announced to have been cast to portray singer Tamara (later known as Yurena) in the streaming series Superestar.