Ainara Elejalde (2001) has been raised in an artistic environment and it is not surprising that his vocation is also interpretation.
Daughter of Karra Elejalde and Silvia Bel -both actors-, the young woman has inherited her parents’ interest in culture and at the age of 22 she made her film debut in the film Els Encantatsby Lucia Del Greco.
Ainara Elejade’s first contact with art
The curious thing about this story is that she has always expressed wanting to express herself with art. First as a painter and later she realized that He wanted to follow the path of his parents and be in front of the cameras.
In an interview with RTVEAinara said that her first contacts with acting came when she was a girl while he was at his mother’s theater rehearsals: “At night I stayed in the dressing room and I remember that the stage impressed me. While there, I got to memorize some of their roles.”
One of the first people who knew what the young woman wanted to do was her father Karra and he asked her what she thought it was like to be an actress: “They told me that they It had gone well for them, luckily, but it was a very hard thing. And I know it well, because I have had to accompany my mother to the unemployment line many times.
Thanks to him, Ainara was realistic with her desire to dedicate herself to film and did not leave aside her initial ideas of being a painter. He enrolled in Fine Arts as well as at the Barcelona Theater College, achieving his first roles.
He attended the Goya 2015 with his father
The young woman has been very close to her parents both personally and professionally and wanted to be with the Basque actor when he won the second Goya award forEight Basque surnames in 2015being only 14 years old.
He dedicated some beautiful words to his daughter during the speech: “My daughter is the most beautiful project I have ever worked on. There are things that sometimes you do well and other times you fail… This girl turned out very pretty to me“.
‘Els Encantats’, his debut film
Karra Elejalde’s daughter has made her film debut in 2023 with the help of Catalan director Elena Trap in the movie Els Encantatsa story about a woman who has just gotten divorced and faces the absence of her daughter when she goes away for the summer with her father.
One of the reasons why she quickly became interested in the role was because of her feminine style in front of and behind the cameras: “I really liked the script, the fact that it was a woman’s storydirected by a woman and with a team of which half were also women.
“My character was also very pretty. A girl who has faced death and is not interested in frivolities. If Gina (her character) existed, I would like her very much. I think I am similar to her in that she is very sincere,” he explained. .
In the aforementioned interview with RTVE, he clarified that does not rule out working with his father in a movie, although for now she prefers to continue building her own career as an actress: “It would be very cool, although I’m sure we’ll get a drama.”
Like father, like brother, and Ainara has shown that she has drawn the same artistic vein as her parents.
