Clara Segura

Actress
theatre director

Clara Segura Crespo (born 6 May 1974) is a Catalan actress and theatre director. She is a prolific performer in the Catalan stage scene.^[1]

Life and career

Clara Segura Crespo was born in Sant Just Desvern on 6 May 1974.^[2]^[3] Despite entering a degree on art history, she graduated instead from Barcelona's Institut del Teatre in 1996.^[4] She also took studies on solfeggio, singing and piano.^[2] She made her debut onstage in La bona gent, which was followed by appearances in Antígona, L'espera, Ets aquí?, Madame Melville and El somni d'una nit d'estiu.^[5] She made her feature film debut as an actress in Joel Joan's Excuses! (2003),^[6] portraying Begoña, the hysterical wife of Jesús (Jordi Sánchez).^[7] It was followed by an appearance in The Sea Inside (2004),^[6] portraying Gené, an acquaintance of Ramón Sampedro and pro-euthanasia activist who introduces lawyer Julia to the former.^[8] She won a Gaudí Award for Best Supporting Actress for Les dues vides d'Andrés Rabadán [es].^[9] She won another Gaudí Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2014 for We All Want What's Best for Her.^[10] Segura won back-to-back Butaca Awards for Best Actress in 2018 and 2019 for her performances in the plays Les noies de Mossbank Road and La bona persona de Sezuan.^[11]

She made her solo directorial debut in a stage play in La trena (2022).^[12] She also featured as Diana in Elena Martín Gimeno's drama film Creatura (2023), portraying Diana, the mother of protagonist Mila, who was played among others by Martín Gimeno herself.^[13] Her performance earned her Gaudí^[14] and Goya award nominations for Best Supporting Actress.^[15]

Filmography

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Film

Year	Title	Role	Ref.
2003	Excuses!	Begoña	^[16]
2004	Mar adentro (The Sea Inside)	Gené	^[17]
2009	Les dues vides d'Andrés Rabadán [ca]	Sara	^[18]
2012	Una pistola en cada mano (A Gun in Each Hand)	Elena	^[19]
2013	Tots volem el millor per a ella (We All Want What's Best for Her)	Glòria	^[20]
2018	Durante la tormenta (Mirage)	Hilda Weiss	^[21]
2023	Creatura	Diana	^[13]

References

^ Gomila, Andreu. "L'amistat és això". Ara. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b Francàs, Ramon (14 September 2019). "No entendería la vida sin amor, ni sin música". La Vanguardia.
^ Maneja, Guillem (29 January 2023). "Clara Segura: "Vivim en una societat masclista i que exalta la joventut"". Nació.
^ Navarro, Núria (17 July 2016). "Clara Segura: "Escuchar las mismas palabras, juntos, nos hace fuertes"". El Periódico de Catalunya. Prensa Ibérica.
^ Capdevila, Carles (20 January 2023). "Clara Segura: "El teatre va directe al fetge i al cor"". Ara.
^ ^a ^b Medina, Guillem (21 November 2004). "Clara Segura, l´actriu que no vol ser estrella" (PDF). Avui.
^ "´Excusas!´, la dificultad de ser verdaderamente feliz". El Periódico de Aragón. Prensa Ibérica. 19 November 2003.
^ Aguado Díaz, Antonio-León; González González, Meni; Rozada Rodríguez, Cristina; Alcedo Rodríguez, María Ángeles (2010). "Mar adentro (2004). Una visión diferente seis años después del Óscar". Revista de Medicina y Cine. 6 (2). Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca: 42.
^ Mata, Toni (3 February 2010). "La protesta no va aigualir la festa dels premis Gaudí". Regió7. Prensa Ibérica.
^ Escudero, Mònica (3 February 2014). "Nora Navas y José Sacristán ganan los Gaudí a los mejores actores principales". Aisge.
^ "Clara Segura guanya el Premi Butaca a Millor Actriu per "La bona persona de Sezuan"". El Baix. 15 July 2019.
^ Colàs, Joan (13 September 2022). "Clara Segura: "Desafortunadamente todavía necesitamos que se expliquen muchas historias de mujeres"". Crónica Global – via El Español.
^ ^a ^b Dry, Jude (25 May 2023). "'Creatura' Review: A Boldly Lyrical Excavation of Lifelong Sexual Desire". IndieWire.
^ ""Creatura" i "Saben aquell", màximes favorites als Premis Gaudí: totes les nominacions". 3/24. 12 December 2023.
^ Sánchez de Castro, David (30 November 2023). "Lista completa de nominados a los Premios Goya 2024: candidatos y favoritos por categoría". ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 November 2023.
^ Vall, Pere (29 May 2008). "¡Excusas!". Fotogramas.
^ Aguado Díaz et al. 2010, p. 42.
^ "Alex Brendemühl a "Les dues vides d'Andrés Rabadán"". 10 July 2020 – via Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals.
^ Torreiro, Mirito (8 November 2012). "Una pistola en cada mano". Fotogramas.
^ "Nora Navas protagonitza "Tots volem el millor per a ella"". TV3. 3 December 2018 – via Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals.
^ Pérez, Leila (10 July 2023). "Netflix: cuál es el thriller español que es todo un fenómeno y promete atraparte". Minuto AR.