Carmen Arrufat Blasco (born 11 October 2002) is a Spanish film and television actress. Her performance in The Innocence earned her a nomination to the
Goya Award for Best New Actress. She became known to a television audience for her villainess role in the television series HIT.[1]
Biography
Born on 11 October 2002 in
Castellón de la Plana,[2][3] Arrufat took acting courses since she was 11 year old,[4] and she trained at Aula Cine y TV, a drama school operated by Víctor Antolí.[5]
Arrufat debuted as a
leading actress in a feature film in the 2019 drama The Innocence (she lied about her age being 16 while she was still 15 in order to get the role).[6][7] Her performance earned her a nomination to the
Goya Award for Best New Actress.[8] She moved to
Madrid and she was cast for the role of the manipulative and narcissist Lena Vallejo in the television series
HIT.[4][9] Shooting of the series started in January 2020,[10] but it was interrupted by the
COVID-19 lockdown,[11] so Arrufat rather performed a teenager trapped with her family during the COVID-19 lockdown in the comedy series Diarios de la cuarentena,[12][13] aired from April to May 2020 on
La 1. The filming of HIT resumed in June 2020 after a hiatus and it wrapped in July.[11] Later in 2020, Arrufat was cast in the
Movistar+ thriller series Todos mienten.[14] She also joined the main cast of Elite's season 6.[2]