Nathalie Poza Maupain (born 7 March 1972) is a Spanish film, stage, and television actress. She is the recipient of several accolades including two Goya Awards and five Actors and Actresses Union Awards.
In the 1990s, Poza combined a stage career with roles in television series. She made her feature film debut in musical comedy The Other Side of the Bed (2002). Poza's performance in comedy Football Days (2003) earned her a nomination to the Goya Award for Best New Actress.
She has since featured in films such as Hard Times (2005), All the Women (2013), Can't Say Goodbye (2017), While at War (2019), and Rosa's Wedding (2020).
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Early life
Nathalie Poza Maupain was born on 7 March 1972 in Madrid, the daughter of a French mother and a Spanish father. She studied at a British bilingual school in Madrid. She reportedly suffered from severe eating disorders in her teenage years. From a young age, she learned to play the piano and practiced ballet.
She trained her acting chops under Cristina Rota. In 1996, alongside fellow actors Alberto San Juan, Guillermo Toledo, and Ernesto Alterio, Poza founded the theatre group 'Ración de Oreja', which later became Animalario.
Screen career
In television she has had many secondary roles since the mid 1990s, including appearances in Hermanas, Éste es mi barrio, Más que amigos, Periodistas, Señor alcalde, and El comisario, the last of which she has appeared in several episodes. In her first fixed television role in 2001, she played Nerea in Policías, en el corazón de la calle.
Later, she appeared in Hospital Central, and, in more permanent roles, in Un lugar en el mundo (2003) and Maneras de sobrevivir (2005). Her first cinematographic works were the short films Abierto (El eco del tiempo) (1997), by Jaime Marques; No sé, no sé (1998), by Aitor Gaizka and Ruth está bien (1999), by Pablo Valiente.
In 2002, she filmed the television movie Entre cien fuegos under the orders of Iñaki Eizmendi and that same year premiered The Other Side of the Bed, by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, one of the most successful Spanish films in recent years. The next year, Maria Ripoll directed her in Utopía. She also acted in Football Days, by David Serrano de la Peña and The Weakness of the Bolshevik, by Manuel Martín Cuenca. She acted again in movies with both directors, filming Malas temporadas with Cuenca in 2005, and Cinema Days with Serrano in 2007.
She then filmed Salir pitando (2007), directed by Álvaro Fernández Armero; El club de los suicidas (2007), by Roberto Santiago; and the thriller Un buen hombre (2009), directed by Juan Martínez Moreno. During those years, she acted in television, in series such as LEX (2008), Hispania, la leyenda (2010-2012) and its spin-off Imperium (2012). In 2013, the film Todas las mujeres premiered, directed by Mariano Barroso, for which she received her third Goya nomination, for best supporting actress. In 2015 she joined the series Carlos, rey emperador, where she plays Germaine of Foix.
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In July 2025, Poza signed along with over 1,000 artists a letter sent to the Government of Spain demanding an immediate and comprehensive embargo of arms and defense material on Israel by means of a Royal Decree-Law. Also in 2025, Poza co-signed a manifesto promoted by FiSahara decrying the filming of The Odyssey in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.
Filmography
Stage performances
El fin de los sueños
Pornografía barata
El libertino
Dulce pájaro de juventud (2001)
Como en las mejores familias (2003)
Hamelín (2005)
Marat-Sade (2007)
Tito Andrónico (2009)
Penumbra (2010)
A cielo abierto (2013), Teatro Español
Fuegos (2013), Teatro Romano de Mérica
Desde Berlín (tribute to Lou Reed) (2014)
Prostitución (2020), Teatro Español
Un tranvía llamado deseo (2025), Teatro Palacio Valdés
Awards and nominations
Poza has been recognized by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain for the following:
18th Goya Awards: Best New Actress, nomination, for Football Days (2003)
20th Goya Awards: Best Actress, nomination, for Hard Times (2005)
28th Goya Awards: Best Supporting Actress, nomination, for All the Women (2013)
32nd Goya Awards: Best Actress, win, for Can't Say Goodbye (2017)
34th Goya Awards: Best Supporting Actress, nomination, for While at War (2019)
35th Goya Awards: Best Supporting Actress, win, for Rosa's Wedding (2020)
She has also won 5 Actors and Actresses Union Awards (out of 13 nominations) and one Talía Award.
