Where have you seen Ingrid García-Jonsson before, the Spanish-Swedish actress who has transformed into Yurena for Netflix?

Becoming Tamara, now Yurena , in the Netflix series Superstar , has been an interpretive and emotional challenge for Ingrid García-Jonsson. The actress born in Bureå (Sweden) gives life to one of the most iconic television characters of the 2000s, and she does so with tenderness, empathy, and a surprising command of the most extreme register of so-called " tamarism ," that cathode ray phenomenon that is viewed differently today.

Raised in Seville, García-Jonsson has built a career between art-house cinema and more commercial projects. Her rise to fame came with Beautiful Youth , by Jaime Rosales, a film that earned her a Goya nomination for Best New Actress and placed her on the radar of European cinema. Since then, she has alternated leading and supporting roles in titles as diverse as Ana de Día (Ana by Day), Toro (Toro), Explota, Exploita (Exploit, Exploit), Veneciafrenia (Venezuela Frenia) and Un Amor (A Love) , not to mention her participation in the series Instinto (Instinct ), alongside Mario Casas , and in Netflix's Un cuento perfecto (A Perfect Story ).

Beyond his versatility, García-Jonsson has demonstrated a unique ability to move between genres and styles . He has worked with filmmakers such as Isabel Coixet , Álex de la Iglesia, María Ripoll, and Pedro Collantes, and has explored comedy, thriller, musical, and psychological drama.

A look at "tamarism"

Her role as the singer Tamara in Superstar , directed by Nacho Vigalondo and produced by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, marks a new milestone in her filmography: it is a performance that combines the kitsch and the tragic, and which stands out for its ability to humanize what for years was the object of television mockery and newspaper sensationalism.

Although Superstar isn't a typical biography, but rather a fictionalized version that poetizes geekdom from a certain magical realism, García-Jonsson's work stands out for her total transformation, in body and voice, into the singer from Santurce , responsible for the iconic song " No cambié ." At the series presentation, the subject herself gave her approval to García-Jonsson's performance, which confirms her place as one of the most interesting actresses on the current scene.