Claudia Riera

Claudia Riera or Clàudia Riera i Bertran (born 1 January 1996) is an Andorran actress. She has appeared in Catalan plays, a film and in TV series.

Life

Riera was born in Andorra in 1996. She was trained and educated in Barcelona at the Institut del Teatre. During her training she opted to follow her talents and concentrate on plays rather than musicals. One of her teachers was Raimon Molins and he offered her the part of a robot in a Catalan play titled Alba (or the garden of delights) that he was directing. Montse Guallar was one of the leads. She had to shave her head, but it marked her move from student to actress. She took a break from her studies to concentrate on the part. with the expectation that she can complete her studies later.

Early work was appearing as one of the hockey players in the TV3 series 'Les de l'hoquei'. The programme had come about as the result of a partnership with a university. The series told the story of a struggling women's hockey team's story. It was aimed at feminist teenagers and contemporary issues.

Her appearance in the 2020 Catalan film The Offering (es:L'Ofrena) was described as "magnetic".

In 2020 she appeared as Triana, "the hacker" one of the two new faces on the fifth and final TV series of Vis a Vis.

The black comedy film The Coffee Table was released in 2022. Riera was cast by the director Caye Casas in one of the main parts. From 2021 to 2023 she played Inés/Alicia who was a main cast member of the 22 episode TV mystery series for Amazon called The Boarding School: Las Cumbres. It was shot in a monastery in Navarra. The series about troublesome students was a reboot of a series that had been on another channel.