Ivana Baquero

Ivana Baquero is a Spanish actress from Barcelona who began acting professionally at eight with minor parts in films, among them Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt (2004) and Rottweiler (2004), as well as a small role in Fragile. She was selected from roughly 1,000 young actresses to play Ofelia in Pan's Labyrinth (2006), a role originally written for an eight-year-old and changed for her; she was 11, and the performance brought her the Goya Award for Best New Actress. Her first American part came in 2009 with the title role in The New Daughter (2009), a horror film by John Connolly. She appeared on Spanish television and in 2015 took the part of Eretria in The Shannara Chronicles, an MTV adaptation of Terry Brooks's Shannara novels, whose second season began in 2017. Between 2019 and 2020 she was Eva Villanueva on High Seas, a Netflix series, and she is a regular on Spartacus: House of Ashur, a spinoff of Spartacus.