Valeria Vereau is a Spanish actress and producer born in Lima, Peru. Raised between Toronto and Madrid, she trained at Cristina Rota’s drama school before working in Spanish television and international film. Her notable screen roles include Emma in Extinction, Sonia in The Interceptor, and Valentina Gomez in The Informer.
Background
Ethnicity:
Her family background has been described as Peruvian, English, Spanish, and French.
Valeria Vereau was born in Lima, Peru, on December 9, 1986, and is the youngest of three siblings. Her mother is Peruvian with English and Spanish-French ancestry, while her father has French and Spanish ancestry.
When Vereau was two, her family moved to Toronto, Canada. At about eleven, she moved with her family to Madrid, Spain, where she completed her schooling and began working at an early age. She later developed experience in modeling, commercial campaigns, and beauty photography before turning more fully to acting.
Education
After completing high school in Spain, Vereau studied acting at the Cristina Rota Drama School in Madrid for three years, beginning at the age of eighteen. The school was founded by the Argentine-Spanish actress and theater director Cristina Rota and is known for professional training in dramatic interpretation within Madrid’s contemporary theater culture.
Her training preceded her transition from commercial modeling and advertising work to screen acting. The Madrid period established the professional foundation for her subsequent appearances in Spanish television and cinema.
Career
Vereau began appearing on screen in Spain during the 2000s. She had a small role in Pedro Almodóvar’s film Volver in 2006 and worked with Julio Medem in Caótica Ana in 2007. Her early television credits included Los Simuladores and later Yo soy Bea, Ángel o Demonio, El Fútbol nos vuelve locos, Homicidios, and El don de Alba.
In 2012, Vereau moved to London, expanding her work into British productions and English-language projects. She appeared in Dark Matters: Twisted But True and in David Hare’s television film Salting the Battlefield, part of the Johnny Worricker trilogy and featuring Bill Nighy and Judy Davis.
In 2015, she played Emma in Miguel Ángel Vivas’s thriller Extinction, adapted from Juan de Dios Garduño’s novel Y pese a todo. The same year she appeared as Sonia, the Spanish interpreter, in the BBC One drama series The Interceptor and as Mica in the Spanish series Rabia.
Vereau later played Valentina Gomez in the crime thriller The Informer, released in 2019 and credited under the variant spelling Valeria Vereu. Her screen work includes feature films, television productions, and short films made in Spain and the United Kingdom.
