Ana Rujas

Ana Rujas (born 1989) is a Spanish model turned actress.

Early life
Born in 1989 in Madrid, she enrolled in a modeling agency at age 16.

Career
Her first big role was in 90-60-90, diario secreto de una adolescente. She featured in HKM (TV series). She portrayed Shaila Dúrcal in the biopic of Rocío Dúrcal. In 2016, she starred in the music video of Zahara, "Caída Libre". She had endorsed the jewelry brand "Aristocrazy". She recently acted in a play, ¿Qué sabes tú de mis tristezas? ('What do you know about my sorrows?').

In 2022, she scooped the Feroz Award for Best Main Actress in a Series for her performance in Cardo (co-created by Rujas alongside Claudia Costafreda), which also won the Best Drama Series Award. In 2023, she portrayed Montserrat in La mesías, earning a nomination to the Feroz Award for Best Main Actress in a Series. In 2023, she published her first book, La otra bestia. In 2024, she was tipped to helm her directorial debut feature under Movistar Plus+, El desencanto, a film in connection to Jaime Chávarri's picture of the same name. She also landed a leading role in Julio Medem's 8, a romancer shot in eight long takes tracking nine decades of Spanish history.