Emilia Uutinen is a Finnish multilingual actress based in Spain, working across film, television, and theatre in Spain, Finland, and the UK.
Her recent screen work includes Movistar+’s comedy series Poquita Fe and the French-language short Philosophie Culinaire, which she co-wrote with Miguel Pons. The film travelled the international festival circuit and won Best Screenplay at the Cap Spartel International Film Festival in Tangier. On television, her career spans some of Spain’s best-loved productions, among them El tiempo entre costuras, Aída, Servir y proteger, and Matadero, along with leading, recurring, and guest roles in popular sitcoms.
Emilia is drawn to roles that resist easy classification: characters who carry an unsaid history beneath the plot, and performances built on truth, subtext, and a willingness to disappear. She moves easily between drama, comedy, and suspense, and treats language and accent as creative tools rather than barriers. She works in Finnish, Spanish, English, French, and Swedish, and has also performed in German. She writes for screen and stage as well, exploring story from behind the pen as much as in front of the camera.
Her screen collaborations include work with directors Miguel Albaladejo, Ramón Salazar, Norberto López Amado, Isidro Ortiz, Miguel Pons, José Miguel and Esteban Ibarretxe, Jordi Frades, Rubén Torrejón, Alexandra Graf, Ainhoa Menéndez, and Raúl Díaz.
On stage, her recent work includes the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Trained at Madrid’s Royal School of Dramatic Arts (RESAD), she brings a grounding in classical text, physical theatre, mask work, and stage combat, complemented by formal training in dance and singing. Her repertoire ranges from the Spanish Golden Age (Calderón, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina) to Shakespeare and Goldoni, and from the twentieth-century and contemporary stage (Lorca, Tennessee Williams, Caryl Churchill, Diana Son, Jardiel Poncela, María Zambrano, Indalecio Corugedo) to dance-theatre and musical works such as Kurt Weill’s opera Down in the Valley.
