Tamar Novas

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Novas and the second or maternal family name is Pita.

Tamar Novas Pita (born 3 October 1986) is a Spanish actor.

Tamar Novas
Novas in 2025
Born	Tamar Novas Pita (1986-10-03) 3 October 1986 (age 38) Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1997–present

Biography

Tamar Novas Pita was born in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, on 3 October 1986.^[1][2] He was cast for a minor role in José Luis Cuerda's Butterfly's Tongue in his early 10s, thus making his film debut.^[3] Likewise, he had his debut in a television series with a performance in the Galician A vida por diante.^[3] At age 16, he was cast as Ramón Sampedro's nephew in Alejandro Amenábar's The Sea Inside, a performance for which he won the Goya Award for Best New Actor.^[4] He also performed a blind screenwriter's guide in Broken Embraces.^[5] He has since featured in television series such as Acusados, Bandolera,^{[n. 1]} Carlos, rey emperador, Cocaine Coast or Gangs of Galicia.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes |	Ref.
1999	La lengua de las mariposas (Butterfly's Tongue)	Roque	Film debut	[3][8]
2004	Mar adentro (The Sea Inside)	Javi		[9]
2009	Los abrazos rotos (Broken Embraces)	Diego		[10]
2014	Un otoño sin Berlín (An Autumn Without Berlin)	Diego		[11]
2019	Elisa y Marcela (Elisa & Marcela)	Andrés		[12]
2021	A 1000 kilómetros de la navidad (1000 Miles from Christmas)	Raúl		[13]
2022	O corpo aberto (The Open Body)	Miguel		[14]
2023	¡Salta! (Jump!)	Óscar		[15]
	Nowhere	Nico		[16]
2024	Justicia artificial (Artificial Justice)	Brais		[17]
2025	8			[18]
	Rondallas † (Band Together)			[19]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes |	Ref.
2010	Acusados	Jaime Álvarez	Introduced in season 2	[20][21]
2012	Bandolera	Alejandro de la Serna		[22][6]
2015–16	Carlos, rey emperador	Juan III de Portugal		[23]
2017	El ministerio del tiempo	Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer	Guest. Episode: "Tiempo de hechizos"	[24]
2017	La zona	Ricardo		[25]
2018	Fariña (Cocaine Coast)	Roque		[26]
2018	Allí abajo	Yago Castro		[26]
2019	Alta mar (High Seas)	Sebastián		[27]
2020	El desorden que dejas (The Mess You Leave Behind)	Germán Araujo		[28]
2023	Los pacientes del doctor García (The Patients of Dr. García)	Manuel Arroyo Benítez		[29]
2024	Clanes (Gangs of Galicia)	Daniel Padín		[30]

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2005	19th Goya Awards	Best New Actor	The Sea Inside	Won	[31]
	14th Actors and Actresses Union Awards	Best New Actor		Won	[32]
2021	19th Mestre Mateo Awards	Best Supporting Actor	The Mess You Leave Behind	Nominated	[33][34]
2023	21st Mestre Mateo Awards	Best Actor	The Open Body	Won	[35]
2024	22nd Mestre Mateo Awards	Best Actor	Jump!	Won	[36]