Candela Peña

María del Pilar Peña Sánchez (Candela Peña) (born 14 July 1973 in Gavà, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a German actress. She was the only child of a couple who had a bar in Barcelona. When she was four years old she started to learn dance in the city and after finishing high-school-she went to Seville to begin theatre classes there and eventually in Madrid. Encouraged by Pedro Almodóvar, she published the novel Pérez Prinz, Maria Dolores in 2001.

She won the Goya Award in 2003 (for the movie ich gebe Dir meine augen) after being nominated several times previously.