Yanexi Enriquez
Yanexi is a London-based actor and dancer, who trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, graduating in 2020.
Yanexi has been seen in Casualty and recently guest led on FBI: International for CBS. She has just completed photography on a guest role in Twenty Twenty Six for the BBC, will also recur in a major new series for UKTV, and has numerous short film credits.
Yanexi led in the National Theatre’s production of Ballet Shoes, at the Olivier. The show triumphantly opened to wonderful reviews across the board. She most recently featured in Romans at the Almeida Theatre, directed by Sam Prichard. She led in My Uncle is not Pablo Escobar at Brixton House Theatre, in 2023, and is currently rehearsing the show’s reprisal for spring, and has further exciting stage work upcoming in 2026.
Romans
Yanexi opens in Romans at the Almeida.
★★★★★ Broadway World – ‘Enriquez impresses throughout with her comedic chops’
★★★★ All That Dazzles – ‘Yanexi Enriquez is delightfully cutting’
★★★★ Guardian
★★★ Everything Theatre – ‘Yanexi Enriquez excels with her humour and comic wit’
The Times – ‘awash with outstanding actors’
Ballet Shoes
Yanexi leads in Ballet Shoes at the National Theatre until Feb.
★★★★★
Telegraph – ‘A playful, graceful adaptation – and a palpable hit’
‘Enriquez (almost) steals the show’
WhatsOnStage – ‘springs from page to stage with panache’
Standard – ‘superlative adaptation never puts a foot wrong’
Independent – ‘If you see one show this
Christmas season, make it this’
i – ‘a real Christmas cracker’
★★★★
Times – ‘The National at its best’, ‘Yanexi Enriquez always holds our attention’
Yanexi leads as ‘Sindy-Ella’ in Ola Ince’s South London retelling of Cinderella at Brixton House – trailer for the production here
The Invincibles
My Uncle is not Pablo Escobar
Yanexi leads in My Uncle is not Pablo Escobar at Brixton House, a high-stakes heist, highlighting history, identity and belonging in the Latinx community in South London, which has opened to great reception.
Reviews:
Morning Star – 5* – ‘the outstanding Yanexi Enriquez’
ReviewsHub – 4*
The Stage – 3*