[1] She won the Goya Award for Best Actress for her leading performance in drama film The Endless Trench (2019).

She moved to Málaga and her childhood and adolescence was spent in Fuengirola, where she studied at the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático.

[es], Ángel o demonio, Palomitas and films such as Hierro, Operación Malaya and Perro flaco, she landed her first stable television role in 2012, when she joined period drama daily television series Bandolera to portray Elisa de Vega, a wealthy woman.

[5] Her role as Magüi Moreno, assistant to the title character in the aforementioned series, earned her great popularity with some of her lines becoming viral.

[9][10][11][5] From 2012 to early 2023, Cuesta was in a relationship with actor Tamar Novas, whom she met during the filming of Bandolera.