Verónica Echegui
Verónica Echegui | |
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![]() Echegui in 2016 | |
Born | Verónica Fernández Echegaray 16 June 1983 Madrid, Spain |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 2003–present |
Verónica Fernández Echegaray (born 16 June 1983), known professionally as Verónica Echegui, is a Spanish actress. She has been nominated for three Goya Awards.
Early life
Echegui was born and grew up in Madrid. Her father is a lawyer and her mother a civil servant.[1] In a 2015 interview she said she wanted to be an actress since she was eight but her parents wanted her "to study a career. My great-auntie was dying and told me I had to do what I wanted, although I must not tell my mother".[1] Moving to London, she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.[2] while working as a waitress and as a dog-walker.[1]
Career
Echegui was discovered by Spanish director Bigas Luna, who cast her in the 2006 film My Name Is Juani, for which she was nominated Goya Award for Best New Actress and won multiple awards including Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Actress[1]
In 2009, she made herself known to British audiences in the Mighty Boosh film spin-off Bunny and the Bull. Starring alongside Boosh mainstays Noel Fielding, Simon Farnaby and Julian Barratt, she played a foul-mouthed waitress caught up in a bizarre, hallucinogenic road trip involving a kidnapped stuffed bear, jars of urine, deranged tramps and dogs. At the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, she was one of ten young European actors honoured with the Shooting Stars Award.[citation needed]
In 2012, Craig Mathieson wrote in the Australian entertainment paper The Age "In Roberto Perez Toledo's romantic drama Six Points about Emma she plays a wilful and sexually confident blind woman, while for Manuel Martín Cuenca's sparsely atmospheric Half of Oscar she is a silent, recessive sibling circling her estranged brother, and in Icíar Bollaín's Kathmandu Lullaby she displays a forthright passion as a teacher trying to help abandoned children in Nepal."[3]
In 2018, she made her American television debut appearing in the FX series Trust, playing one of J. Paul Getty's girlfriends, Luciana.[citation needed]
Private life
Echegui is fluent in Spanish, Italian and English. [4]
As of 2015, she was living with her then boyfriend of 4 years, Spanish actor Álex García in Brixton, London.[1]
In 2013, her photo was selected for the official poster of the 23rd Festival of the Spanish Cinema (in French '23ème festival du cinéma espagnol') in Nantes, France.[5]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
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2004 | Cerrojos | Sandra | Short film |
2005 | El álbum blanco | Verónica | Short film |
2006 | Línea 57 | Natalia | Short film |
2006 | My Name Is Juani | Juani | Barcelona Film Award for Best Actress Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Actress Sant Jordi Award for Best Spanish Actress Nominated—Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Newcomer Nominated—Goya Award for Best New Actress Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Actress |
2007 | Un difunto, seis mujeres y un taller | Marta | TV film |
2007 | El menor de los males | Vanesa | Málaga Spanish Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress |
2007 | Tocar el cielo | Elena | |
2008 | 8 citas | Vane | |
2008 | El patio de mi cárcel | Isa | Nominated—Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated—Goya Award for Best Actress |
2008 | La casa de mi padre | Sara | |
2009 | Bunny and the Bull | Eloisa | |
2010 | La mitad de Óscar | María | |
2010 | Tetequiquiero | Sandra | Short film |
2011 | Verbo | Medussa | |
2011 | Seis puntos sobre Emma | Emma | Málaga Spanish Film Festival Award for Best Actress |
2011 | Katmandú, un espejo en el cielo | Laia | Nominated—Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Actress Gaudí Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Nominated—Goya Award for Best Actress |
2012 | The Cold Light of Day | Lucia Caldera | |
2013 | &ME | Edurne | |
2013 | La gran familia española | Edurne | Nominated—Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated—Feroz Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated—Spanish Actors Union for Supporting performance |
2014 | Kamikaze | Nancy | |
2016 | Don't Blame the Karma for Being an Idiot | Sara | |
2016 | You're Killing Me Susana | Susana | |
2017 | The Hunter's Prayer | Dani | |
2017 | Lasciati andare | Claudia | |
2017 | La niebla y la doncella | Ruth Anglada | |
2019 | Unknown Origins | Norma |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2003 | Una nueva vida | Ana | 3 episodes |
2003 | Paco y Veva | Isa | 18 episodes |
2014 | Cuéntame cómo pasó | Cristina | 1 episode |
2015–2017 | Apaches | Carol | 14 episodes |
2015–2017 | Fortitude | Elena Ledesma | 19 episodes |
2018 | Trust | Luciana | Miniseries |
2020 | 3 Caminos[6][7] | Raquel | 6 Episodes |
Awards and nominations
Award | Year | Category | Nominated Work | Result |
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Barcelona Film Awards | 2006 | Best Actress | My Name Is Juani | Won |
Cinema Writers Circle Awards | 2006 | Best Newcomer | My Name Is Juani | Nominated |
2008 | Best Actress | My Prison Yard | Nominated | |
Gaudí Awards | 2011 | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role | Kathmandu Lullaby | Won |
Goya Awards | 2006 | Best New Actress | My Name Is Juani | Nominated |
2006 | Best Actress | My Prison Yard | Nominated | |
2011 | Best Actress | Kathmandu Lullaby | Nominated | |
Milan International Film Festival Awards | 2006 | Best Actress | My Name Is Juani | Won |
Málaga Spanish Film Festival Awards | 2007 | Best Supporting Actress | The Least of the Bad | Won |
Sant Jordi Awards | 2006 | Best Spanish Actress | My Name Is Juani | Won |
Shooting Stars Awards | 2009 | Shooting Star | — | Won |
Spanish Actors Union Awards | 2006 | Best Newcomer | My Name Is Juani | Nominated |
References
- ^ a b c d e Susannah Butter The ice breaker: Verónica Echegui on her role in new TV show Fortitude and living in London The Evening standard, 30 January 2015
- ^ "Verónica Echegui". Shooting Stars Awards. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
- ^ Craig Mathieson Spanish actress does nice line as action woman The Age, 15 November 2012, retrieved 7 June 2017
- ^ Wilde, Jon (26 April 2011). "Veronica E & Me". Sabotage Times. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
- ^ 23ème édition du Festival du Cinéma Espagnol de Nantes France Bleu, 27 March-9 April 2013, retrieved 6June 2017
- ^ https://www.fotogramas.es/series-tv-noticias/a30697211/3caminos-amazon-prime-video-alex-gonzalez-veronica-echegui/
- ^ https://www.fotogramas.es/series-tv-noticias/a32660999/cecilia-suarez-fichaje-3caminos-amazon/
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