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Irene Visedo

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Irene Visedo
(2010)
Born
Irene Visedo Herrero

(1978-07-16) 16 July 1978 (age 46)
Madrid, Spain
OccupationActress

Irene Visedo Herrero (born 16 July 1978) is a Spanish actress who became popular in Spain for her performance as Inés Alcántara in the TV series Cuéntame cómo pasó.

Biography

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Born in Madrid on 16 July 1978.[1] She started training as an actress when she was 14 years old, although her first chance at a feature film did not come until she was 18, with a performance in El ángel de la Guarda (1996).[2][3]

Visedo's first leading role in a film came with Cascabel (2000),[2] a coming-of-age story of two friends (Cascabel and Luz) who want to leave their past behind and succeed in the world of music.[4] Her performance won her the Best New Actress Award at the Toulouse's Cinespaña Film Festival.[2][5]

She starred in Guillermo del Toro's El Espinazo del Diablo (The Devil's Backbone), a 2001 Spanish-Mexican gothic horror film where she played Conchita, a young teacher.[6][7] She also played the role of Mónica Erigaray in Los pasos perdidos (The Lost Steps), a Spanish-Argentine production also released in 2001.[6][8]

Visedo joined the cast of the new drama series Cuéntame cómo pasó (originally set in 1968), aired on La 1 since 2001.[9] She played the character of Inés Alcántara, the older sibling of the Alcántara family, a "nonconformist spirit" who originally worked as hairdresser.[9][10] The role marked her artistic career and earned her popularity.[11]

She starred together with Hugo Silva and María Valverde in El hombre de arena (2007), a love story set in an inverosimile location (a Francoist psychiatric hospital in Extremadura),[12] and where she played the role of Carmen, a doctor seeking to reform the institution.[13] In 2007, after more than one hundred episodes, Visedo decided to leave Cuéntame and to focus on her film career.[14][15] Years later, in 2010, the vacant role of Inés Alcántara would be recast for Pilar Punzano, whom Visedo shares a reasonable physical resemblance and whom with Visedo had previously shared a leading role in Cascabel.[14][2][n. 1] After her first spell in Cuéntame, Visedo appeared in the family film Carlitos y el campo de los sueños (2008), playing the role of Maite, a cook who helps the lead character, an orphan child who just dreams about having a family and playing football.[17][18][19]

Visedo at the 59th Valladolid International Film Festival (2014)

Visedo also starred in La mujer del anarquista (The Anarchist's Wife), a romantic drama set in the Spanish Civil War and the Post-War period, where she played the adult version of Paloma (the child and teenage versions of Paloma were respectively played by Alba Barragán and Ivana Baquero).[20] She also had a leading role in Los amores locos (2009),[21] for which she won an award at the 14th Spanish Film Festival of Toulouse.[22]

In 2010, she starred in La duquesa [es], a biopic miniseries where Visedo portrayed a young version of Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart (the older version of the Duchess of Alba was played by Adriana Ozores).[23] She starred together with Gustavo Salmerón in the psychological thriller La Senda, were both performers play a troubled couple paying a visit to a remoted cabin in the woods in order to get their marriage back on track.[24]

In 2015, after Pilar Punzano was not renewed in Cuéntame—not free from controversy and acrimonious crossed accusations between Punzano and the rest of the cast—[25] Visedo was offered her former role as Inés Alcántara. She thus returned to the series, then at its 17th season, when the fiction was set in 1984.[26][27]

Filmography

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Film
Year Title Role Notes Ref
2000 Cascabel Cascabel [2]
2001 El Espinazo del Diablo (The Devil's Backbone) Conchita [7]
2001 Los pasos perdidos (The Lost Steps) Mónica Erigaray [8]
2007 El hombre de arena (The Sandman) Carmen [13]
2008 Carlitos y el campo de los sueños [es] Maite [18]
2008 La mujer del anarquista (The Anarchist's Wife) Paloma Adult version of the character. Child and teenage versions played by Alba Barragán and Ivana Baquero [20]
2009 Amores locos [ca] Julia [21]
2012 La senda Ana [24]
Television
Year Title Role Notes Ref
2001–2008; 2015–2021 Cuéntame cómo pasó Inés Alcántara The character was played between 2010 and 2015 by Pilar Punzano [es] [14]
2010 La duquesa [es] Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart TV Miniseries. Young version of the character. Mature version played by Adriana Ozores. [23]

References

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Informational notes
  1. ^ In a 2008 special episode of Cuéntame, the character of Inés Alcántara had been already played by Marieta Orozco [es], although the actress did not show her face on-screen.[16]
Citations
  1. ^ Rosado, Juan Carlos (20 January 2016). "Irene Visedo: "He vuelto a hacer de Inés porque me apetece trabajar ahora más que antes"". El Periódico.
  2. ^ a b c d e Catalá, Laura (16 September 2018). "La carrera como actriz de Irene Visedo a través de sus 4 papeles más importantes". Bekia.
  3. ^ Palmero, M. (26 March 2015). "Irene Visedo, la mujer con quien comparte techo Sandra Barneda". Vanitatis. El Confidencial.
  4. ^ Castilla, Amelia (4 February 2000). "Daniel Cebrián debuta con una película sobre la juventud rural". El País.
  5. ^ Reviriego, Carlos (6 February 2000). "Cebrián: los sueños de la adolescencia". El Cultural.
  6. ^ a b Devesa, Dolores; Potes, Alicia (2003). "Federico Luppi. Filmografía". Nosferatu. pp. 104–105. ISSN 1131-9372.
  7. ^ a b "Mañana sigue ciclo de cine "Jorge Aiguadé"". ABC Color. 19 September 2004.
  8. ^ a b "Conflicto de identidades, enfermedad y búsqueda de raíces, en la cuarta jornada de la Seminci". Libertad Digital. 29 October 2001.
  9. ^ a b Pujol, Edurne (25 January 2018). "Así ha cambiado la vida de los míticos personajes de 'Cuéntame cómo pasó'". El Español.
  10. ^ "Irene Visedo volverá a ser Inés Alcántara en "Cuéntame cómo pasó"". ABC. 27 July 2015.
  11. ^ "Irene Visedo vuelve a ser Inés Alcántara en 'Cuéntame como pasó'". Levante-EMV. 27 July 2015.
  12. ^ "Una historia de amor en un centro mental extremeño llega a los cines". El Periódico Extremadura. 6 November 2007.
  13. ^ a b "Malos hábitos". El Tiempo. 6 June 2008.
  14. ^ a b c Veiga, Yolanda (8 August 2015). "¿Inés o Inés?". El Comercio.
  15. ^ Redondo, David (27 July 2015). "Vuelve la Inés Alcántara original a 'Cuéntame'". Cadena Ser.
  16. ^ Díaz, Fátima (19 February 2015). "Personajes con dos (o más) caras como Inés Alcántara". Diario de Sevilla.
  17. ^ Perezagua, Irene (19 August 2008). "La película 'Carlitos y el campo de sueños' recupera el género de la comedia familiar". El Norte de Castilla.
  18. ^ a b Calleja, Pedro (18 August 2008). "Oliver Twist futbolístico". El Mundo.
  19. ^ "Ha estado con nosotros... Irene Visedo". El Mundo. 29 August 2008.
  20. ^ a b Pando, Juan (20 January 2009). "De derrota en derrota". El Mundo.
  21. ^ a b "Los 'Amores locos' de Irene Visedo y Eduard Fernández". Europa Press. 18 February 2010.
  22. ^ "El festival de Toulouse premia a 'Ander', de Roberto Castón". El Mundo. 12 October 2009.
  23. ^ a b "Harán otro episodio de 'La Duquesa'". Hoy. 25 April 2010.
  24. ^ a b ""La senda" abre el camino cinematográfico de Miguel Ángel Toledo". El Día. 28 February 2013.
  25. ^ Piñeiro, Raquel (8 September 2015). "Cuéntame cómo pasó o el drama real detrás del drama ficticio". Vanity Fair.
  26. ^ "La actriz Irene Visedo vuelve a 'Cuéntame cómo pasó'". El País. 27 July 2015.
  27. ^ Alfonso, Miguel Ángel (30 November 2015). "Irene Visedo: "No comparto las opiniones de Punzano"". El Diario Vasco.