Núria Espert

Núria Espert
File:Nuria Espert en 'Incendios'. Auditorio Roquetas de Mar (cropped).jpg Espert in 2017
Born	Núria Espert Romero (1935-06-11) 11 June 1935 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain
Occupation(s)	Actress and director

Núria Espert Romero (born L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain June 11, 1935) is a theatre and television Spanish actress, and theatre and opera director.

Family and early life

She went to Institut Maragall, a high school in Barcelona, and she started to study theatre while she was taking some courses of music and languages.

When she was 17 years old, she had to substitute the actress Elvira Noriega in the play Medea, that was her first great success.

When she was 19 years old, she married the actor Armando Moreno, who would later become her manager. They both founded a theatre company in 1959, which started in the Teatro Recoletos in Madrid.

Teatre Núria Espert, Sant Andreu de la Barca, Barcelona

As a tribute to this actress, the city of Fuenlabrada named a theatre "Sala Municipal de Teatro Núria Espert".

Prizes

• 1984 Premio Nacional de Teatro
• 2016 Premio Princesa de Asturias de las Artes

Filmography

• 1954: Once pares de botas
• 1958: La tirana
• 1961: A las cinco de la tarde
• 1971: Viva la Muerte
• 1976: La ciutat cremada
• 1991: The House of Bernarda Alba
• 1996: Actresses
• 2003: Soneto
• 2007: Barcelona (un mapa)

Theatre

• 1981: Doña Rosita la soltera
• 1981: Medea
• 1983: The Tempest
• 1985: Salome
• 1990: Maquillaje
• 1998: Master Class
• 1999: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• 2003: La Celestina
• 2006: Play Strindberg
• 2007: Hay que purgar a Totó
• 2009: La casa de Bernarda Alba

External links

• Núria Espert at IMDb