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.
Echegui has been nominated for three Goya Awards in two categories: Best New Actress for My Name Is Juani, and Best Actress for My Prison Yard and Kathmandu Lullaby. At the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, she was one of ten young European actors honoured with the Shooting Stars Award.
Early life
Echegui was born and grew up in Madrid. She trained at the Royal Dramatic Arts School.[1]
Career
She caught the eye of Spanish powerhouse director Bigas Luna, who discovered Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem. He cast her as a girl from the wrong side of the tracks in 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 [2]
She made herself known to British audiences in the Mighty Boosh movie spin-off Bunny and the Bull. Starring alongside Boosh mainstays Noel Fielding, Simon Farnaby and Julian Barratt, she plays a foul-mouthed waitress caught up in a hallucinogenic road trip involving a kidnapped stuffed bear, jars of urine, deranged tramps and suckled dogs. In Roberto Perez Toledo's romantic drama Six Points about Emma she plays a wilful and sexually confident blind woman, while for Manuel Martin Cuenca's sparsely atmospheric Half of Oscar she is a silent, recessive sibling circling her estranged brother, and in Iciar Bollain's Kathmandu Lullaby displays a forthright passion as a teacher trying to help abandoned children in Nepal. [3]
Personal life
Echegui is fluent in Spanish and English. She has been compared to Penélope Cruz for both her looks and her talent.[4] A photo of her by photographer Jorge Fuembuena has been selected to be the official poster of the 23rd Festival of the Spanish Cinema (in French '23ème festival du cinéma espagnol') in Nantes, France.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 2015 | Hunter's Prayer | Dani | |
| 2016 | Me Estas Matando Susana | Susana | Post-production |
| 2016 | Don't Blame the Karma for Being an Idiot | Sara | Filming |
| 2016 | Lasciati andare | Pre-production |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Una nueva vida | Ana | 3 episodes |
| 2003 | Paco y Veva | Isa | 18 episodes |
| 2014 | Cuéntame cómo pasó | Cristina | 1 episode |
| 2014 | Apaches | Carol | 14 episodes |
| 2015 | Fortitude | Elena Ledesma | 11 episodes |
Awards and nominations
| Award | Year | Category | Nominated Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | N/A | Won |
| Spanish Actors Union Awards | 2006 | Best Newcomer | My Name Is Juani | Nominated |
References
- ↑ "Verónica Echegui". Shooting Stars Awards. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
- ↑ http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/the-ice-breaker-ver-nica-echegui-on-her-role-in-new-tv-show-fortitude-and-living-in-london-10012852.html
- ↑ http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/movies/spanish-actress-does-nice-line-as-action-woman-20121114-29cmw.html
- ↑ Wilde, Jon (26 April 2011). "Veronica E & Me". Sabotage Times. Retrieved 2 May 2012.