Verónica Echegui Explained

Birth Name:Verónica Fernández Echegaray
Birth Date:1983 6, df=yes
Birth Place:Madrid, Spain

Verónica Fernández Echegaray (born 16 June 1983), known professionally as Verónica Echegui, is a Spanish actress. Since making her feature film debut as the title character of the 2006 drama My Name Is Juani she has featured in films such as My Prison Yard (2008), Kathmandu Lullaby (2012), Family United (2013), Unknown Origins (2020), My Heart Goes Boom! (2020), and The Offering (2020).

She has also featured in television series such as Apaches (2017), Intimacy (2022) and The Patients of Dr. García (2023).

In 2020, her short film and directorial debut Tótem loba was released.

Early life

Verónica Fernández Echegaray[1] was born in Madrid on 16 June 1983.[2] Her father is a lawyer and her mother a civil servant. 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". Moving to London, she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts,[3] while working as a waitress and as a dog-walker.

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; she portrayed the title character, a 18-year-old woman who moves to Madrid to pursue her dreams of becoming an actress.[4] [5] The European Film Promotion Jury selected Echegui as one of ten up-and-coming European actors to be honoured with the 2009 Shooting Stars Award.[6]

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.

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."[7] In 2018, she made her American television debut appearing in the FX series Trust, playing one of J. Paul Getty's girlfriends, Luciana.In 2020, she portrayed hard-boiled cop and cosplay-loving Norma in Unknown Origins.[8] [9]

In 2021, she debuted as a director with the short film , which won the Goya Award for Best Fictional Short Film.[10]

Personal life

Echegui is fluent in Spanish, Italian and English.[11]

As of 2015, she was living with her then boyfriend of 4 years, Spanish actor Álex García in Brixton, London.[5]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2006Yo soy la Juani (My Name Is Juani)Juani[12]
2007El menor de los males (The Lesser Evil)Vanesa[13]
Tocar el cielo (Touch the Sky)Elena[14]
20088 citas (8 Dates)Vane[15]
El patio de mi cárcel (My Prison Yard)Isa[16]
Sara[17]
2009Bunny and the BullEloisa[18]
2010La mitad de Óscar (Half of Oscar)María[19]
2011VerboMedussa[20]
Seis puntos sobre Emma (Six Points About Emma)Emma[21]
2012Katmandú, un espejo en el cielo (Kathmandu Lullaby)Laia[22]
The Cold Light of DayLucia[23]
2013&MEEdurne[24]
La gran familia española (Family United)Cris[25]
2014KamikazeNancy[26]
2016Me estás matando, Susana (You're Killing Me Susana)Susana [27]
No culpes al karma de lo que te pasa por gilipollas (Don't Blame the Karma for Being an Idiot)Sara[28]
2017La niebla y la doncella (The Mist and the Maiden)Ruth Anglada [29]
(Let Yourself Go)Claudia [30]
The Hunter's PrayerDani
2019Orígenes secretos (Unknown Origins)Norma[31]
2020L'ofrena (The Offering) Rita [32]
Explota explota (My Heart Goes Boom!) Amparo Character features a Murcian Spanish accent [33]
2021Donde caben dos (More the Merrier)Ana[34]
2022Book of LoveMaria Rodríguez[35]
Historias para no contar (Stories Not to Be Told) Sofía [36]
Objetos (Lost & Found) Helena [37]
Yo no soy esa Susana
(Artificial Justice) Carmen Costa [38]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2003Una nueva vidaAna3 episodes
2003Paco y VevaIsa18 episodes
2007Un difunto, seis mujeres y un tallerMartaTV movie
2014Cuéntame cómo pasóCristina1 episode
2015–17FortitudeElena Ledesma19 episodes
2017Apaches Carol [39]
2018TrustLucianaMiniseries
20203 Caminos[40] [41] Raquel6 episodes
2022 Intimidad (Intimacy) Ane 8 episodes [42]
2023 Los pacientes del doctor García (The Patients of Dr. García) Amparo Priego [43]

Accolades

YearAwardCategoryWorkResult
2007Best NewcomerMy Name Is Juani[44]
Best New Actress[45]
Best Spanish Actress [46]
Best New Actress[47] [48]
Best Supporting Actress The Lesser Evil [49]
2009Best ActressMy Prison Yard[50]
Best Actress[51]
20124th Gaudí AwardsBest Actress Kathmandu Lullaby[52] [53]
Best Actress[54]
2014 Family United [55]
Best Film Actress in a Secondary Role [56] [57]
2021 My Heart Goes Boom [58]
Best Supporting Actress[59]
Best Supporting Actress The Offering [60]
Intimacy

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Diez datos que no conocías de Verónica Echegui. Los 40. Alberto. Sisí. 22 January 2018.
  2. Web site: Cómo ser actriz sin darse cuenta. El País. 25 September 2017. Manuel. Vicent.
  3. News: Verónica Echegui . Shooting Stars Awards . 2 May 2012.
  4. Web site: Verónica Echegui y Dani Martín, protagonistas de 'Yo Soy la Juani' en La 1. Europa Press. 11 July 2009.
  5. 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
  6. Web site: EFP jury chooses 2009 Shooting Stars. The Hollywood Reporter. 9 December 2008. Scott. Roxborough.
  7. Craig Mathieson Spanish actress does nice line as action woman The Age, 15 November 2012, retrieved 7 June 2017
  8. Web site: 'Orígenes secretos': con f de friki. El Correo. 28 August 2020. Borja. Crespo.
  9. Web site: 'Orígenes secretos': la divertida película de estreno de Javier Rey en Netflix. Diez Minutos. 28 August 2020. Marisa. García.
  10. Web site: 'Tótem loba', el significado del corto que Verónica Echegui quiere que vea Pedro Sánchez. rtve.es. 23 May 2022.
  11. News: Sabotage Times . Veronica E & Me . 2 May 2012 . 26 April 2011 . Jon . Wilde.
  12. Web site: 'Versión española' se suma en la Seminci al homenaje a Bigas Luna con 'Yo soy la Juani'. rtve.es. 21 October 2022.
  13. Web site: "El menor de los males", en cartelera en once localidades. La Voz de Galicia. 9 May 2008. María Dolores. López.
  14. Web site: Variety. Jonathan. Holland. Touch the Sky. 27 September 2007.
  15. Web site: Ayuntamiento de Madrid. XXIX Semana del Cine Español en Carabanchel. 2009. 24 September 2023.
  16. Web site: 'Versión Española' estrena 'El patio de mi cárcel', una historia de mujeres protagonizada por Verónica Echegui. rtve.es. 12 January 2014.
  17. Web site: Versión Española estrena 'La casa de mi padre', de Gorka Merchán. rtve.es. 6 June 2017.
  18. Web site: Bunny and the Bull: an underrated comedy from the minds behind the Mighty Boosh and Paddington. The Guardian. 11 October 2022. Adam. Fleet.
  19. Web site: Verónica Echegui, Rodrigo Saénz de Heredia y Antonio de la Torre en 'La mitad de Óscar'. Europa Press. 15 March 2011.
  20. Web site: Cine de acción y ciencia ficción con 'Verbo'. Noticias de Navarra. 3 November 2011.
  21. Book: Ledesma, Eduardo. https://books.google.com/books?id=_7pTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA340. 340. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Films. Seis puntos sobre Emma (Six Points About Emma) (2011). Rowman & Littlefield. Salvador. 2018. Jimenez Murguía. 9781442271326. Alex. Pinar.
  22. Web site: El Cultural. El Español. Katmandú, un espejo en el cielo. 30 January 2012.
  23. Web site: For Spy’s Family, a Bad Trip. Stephen. Holden. 7 September 2012. The New York Times. Stephen Holden.
  24. Web site: &ME – Norbert ter Hall. NU.nl. 13 March 2013.
  25. La gran familia española (Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, 2023). Universitat de Barcelona. Barcelona. Esther. Soler Molina. Filmhistoria Online. 23. 2. 2014-668X.
  26. Web site: Un canto a la vida pasado por nieve. Fotogramas. 27 March 2014. Pere. Vall.
  27. Web site: Verónica Echegui protagoniza una relación tóxica, "típica de la sociedad heteropatriarcal" en 'Me estás matando Susana'. Europa Press. 19 December 2017.
  28. Web site: Verónica Echegui da vida a una 'Bridget Jones' de Malasaña en 'No culpes al karma de lo que te pasa por gilipollas'. Europa Press. 30 March 2017.
  29. Web site: Mord auf La Gomera. ZDF. 12 September 2022.
  30. Web site: Film Review: ‘Let Yourself Go. Variety. 1 March 2018. Jay. Weissberg.
  31. Web site: 'Orígenes secretos': superhéroes de aquí. El Periódico de Catalunya. 27 August 2020. Beatriz. Martínez.
  32. Web site: Ventura Durall estrena L'Ofrena, un thriller psicológico que ahonda en la culpa y el perdón. 20minutos.es. 17 September 2020.
  33. Web site: La razón de que Verónica Echegui hable con acento murciano en 'Explota Explota'. Los 40. 2 October 2020. Alberto. Palo Murcia.
  34. Web site: Los estrenos del 30 de julio. 'Donde caben dos'. Viviendo la noche loca. Aisge. 27 July 2021. Alberto. Úbeda-Portugués.
  35. Web site: ‘Book of Love’ Review: An Imperfect Yet Lovable Rom-Com of Modest Pleasures. Variety. 4 February 2022. Tomris. Laffly.
  36. Web site: Historias para no contar. Filmax. 25 September 2022.
  37. Web site: Verónica Echegui: "La cosificación entre humanos es terrorífica, pero real". La Razón. Concha. García. 29 September 2022.
  38. Web site: Comienza el rodaje de 'Justicia artificial', participada por RTVE. rtve.es. 18 November 2022.
  39. Web site: 'Apaches' en femenino: Ingrid García Jonsson y Verónica Echegui pisan fuerte en la serie de Antena 3. Diez Minutos. M.J.. Andrés. A.. Mingo. 15 January 2018.
  40. Web site: '3Caminos': Así es la nueva serie de Amazon Prime Video con Álex González y Verónica Echegui. 29 January 2020.
  41. Web site: Cecilia Suárez se une a la serie de Amazon '3Caminos'. 25 May 2020.
  42. Web site: ‘Intimidad’, la serie de Netflix que busca culpables en el porno de venganza. Cinemanía. 20minutos.es. 10 June 2022. Andrea G.. Bermejo.
  43. Web site: Entrevista a Verónica Echegui por 'Los pacientes del doctor García'. Fotogramas. 23 February 2022. Juan. Silvestre.
  44. Web site: Medallas del CEC a la producción española de 2006. Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos. https://web.archive.org/web/20200730062349/http://www.cinecec.com/EDITOR/premios/palmares/2006.htm . 24 September 2023. 2020-07-30.
  45. Web site: 21 June 2022. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. premiosgoya. Yo soy la Juani.
  46. Web site: 'El Laberinto del Fauno' y 'Buenas noches, buena suerte', premios Sant Jordi de cine. La Vanguardia. 21 March 2007.
  47. Web site: 'Volver' y 'Así es (si así os parece)', las favoritas a los premios Unión de Actores. El Mundo. 5 January 2007.
  48. Web site: La Unión de Actores premia `Volver´, `El método Grönholm´ y `Mujeres´. La Opinión de La Coruña. 13 February 2007.
  49. Web site: 'Bajo las estrellas', ganadora del X Festival de Cine Español de Málaga. Diario Sur. Grupo Vocento. 17 March 2007.
  50. Web site: Medallas del CEC a la producción española de 2006. Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos. https://web.archive.org/web/20200801192118/http://www.cinecec.com/EDITOR/premios/palmares/2008.htm . 24 September 2023. 2020-08-01.
  51. Web site: 21 June 2022. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. premiosgoya. El patio de mi cárcel.
  52. Web site: Nominades - IV Premis Gaudí. Acadèmia del Cinema Català. 15 February 2022.
  53. Web site: 'Mientras duermes', 'Eva', 'Chico & Rita' y 'Katmandú', participadas por TVE, conquistan 14 Premios Gaudí. RTVE. 7 February 2012.
  54. Web site: 21 June 2022. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. premiosgoya. Katmandú. Un espejo en el cielo.
  55. Web site: Lista de ganadores de los Premios Feroz 2014. Ecartelera. 28 January 2014. Jesús. Agudo.
  56. Web site: Vertele!. eldiario.es. 'El tiempo entre costuras' e 'Isabel' dominan en las nominaciones de la Unión de Actores. 10 February 2014.
  57. Web site: Antonio de la Torre y Susi Sánchez triunfan en los premios de la Unión de Actores. 11 March 2014. Fotogramas.
  58. Web site: Estos son los ganadores de los Premios Feroz de 2021: la lista completa, por categorías. El Confidencial. 2 March 2021.
  59. Web site: 21 June 2022. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. premiosgoya. Explota explota.
  60. Web site: Premios Gaudí 2021: todos los ganadores. Fotogramas. 22 March 2021. Juan. Silvestre.

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