Actress Verónica Echegui dies, an inevitable presence of Spanish cinema in recent decades | Culture

Actress Verónica Fernández de Echegaray, better known as Verónica Echegui, died this Sunday at 42 in Madrid on Sunday, according to sources from her environment to this newspaper. Born in Madrid in 1983, Echegui stood out from its versatility and its ability to give life to complex and authentic characters, winning respect for the public and critics.

He jumped to glory with his leading role in I am Juani (2006), a comedy by Bigas Luna which earned her a appointment of Goya for the best Apocalypse actress and launched one of the most prolific breeds of recent Spanish cinema. In The patio of my prison (2008) played a young prey, a performance that deserved an appointment for the Goya Awards. In Kathmandú, a mirror in the sky (2011), produced by Icíar Bollaín, embodied a Catalan professor who goes to Nepal to teach in a school in the poorest neighborhoods of Kathmandú. For these two films, she was nominated as the best main actress in the Goya. As a director, she won the prize for the best fiction short film in 2022 with Wolf.

More recently, he had participated as an actress Artificial justice (2024), and thriller politician in which he plays a judge who discovers a conspiracy linked to artificial intelligence in the judicial system. Other exceptional films in his filmography include The large Spanish family (2013), He explodes (2020) y Objects (2022). In addition, he worked on series like Confidentiality (2022) y Dr. Garcia patients (2023).

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