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, Kathmandu Lullaby, Family United, Unknown Origins and My Heart Goes Boom!.
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Born | Verónica Fernández Echegaray (1983-06-16) 16 June 1983 (age 39) Madrid, Spain |
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In 2021, she debuted as a director with the short film Tótem loba [es], which won the Goya Award for Best Fictional Short Film.[1]
Verónica Fernández Echegaray (her real name)[2] was born in Madrid on 16 June 1983.[3] Her father is a lawyer and her mother a civil servant.[4] 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".[4] Moving to London, she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts,[5] while working as a waitress and as a dog-walker.[4]
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 and won multiple awards including Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Actress[4]
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. At the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, she was one of ten young European actors honoured with the Shooting Stars Award.[citation needed]
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."[6]
In 2018, she made her American television debut appearing in the FX series Trust, playing one of J. Paul Getty's girlfriends, Luciana.[citation needed]
Echegui is fluent in Spanish, Italian and English. [7]
As of 2015, she was living with her then boyfriend of 4 years, Spanish actor Álex García in Brixton, London.[4]
In 2013, her photo was selected for the official poster of the 23rd Festival of the Spanish Cinema (in French '23ème festival du cinéma espagnol') in Nantes, France.[8]
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Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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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 (Touch the Sky) | Elena | [9] | |
2008 | 8 citas (8 Dates) | 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 | ||
2016 | Don't Blame the Karma for Being an Idiot | Sara | ||
2016 | You're Killing Me Susana | Susana | ||
2017 | The Hunter's Prayer | Dani | ||
2017 | Lasciati andare | Claudia | ||
2017 | La niebla y la doncella | Ruth Anglada | ||
2019 | Unknown Origins | Norma | ||
2020 | L'ofrena (The Offering) | Rita | [10] | |
Explota explota (My Heart Goes Boom!) | Amparo | Character features a Murcian Spanish accent | [11] | |
2021 | More the Merrier | Ana | ||
2022 | Book of Love | Maria | ||
Historias para no contar (Stories Not to Be Told) | Sofía | [12] | ||
Objetos (Lost & Found) | Helena | [13] |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref |
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2003 | Una nueva vida | Ana | 3 episodes | |
2003 | Paco y Veva | Isa | 18 episodes | |
2014 | Cuéntame cómo pasó | Cristina | 1 episode | |
2015–17 | Fortitude | Elena Ledesma | 19 episodes | |
2017 | Apaches | Carol | [14] | |
2018 | Trust | Luciana | Miniseries | |
2020 | 3 Caminos[15][16] | Raquel | 6 Episodes | |
2022 | Intimidad (Intimacy) | Ane | [17] | |
TBA | Los pacientes del doctor García | Amparo Priego | [18] |
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
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2007 | 21st Goya Awards | Best New Actress | My Name Is Juani | Nominated | [19] |
51st Sant Jordi Awards | Best Spanish Actress | Won | [20] | ||
16th Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best New Actress | Nominated | [21][22] | ||
2009 | 23rd Goya Awards | Best Actress | My Prison Yard | Nominated | [23] |
2012 | 4th Gaudí Awards | Best Actress | Kathmandu Lullaby | Won | [24][25] |
26th Goya Awards | Best Actress | Nominated | [26] | ||
2014 | 1st Feroz Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Family United | Nominated | [27] |
23rd Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Film Actress in a Secondary Role | Nominated | [28][29] | ||
2021 | 8th Feroz Awards | Best Supporting Actress | My Heart Goes Boom! | Won | [30] |
35th Goya Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | [31] | ||
2006 | Milan International Film Festival Awards | Best Actress | My Name Is Juani | Won | [citation needed] |
2007 | Málaga Film Festival | Best Supporting Actress | The Least of the Bad | Won | [citation needed] |
2009 | 59th Berlin International Film Festival | Shooting Stars Awards | — | Won | [citation needed] |
2006 | Barcelona Film Awards | Best Actress | My Name Is Juani | Won | [citation needed] |
2006 | CEC Medals | Best Newcomer | My Name Is Juani | Nominated | [citation needed] |
2008 | CEC Medals | Best Actress | My Prison Yard | Nominated | [citation needed] |
2021 | 13th Gaudí Awards | Best Supporting Actress | The Offering | Won | [32] |
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