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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Verónica Echegui
Echegui in 2016
Born	Verónica Fernández Echegaray (1983-06-16) 16 June 1983 (age 39) Madrid, Spain
Occupation	Actress film director

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]

Early life

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]

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 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]}

Private life

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]

Filmography

Key

Denotes works that have not yet been released

Film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
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]

Accolades

References

External links

• Verónica Echegui at IMDb

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