Verónica Echegui

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!.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Fernández and the second or maternal family name is Echegaray.
Verónica Echegui
Echegui in 2016
Born
Verónica Fernández Echegaray

(1983-06-16) 16 June 1983
Madrid, Spain
Occupations
  • Actress
  • film director

In 2021, she debuted as a director with the short film Tótem loba, 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]

Echegui together with fellow cast members of &Me Mark Waschke and Teun Luijkx

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.

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.

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
Not yet released Denotes works that have not yet been released

Film
Year Title Role Notes Ref.
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 (Half of Oscar) María [10]
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 (The Mist and the Maiden) Ruth Anglada [11]
2019 Orígenes secretos (Unknown Origins) Norma [12]
2020 L'ofrena (The Offering)Rita[13]
Explota explota (My Heart Goes Boom!)AmparoCharacter features a Murcian Spanish accent[14]
2021 More the Merrier Ana
2022 Book of Love Maria
Historias para no contar (Stories Not to Be Told)Sofía[15]
Objetos (Lost & Found)Helena[16]
TBAJusticia artificialCarmen Costa[17]

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 ApachesCarol[18]
2018 Trust Luciana Miniseries
2020 3 Caminos[19][20] Raquel 6 episodes
2022Intimidad (Intimacy)Ane8 episodes[21]
2023Los pacientes del doctor García (The Patients of Dr. García)Amparo Priego[22]

Accolades
Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
2007 21st Goya Awards Best New Actress My Name Is Juani Nominated [23]
51st Sant Jordi AwardsBest Spanish ActressWon[24]
16th Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best New Actress Nominated [25][26]
2009 23rd Goya Awards Best Actress My Prison Yard Nominated [27]
2012 4th Gaudí Awards Best Actress Kathmandu Lullaby Won [28][29]
26th Goya Awards Best Actress Nominated [30]
20141st Feroz AwardsBest Supporting ActressFamily UnitedNominated[31]
23rd Actors and Actresses Union AwardsBest Film Actress in a Secondary RoleNominated[32][33]
2021 8th Feroz Awards Best Supporting ActressMy Heart Goes Boom!Won[34]
35th Goya Awards Best Supporting Actress Nominated [35]
2006 Milan International Film Festival Awards Best Actress My Name Is Juani Won
2007 Málaga Film Festival Best Supporting Actress The Least of the Bad Won
2009 59th Berlin International Film Festival Shooting Stars Awards — Won
2006 Barcelona Film Awards Best Actress My Name Is Juani Won
2006 CEC Medals Best Newcomer My Name Is Juani Nominated
2008 CEC Medals Best Actress My Prison Yard Nominated
2021 13th Gaudí AwardsBest Supporting ActressThe OfferingWon[36]

References
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