Verónica Echegui
Actor
Es una actriz española nacida en Madrid en 1983. Es conocida principalmente por sus trabajos en el cine y la televisión. Estudió interpretación en la Real Escuela de Arte Dramático de Madrid durante dos años. Sus primeros trabajos fueron el la televisión, donde participó de manera esporádica en series como 'Una nueva vida' o 'Paco y Vera'. En 2006 saltó a la fama por protagonizar la película 'Yo soy la Juani', dirigida por Bigas Luna. Por dicho papel fue nominada al Goya a mejor actriz revelación. Posteriormente se ha dedicado básicamente al cine, donde ha participado en películas como 'El patio de mi cárcel' o 'Katmandú, un espejo en el cielo' de Icíar Bollaín. Por ambas películas fue nominada al Goya a mejor actriz principal; además ganó el Premio Gaudí de la Academia del cine catalana a mejor actriz protagonista por 'Katmandú, un espejo en el cielo'. La hemos podido ver en diversas películas españolas como 'Seis puntos sobre Emma', 'La ... Show more...
Es una actriz española nacida en Madrid en 1983. Es conocida principalmente por sus trabajos en el cine y la televisión. Estudió interpretación en la Real Escuela de Arte Dramático de Madrid durante dos años. Sus primeros trabajos fueron el la televisión, donde participó de manera esporádica en series como 'Una nueva vida' o 'Paco y Vera'. En 2006 saltó a la fama por protagonizar la película 'Yo soy la Juani', dirigida por Bigas Luna. Por dicho papel fue nominada al Goya a mejor actriz revelación. Posteriormente se ha dedicado básicamente al cine, donde ha participado en películas como 'El patio de mi cárcel' o 'Katmandú, un espejo en el cielo' de Icíar Bollaín. Por ambas películas fue nominada al Goya a mejor actriz principal; además ganó el Premio Gaudí de la Academia del cine catalana a mejor actriz protagonista por 'Katmandú, un espejo en el cielo'. La hemos podido ver en diversas películas españolas como 'Seis puntos sobre Emma', 'La gran familia española' o 'Kamikaze'. En el terreno televisivo, participó en la decimoquinta temporada de la serie 'Cuéntame como pasó' de Televisión Española. En 2015 aparece series como 'Apaches' de Antena 3, o 'Fortitude' de la cadena británica Sky Atlantic.
Entre los numerosos reconocimientos que ha recibido destacan el premio a mejor actriz en el Festival de Cine de Málaga por su papel en 'Seis Puntos sobre Emma' y otro a mejor actriz de reparto por la película 'El menor de los males' en el mismo festival. También ha conseguido diversos premios por su interpretación en la película 'Yo soy la Juani', como el de mejor actriz en los Premios de Cine de Barcelona y en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Milán. Además ha estado nominada a diversos premios del Circulo de escritores cinematográficos de España o a los premios de la Unión de actores, además de las tres nominaciones a los premios Goya.
En el terreno personal, mantiene una relación sentimental con el también actor Álex García. Show less...
Filmography - Acting
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Explota Explota (2020)
As: Amparo
Directed by: Nacho Álvarez
Stars: Verónica Echegui | Pedro Casablanc | Natalia Millán | Ingrid García Jonsson | Fernando Guallar
Orígenes secretos (2020)
As: Norma
Heroes do not exist. David, a young policeman who has recently moved to Madrid, is forced to collaborate with Jorge Elías - an endearing freak and owner of a comic book shop - in order to solve a series of atrocious murders that recreate the secret origins of the classic superheroes. Each grotesque murder is a piece of a jigsaw puzzle that has the streets of Madrid as a backdrop, but whose ...
Directed by: David Galán Galindo
Stars: Antonio Resines | Verónica Echegui | Álex García | Javier Rey | Brays Efe
L'ofrena (2020)
Directed by: Ventura Durall
Stars: Àlex Brendemühl | Verónica Echegui | Pablo Molinero | Anna Alarcón | Claudia Riera
La visita (2017)
As: Gabrielle
Directed by: Javier Ruiz de Arcaute
Stars: Verónica Echegui | Edna Fontana
La reunión (2017)
As: Gabrielle
Directed by: Javier Ruiz de Arcaute
Stars: Verónica Echegui | Raquel Pérez
La niebla y la doncella (2017)
As: Anglada
The corpse of a young man appears in a forest on the island of La Gomera. The case closes with the accusation to a local politician who is exonerated in the later judgment. Three years later, Sergeant Bevilaqua and his assistant, Corporal Chamorro, are sent to the island to revive the investigation. Corporal Anglada accompanies them, the last one who saw the young man alive.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Andrés M. Koppel
Stars: Aura Garrido | Quim Gutiérrez | Roberto Álamo | Verónica Echegui | Marian Álvarez
Hunter's Prayer (2017)
As: Dani
An assassin forges an unlikely partnership with one of his targets: a woman seeking revenge for the murder of her family.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Mostow
Stars: Sam Worthington | Amy Landecker | Verónica Echegui | Odeya Rush | Dean S. Jagger
Let Yourself Go (2017)
As: Claudia
Elia, a depressed jewish psychoanalyst, one day meets Claudia, a young and eccentric personal trainer.
Directed by: Francesco Amato
Stars: Carla Signoris | Luca Marinelli | Toni Servillo | Verónica Echegui | Carlo Luca De Ruggieri
No culpes al karma de lo que te pasa por gilipollas (2016)
As: Sara
The lives of a Madrid-based feather-fashion designer and her whole family's completely tumbles after the appearance of a musician long-lost high school crush who is involved with her model sister.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: María Ripoll
Stars: Verónica Echegui | Jordi Sánchez | Álex García | David Verdaguer | Alba Galocha
Deserted Cities (2015)
As: Susana
It is the journey of an educated man from Mexico City to the center of the United States, with its rigid society, its frigid winter, but most of all, it is an inner journey to face the contradictions between his love for his wife and the macho baggage he carries with him. It is a voyage of growth, funny and painful.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Roberto Sneider
Stars: Gael García Bernal | Verónica Echegui | Barbara Garrick | Ashley Grace | Hlyunr Harraldson
Kamikaze (2014)
As: Nancy
Slastan, a Karadjistan man, is willing to blow himself up aboard a Moscow plane bound for Madrid, but his plan is complicated when, due to a snowstorm, the flight is delayed. Staying in a hotel, the terrorist will have to live with the 332 people who he will kill until the storm ceases, which prevents him from continuing his mission. Slastan knows, speaks and relates to his future victims and begins to ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Álex Pina
Stars: Carmen Machi | Verónica Echegui | Héctor Alterio | Álex García | Leticia Dolera
Family United (2013)
As: Cris
The director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo ('Azuloscurocasinegro', 'Cousins'), he embarks on a new comedy that has as a backdrop the World Cup in South Africa and the setting is a wedding that takes precisely the day of the final. This will be the occasion in which five brothers, all with biblical names, Adam, Daniel, Caleb, Benjamin and Ephraim, gather to celebrate the engagement of Ephraim, the youngest ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Stars: Antonio de la Torre | Quim Gutiérrez | Roberto Álamo | Verónica Echegui | Patrick Criado
&Me (2013)
As: Edurne
Three loners from Sitges, Berlin and Amsterdam try to blend together in Brussels, city of unification.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Norbert ter Hall
Stars: Rossy de Palma | Mark Waschke | Verónica Echegui | Teun Luijkx | Rafael Cebrian
The Cold Light of Day (2012)
As: Lucia
After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence agents looking to recover a mysterious briefcase.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Mabrouk El Mechri
Stars: Bruce Willis | Sigourney Weaver | Henry Cavill | Verónica Echegui | Caroline Goodall
Katmandú, a mirror in the sky (2011)
As: Laia
Laia, a young Catalan teacher, moves to Kathmandu in the early 90's, to volunteer in a local school. She will soon discover extreme poverty and a devastatingly bleak educational system that leaves out the most needy. She initially protests and later decides to get married out of convenience, so as to legalize her situation and take on an ambitious educational project in the slums of Kathmandu. ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Icíar Bollaín
Stars: Verónica Echegui | Lluïsa Castell | Norbu Tsering Gurung | Saumyata Bhattarai | Montserrat Alcoverro
Seis puntos sobre Emma (2011)
As: Emma
Emma's eyes are blind but she believes to see everything very clear: he wants to be a mother. She longs to obsessively. After discovering that her boyfriend can not get her pregnant, she breaks with him and goes in search of a perfect sperm. Without falling in love, no feelings. Sounds easy, but quickly discovers that her blindness is not only in her eyes.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Roberto Pérez Toledo
Stars: Mariam Hernández | Verónica Echegui | Álex García | Fernando Tielve | Nacho Aldeguer
La mitad de Óscar (2011)
As: María
A reunion with his family provides a clue into the cause of one man's lonely life in this drama from filmmaker Manuel Martin Cuenca. Oscar lives in a barren section of Almeria, Spain, where he works as a guard at a salt mine. Oscar's days are governed by a monotonous routine: he goes to work, has lunch with fellow guard Miguel, finishes work, visits his dying grandfather at a hospice, and then goes home. ...
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Manuel Martín Cuenca
Stars: Antonio de la Torre | Verónica Echegui | Eva Almaya | Manuel Martínez Roca | Denis Eyriey
Bunny and the Bull (2009)
As: Eloisa
A young shut-in takes an imaginary road trip inside his apartment, based on mementos and memories of a European trek from years before.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Paul King
Stars: Edward Hogg | Simon Farnaby | Verónica Echegui | Julian Barratt | Noel Fielding
My Prison Yard (2008)
As: Isa
In Madrid, a petty thief who cannot adjust to life outside of jail puts together a theater troupe her friends -- a prostitute, a gypsy, and a Colombian immigrant -- in an attempt to make a go at a relatively straight life.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Belén Macías
Stars: Ana Wagener | Verónica Echegui | Candela Peña | Tatiana Astengo | Violeta Pérez
La casa de mi padre (2008)
As: Sara
A businessman returns his family home after eight years in exile avoiding the terrorism of the ETA.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Gorka Merchán
Stars: Alex Angulo | Juan José Ballesta | Verónica Echegui | Carmelo Gómez | Emma Suárez
Touch the Sky (2007)
As: Elena
A family divided between two continents put their differences aside when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Marcos Carnevale
Stars: Raúl Arévalo | Betiana Blum | Chete Lera | Montse Germán | Facundo Arana
Sexo en el plató (2007)
As: Herself
How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prepare and feel? Spanish actors and directors talk about the most intimate side of acting, about the tricks and work methods when narrating exposed sex. In Spain the general rule is that there are no rules. Each film, each interpreter, faces it in very different ways.
Runtime: 28 min.
Directed by: Nacho Valcárcel
Stars: Eduard Fernández | Dani Martín | Fernando Tejero | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Bigas Luna
El menor de los males (2007)
As: Vanesa
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Antonio Hernández
Stars: Carmen Maura | Berta Ojea | Verónica Echegui | Marta Belenguer | Roberto Álvarez
My Name Is Juani (2006)
As: Juani
A pair of women leave their small town and dud boyfriends behind for fun in Madrid.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Bigas Luna
Stars: Gorka Lasaosa | Dani Martín | Verónica Echegui | Laya Martí | Carles Francino