María Consuelo Casal Mínguez (born 26 February 1958) is a Spanish

Spanish people

The Spanish are citizens of the Kingdom of Spain. Within Spain, there are also a number of vigorous nationalisms and regionalisms, reflecting the country's complex history....

 actress. The daughter of actor Antonio Casal

Antonio Casal

Antonio Casal Rivadulla was a Spanish film actor.He appeared in over 50 films between 1941 and his death in 1974.-Selected filmography:- External links :...

, she is perhaps the best known as secretary in Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez

Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez

Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez , often shortened as Un, dos, tres, and named Un, dos, tres... a leer esta vez in the last season, was a Spanish game show created by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador. The show, which ran from 1972 to 2004 spanning ten seasons, became the most famous game show in the...

 and for her roles in television series Hospital Central

Hospital Central

Hospital Central is a Spanish television series that follows the professional and personal lives of the staff of the fictitious Hospital Central in Madrid. New episodes are shown by Telecinco network in Spain, and cable/satellite channel Factoría de Ficción reruns them a couple of weeks later...

 and Física o Química

Física o Química

Física o Química was a Spanish television series made by Antena 3. The first episode premiered on 4 February 2008....

.

Personal life

Casal was born María Consuelo Casal Mínguez on 26 February 1958 in Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

. She is of Galician origin through her father, actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 Antonio Casal

Antonio Casal

Antonio Casal Rivadulla was a Spanish film actor.He appeared in over 50 films between 1941 and his death in 1974.-Selected filmography:- External links :...

. Her mother, Madrilenian Carmen Mínguez was also an actress. Her father died when she was 16. Casal is fluent in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, English

English language

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, French

French language

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 and Italian language

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

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Filmography

Year	Title	Format	Role	Notes
1969	Juicio de faldas	Film
1976	El alijo	Film
	Colorín colorado	Film	Maruja
1976—78	Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez , often shortened as Un, dos, tres, and named Un, dos, tres... a leer esta vez in the last season, was a Spanish game show created by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador. The show, which ran from 1972 to 2004 spanning ten seasons, became the most famous game show in the...	Television Show	Host
1977	¡Susana quiere perder... eso!	Film
1978	Perro de alambre	Film
1980	La guerra de los niños	Film	Enfermera
	Hijos de papá	Film	María
1981	Brujas mágicas	Film
1981—83	Aplauso	Television Show	Host
1982	Los gozos y las sombras	Television Series	Carmina
1983	La avispita Ruinasa	Film
	Hundra	Film	Tracima
1984	Ninette y un señor de Murcia	Television Series	Maruja
1989	The Man in the Brown Suit The Man in the Brown Suit The Man in the Brown Suit is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and was first published in the UK by The Bodley Head on August 22 1924 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year...	Film	Anita
	Primera función	Television Series
	Veneno que tú me dieras	Film
1994	Vecinos Vecinos Vecinos is a Mexican TV series adapted in 2005 by actor Eugenio Derbez from Spanish TV series Aquí no hay quien viva. The series portrays the life of everyday people in Mexican barrios, where anything can be found — the jealous housewife, the spinster, the strange family, etc...	Television Series
1994—95	¡Ay, Señor, Señor! ¡Ay, Señor, Señor! ¡Ay, Señor, Señor! was a 26-episode Spanish television series transmitted by Antena 3 between 1994 and 1995. It tells of the adventures of a modern, open-minded priest, portrayed by the actor Andrés Pajares...	Television Series	Monja
1995	Médico de familia	Television Series
1996	Esto es espectáculo	Television Series
	Menudo es mi padre	Television Series	Carmen
1999	Extraños	Film	Sofía Miro
2000—07	Hospital Central Hospital Central Hospital Central is a Spanish television series that follows the professional and personal lives of the staff of the fictitious Hospital Central in Madrid. New episodes are shown by Telecinco network in Spain, and cable/satellite channel Factoría de Ficción reruns them a couple of weeks later...	Television Series	Elisa Sánchez
2002	Stones	Film	Martina
2005	Munich Munich (film) Munich is a 2005 historical fiction film about the Israeli government's secret retaliation attacks after the massacre of Israeli athletes by the Black September terrorist group during the 1972 Summer Olympics. The film stars Eric Bana and was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg...	Film	Cameo	(Uncredited)
2006	Magma	Short film	Mujer
	Tod eines Keilers	Television Film	María
2007	Les moreses	Television Series	Cuca Parmenter
2008	700 euros	Television Series	Ingrid
2008—09	Física o Química Física o Química Física o Química was a Spanish television series made by Antena 3. The first episode premiered on 4 February 2008....	Television Series	Marisa

External links

• María Casal at the Internet Movie Database
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