Verónica Forqué (born Verónica Forqué Vázquez-Vigo on 1 December 1955 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...

) is a Spanish actress of stage, film and television who comes from an artistic and theatrical family. Her mother is Carmen Vázquez Vigo and her father is the director José María Forqué

José María Forqué

José María Forqué was a Spanish screenwriter and film director.-Filmography:* 1947 : Juventudes de España, bajo una Patria hermosa* 1951 : María Morena* 1951 : Niebla y sol...

. Her brother is director Álvaro Forqué. She was married to Spanish

Spain

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 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...

 Manuel Iborra, by whom she has a daughter, María (born 1990).

She is reported to speak fluent Italian. In September 2005, she was a Member of the Jury at San Sebastián

San Sebastián

Donostia-San Sebastián is a city and municipality located in the north of Spain, in the coast of the Bay of Biscay and 20 km away from the French border. The city is the capital of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. The municipality’s population is 186,122 , and its...

's Movie Festival.

She began her career in the 1972 film Mi querida señorita

Mi querida señorita

Mi querida señorita is a 1972 Spanish film directed by Jaime de Armiñán. A black comedy on the subject of sex change, it was the first Spanish film that talked about sexual orientation, which was a taboo subject in Spain during Franco's regime....

("My Dearest Senorita"). She continued acting with regularity and appeared in Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...

's 1984 film, ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?

¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer ésto?

What Have I Done to Deserve This? is a 1984 film by Pedro Almodóvar. The title is sometimes given with an exclamation mark at the end rather than a question mark....

(What Have I Done to Deserve This?) as "Cristal". She plays the lead in Almodóvar's Kika

Kika

Kika is a 1993 Spanish language Pedro Almodóvar film starring Verónica Forqué as the title character.-Plot:Kika , a young, bubbly aspiring actress turned cosmetologist, is called to the cottage of Nicholas Pierce , an American freelance writer who has moved to Spain to write about game hunting, to...

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She has appeared on no fewer than three Spanish television series:

• La Vida de Rita ("The Life of Rita") (2003) as "Rita"
• Platos rotos ("Broken Dishes") as "María" (in at least 10 episodes)
• Eva y Adán, agencia matrimonial ("Adam and Eve's matrimony agency") in at least 19 episodes.

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