Vicky Peña
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Vicky Peña (Barcelona
, January 11, 1954) is a Catalan
television, cinema, theatre and voice actress.
She's the daughter of the actors Felip Peña and Montserrat Carulla
, and she’s one of the most important voice actors in Catalan
and Spanish
. She started working in the 1966 TV series La pequeña comedia. She has been nominated and rewarded with several prices. In 2005 was elected as Vice President of the Professional Actors and Directors Association of Catalonia.
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, January 11, 1954) is a Catalan
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...
television, cinema, theatre and voice actress.
She's the daughter of the actors Felip Peña and Montserrat Carulla
Montserrat Carulla
Montserrat Carulla i Ventura is a Spanish actress.Coming from the amateur theatre, she completed her training with courses at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona at the end of the 1940s. However, it was not until 1960 that she began to work in the professional theatre with Soparem a casa , by...
, and she’s one of the most important voice actors in Catalan
Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
and 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...
. She started working in the 1966 TV series La pequeña comedia. She has been nominated and rewarded with several prices. In 2005 was elected as Vice President of the Professional Actors and Directors Association of Catalonia.
Selected films
- Pactar amb el gat (2006)
- Con mostaza sabe mejor (2005)
- Joves (2004)
- El principio de Arquímedes (2004)
- Las voces de la noche (2003)
- Noche de fiesta (2002)
- Smoking RoomSmoking roomA Smoking room is a room which is specifically provided and furnished for smoking, generally in buildings where smoking is otherwise prohibited....
(2002) - PiedrasPiedras (film)Piedras is a 2002 Spanish film directed by Ramón Salazar. It revolves around the lives of five women living in Madrid.-Cast:*Antonia San Juan as Adela*Ángela Molina as Isabel*Najwa Nimri as Leire*Vicky Peña as Maricarmen...
(2002) - El deseo de ser piel roja (2002)
- Sé quién eres (2000) .
- Morir (o no) (2000)
- Em dic Sara (1999) .
- El pianista (1998)
- Marquise (1997)
- Secretos del corazón (1997)
- La buena vidaLa Buena VidaLa Buena Vida is an indie pop group from San Sebastián, Spain. The band was formed in 1988 and continues to make music as of today. They have recorded 7 albums and 14 EPs. Their music is a form of pop also known as the Donosti Sound, a 1990s indie pop movement in San Sebastián.-Biography:The...
(1996) - Entre rojas (1995)
- La casa de Bernarda AlbaThe House of Bernarda Alba (1987 film)The House of Bernarda Alba is a 1987 Spanish drama film directed by Mario Camus. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival...
(1987) - Werther (1986)
Theatre
- A Streetcar Named Desire (2011)
- Homebody Kabul, by Tony KushnerTony KushnerAnthony Robert "Tony" Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film, Munich.-Life and career:Kushner was born...
(2007) - Al llarg del Kurt (2006)
- Els estiuejants (2006)
- La Orestiada (2004)
- Electra (2003)
- Edipo XXI (2002)
- La Mare Coratge i els seus fills (2001)
- Guys and Dolls (1998)
- A Little Night MusicA Little Night MusicA Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples. Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart's Serenade...
(2000) - La reina de bellesa de Leenane (The Beauty Queen of LeenaneThe Beauty Queen of LeenaneThe Beauty Queen of Leenane is a 1996 black comedy by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh which was premiered by the Druid Theatre Company in Galway, Ireland...
) by Martin McDonaghMartin McDonaghMartin McDonagh is an Irish-British playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Although he has lived in London his entire life, he is considered one of the most important living Irish playwrights.-Life:...
. Directed by Mario Gas (1998) - Sweeney toddSweeney ToddSweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as then antagonist of the Victorian penny dreadful The String of Pearls and he was later introduced as an antihero in the broadway musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and its film adaptation...
, by Stephen SondheimStephen SondheimStephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...
(1995) - OthelloOthelloThe Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...
, by William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
. Directed by Mario Gas (1994). - Golfos de Roma by SondheimStephen SondheimStephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...
& Shevelove. (1993) - El temps i els Conway (Time and the ConwaysTime and the ConwaysTime and the Conways is a British play written by J. B. Priestley in 1937 illustrating J. W. Dunne's Theory Of Time through the experience of a moneyed Yorkshire family, the Conways, over a period of nineteen years from 1919 to 1937...
) by J. B. PriestleyJ. B. PriestleyJohn Boynton Priestley, OM , known as J. B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright and broadcaster. He published 26 novels, notably The Good Companions , as well as numerous dramas such as An Inspector Calls...
(1992) - L’hort dels cirerers (The Cherry OrchardThe Cherry OrchardThe Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however, Stanislavski insisted on...
) by Anton ChekhovAnton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
(1991) - Les tres germanes (Three SistersThree Sisters (play)Three Sisters is a play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, perhaps partially inspired by the situation of the three Brontë sisters, but most probably by the three Zimmermann sisters in Perm...
) by Anton ChekhovAnton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
. (1990) - Dancing! (1988)
- La balada de Calamity Jane (1987)
- Madre Coraje y sus hijos, by Bertolt BrechtBertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...
(1986). - L’òpera de tres rals, by Bertolt BrechtBertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...
(1984) - Les noces de Figaro (1977)
- Tirant lo Blanc, by Joanot MartorellJoanot MartorellJoanot Martorell was a Valencian knight and the author of the novel Tirant lo Blanch, which is written in Valencian...
(1976) - El criat de dos amos, by Carlo GoldoniCarlo GoldoniCarlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty...
(1974)