Verónica Forqué

Verónica Forqué lahir di Madrid, Spanyol, pada 1 Desember 1955 dari keluarga berlatar belakang seni, yaitu ibunya Carmen Vázquez-Vigo [es] yang bekerja sebagai penulis dan ayahnya José María Forqué yang bekerja sebagai pembuat film.^[3][4] Kakeknya José Vázquez Vigo [es] adalah pemusik dan komposer.^[5] Abangnya bernama Álvaro Forqué yang bekerja sebagai seolah sutradara.^[6][7] Ia mulai belajar untuk mendapatkan gelar di bidang psikologi, tetapi ia beralih ke bidang drama pada usia 17 tahun.^[4]

Ia pertama kali terlibat dalam perfilman ketika berperan dalam film My Dearest Senorita yang disutradarai Jaime de Armiñán pada tahun 1972 dan kemudian berperan dalam film Una pareja... distinta [es] yang disutradarai ayahnya.^[8] Ia memulai debutnya di teater saat berusia 19 tahun pada tahun 1975 bersama Núria Espert dalam sandiwara Divinas palabras.^[4] Peran sandiwara awal lainnya di panggung termasuk peran Laura di El zoo de cristal dan María di María la mosca.^[9]

Stanley Kubrick memilih dirinya untuk mengisi suara Shelley Duvall (diperankan Wendy Torrance) dalam bahasa Spanyol Eropa di The Shining (1980).^[2][10]

Ia menikahi sutradara Manuel Iborra [es] pada tahun 1981,^[11] dan melahirkan anak perempuan bernama María.^[12]

Pada tahun 1982, ia berperan sebagai istri Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Silveria Fañanás García dalam serial televisi Ramón y Cajal yang disutradarai oleh ayahnya.^[2]

Her career took a leap forward with her breakout performance as Cristal, “a toothy heart-of-gold hooker” in Pedro Almodóvar's 1984 film, What Have I Done to Deserve This?^[13][14] She landed her first major television role in the 1985 sitcom Platos rotos, earning a Fotogramas de Plata in 1986 for her performance as Loli.^[15][16] She won her first Goya Award with a supporting role in Fernando Trueba's 1986 film Year of Enlightment.^[17]

In 1988, she won the Goya Awards for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, for her roles in La vida alegre and Moros y cristianos, respectively. She and Emma Suárez are the only two to have won two Goyas in the same year.^[18] Of Forqué's performance as a doctor treating sexually transmitted diseases in La vida alegre, Paula Corroto wrote in El Confidencial, Forqué’s "smile (and laughter) were forever in the hearts of everyone who saw this film. A comedian from head to toe.”^[1]

Forqué played the lead in Almodóvar's Kika (1993).^[19] A review by Stanley Kauffmann in The New Republic said her part in the film was "a better role than her American debut in Jimmy Hollywood, but it doesn't make the most of this spirited comedienne."^[20] Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, found Forqué’s performance “spirited and appealing, never in danger of being overpowered by [her] surroundings."^[21]

She starred in television series such as Pepa y Pepe (1995) and La vida de Rita (2003).^[22][23] The former series, loosely inspired by Roseanne and earning audience ratings breaking seven million viewers mark and 40% share, earned Forqué a great deal of popularity in Spain.^[24][25]

Forqué fell into a depression in the wake of her 2014 separation from Iborra, a situation aggravated by the death of her brother Álvaro some months later.^[26]

In 2017, she won the Nacho Martínez award from the Gijón International Film Festival.^[27]

At the 5th Feroz Awards (2018), Forqué received the Honorary Award, which recognised her long career.^[28]

One of Forqué's latest starring roles was in the Ángeles Reiné's LGBTQ romantic comedy film So My Grandma's a Lesbian, playing Sofía, the lesbian partner of the character Rosa María Sardá played in her final role; the film was released in 2020 after Sardá's death.^[2][29][30]

A participant in the sixth season of the competitive reality television cooking show MasterChef Celebrity, she quit the show during the November 2021 semifinal, citing exhaustion.^[31]

Dia ditemukan tewas di kediamannya di Madrid pada 13 Desember 2021 pada usia 66 tahun. Penyebab kematiannya diduga karena bunuh diri.^[32][33] Dia akan tampil dalam film Espejo, espejo [es], sementara dijadwalkan ditayangkan pada tahun 2022.^[34]

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