Combative and endearing, the death of Verónica Forqué leaves Spanish cinema without one of its icons

Television had once again shown its most visible face in recent months. A mix of chaos, overwhelming personality and endearing character, who also showed his vulnerability, delighted viewers of the latest edition of Masterchef Celebrity. The presence of Verónica Forqué was a force who starred in the best and worst of this program.

Today has been found dead at her home in Madrid. But beyond the television character is the great professional career of one of the greatest Spanish actresses.

Verónica Forqué leaves us at 66 years old. She was born in Madrid in 1955, the daughter of an actor and director and a writer. He began to study the career of Psychology, but shortly after he left it to focus on his studies of Dramatic Art.

She began working as an actress as a teenager, in discreet roles in movies with her father and also in theater, but it was in the early 80s when she was revealed as a great comedy actress thanks to What have I done to deserve this? By Almodóvar (1984), and Be unfaithful and don’t look with whom, by Fernando Trueba (1985).

With Trueba he achieved just one year later his First Goya as a supporting actress in The Year of the Lights. He continued to do comedy with success in Bajar al moro and The joyful life. The latter earned her her first Goya as a leading actress in 1987. Months later, the same year, he received her second Goya as a supporting actress for Moros y Cristianosby Luis García Berlanga.

In the 90s, titles such as Salsa rosa or Why do they call it love when they mean sex? And in 1993 it came to him a fourth Goya for his leading role in Kikaby Almodóvar. At that time, she also participated in several films directed by her husband, the director Manuel Iborra (Orquesta Club Virginia, in 1992, El tiempo de la feliz, in 1997 and Pepe Guindo and Clara y Elena in 1999).

Tremendously prolific, her career also ran in parallel on television with roles in series such as Ramón y Cajal (1982), Get off the Moor (1987), Platos rotos (1988), Eva y Adán, Agencia matrimonial, (1991), or Pepa and Pepe (1995), where he shared the limelight with Tito Valverde.

Also to theater He took Bajar al Moro or Doña Rosita the single woman and Ay Carmela !. And not only as an actress but she was also the stage director of two works: The temptation lives above (2000), and Adulteries (2008), based on the play by Woody Allen.

In addition to the four Goya awards, he obtained the Espiga de Oro at the 2014 Valladolid Festival and the Malaga Award in 2005.

Combative and declared feminist, Verónica Forqué married the film director Manuel Iborra in 1981, with whom he has a daughter, Maria Clara. The marriage separated in 2014 and that same year her brother, Álvaró Forqué, a film director, to whom she was very close, passed away.

He has not minded revealing in several interviews that in 2015 he suffered a deep depression with which he lost 10 kilos and that he overcame thanks to the help of professionals.

The news of his death has shaken the world of culture. As confirmed by Summa 112 to laSexta, the actress would have committed suicide in her home and the health workers who have traveled to the place have only been able to confirm his death.