Verónica Echegui facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Verónica Echegui
Echegui in 2016
Born	Verónica Fernández Echegaray (1983-06-16) 16 June 1983 (age 41) Madrid, Spain
Occupation	Actress film director

Verónica Fernández Echegaray (born 16 June 1983), known professionally as Verónica Echegui, is a Spanish actress. Since making her feature film debut as the title character of the 2006 drama My Name Is Juani she has featured in films such as My Prison Yard, Kathmandu Lullaby, Family United, Unknown Origins and My Heart Goes Boom!.

Early life

Verónica Fernández Echegaray was born in Madrid on 16 June 1983. Her father is a lawyer and her mother a civil servant. In a 2015 interview she said she wanted to be an actress since she was eight but her parents wanted her "to study a career. My great-auntie was dying and told me I had to do what I wanted, although I must not tell my mother". Moving to London, she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, while working as a waitress and as a dog-walker.

Career

Echegui together with fellow cast members of &Me Mark Waschke and Teun Luijkx

Echegui was discovered by Spanish director Bigas Luna, who cast her in the 2006 film My Name Is Juani, for which she was nominated Goya Award for Best New Actress; she portrayed the title character, a 18-year-old woman who moves to Madrid to pursue her dreams of becoming an actress. The European Film Promotion Jury selected Echegui as one of ten up-and-coming European actors to be honoured with the 2009 Shooting Stars Award.

In 2009, she made herself known to British audiences in the Mighty Boosh film spin-off Bunny and the Bull.

In 2012, Craig Mathieson wrote in the Australian entertainment paper The Age "In Roberto Perez Toledo's romantic drama Six Points about Emma she plays a wilful blind woman, while for Manuel Martín Cuenca's sparsely atmospheric Half of Oscar she is a silent, recessive sibling circling her estranged brother, and in Icíar Bollaín's Kathmandu Lullaby she displays a forthright passion as a teacher trying to help abandoned children in Nepal." In 2018, she made her American television debut appearing in the FX series Trust, playing one of J. Paul Getty's girlfriends, Luciana.

Echegui presenting her debut short film Tótem loba at the 2021 Gijón International Film Festival.

In 2020, she portrayed hard-boiled cop and cosplay-loving Norma in Unknown Origins.

In 2021, she debuted as a director with the short film Tótem loba [es], which won the Goya Award for Best Fictional Short Film.

Personal life

Echegui is fluent in Spanish, Italian and English.

As of 2015, she was living with her then boyfriend of 4 years, Spanish actor Álex García in Brixton, London.

Filmography

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2006	Yo soy la Juani (My Name Is Juani)	Juani
2007	El menor de los males (The Lesser Evil)	Vanesa
	Tocar el cielo (Touch the Sky)	Elena
2008	8 citas (8 Dates)	Vane
	El patio de mi cárcel (My Prison Yard)	Isa
	La casa de mi padre [es]	Sara
2009	Bunny and the Bull	Eloisa
2010	La mitad de Óscar (Half of Oscar)	María
2011	Verbo	Medussa
	Seis puntos sobre Emma (Six Points About Emma)	Emma
2012	Katmandú, un espejo en el cielo (Kathmandu Lullaby)	Laia
	The Cold Light of Day	Lucia
2013	&ME	Edurne
	La gran familia española (Family United)	Cris
2014	Kamikaze	Nancy
2016	Me estás matando, Susana (You're Killing Me Susana)	Susana
	No culpes al karma de lo que te pasa por gilipollas (Don't Blame the Karma for Being an Idiot)	Sara
2017	La niebla y la doncella (The Mist and the Maiden)	Ruth Anglada
	Lasciati andare [it] (Let Yourself Go)	Claudia
	The Hunter's Prayer	Dani
2019	Orígenes secretos (Unknown Origins)	Norma
2020	L'ofrena (The Offering)	Rita
	Explota explota (My Heart Goes Boom!)	Amparo	Character features a Murcian Spanish accent
2021	Donde caben dos (More the Merrier)	Ana
2022	Book of Love	Maria Rodríguez
	Historias para no contar (Stories Not to Be Told)	Sofía
	Objetos (Lost & Found)	Helena
TBA	Justicia artificial	Carmen Costa
	Yo no soy esa

Television

Accolades

See also

In Spanish: Verónica Echegui para niños