Celebrity Biographies
Veronica Forqué
The Summa 12 emergency services found the lifeless body of actress Verónica Forqué , 66, at her residence in Madrid on December 13, 2021. She had been in the news for her participation in the “Masterchef Celebrity” program, which She left due to depression problems, as she herself had explained. Everything indicated that she has taken her life. For a long time she was one of the reference faces of Spanish cinema.
Born on December 1, 1955, the Madrid native was the daughter of the producer and filmmaker José María Forqué, and the writer Carmen Vázquez-Vigo. Verónica Forqué studied dramatic art and began a degree in Psychology, which she did not finish. She kicked off her journey with roles in her parent’s movies. “I started at 19 years old,” she recalled in an interview. “Having a film director dad whom everyone called ‘boss’ I loved, it seemed like the best thing to me. I wanted to dedicate myself to that, I wanted to be like Conchita Velasco “.
It began to stand out when Pedro Almodóvar turned it into Cristal, a remembered character from What have I done to deserve this? (1984). Fernando Trueba recruited her for Sé infiel y no mires con quién and El año de las luces , for which she won her first Goya as a supporting actress. Under the orders of Fernando Colomo , Verónica Forqué shot Bajar al moro and La vida alegre , for which she obtained her first Goya as leading actress, in the same edition in which she won a second Goya as supporting actress for Moors and Christians , from Luis Garcia Berlanga .
She was personally chosen by Stanley Kubrick to voice Shelley Duvall in Spanish , in The Shining , although her work received much criticism. Under the baton of Manuel Gómez Pereira she filmed the comedies Salsa rosa , Why do they call it love when they mean sex? , and Queens . Almodóvar turned to her again for Kika . On television, Verónica Forqué has appeared in series such as Ramón y cajal, Eva y Adán, matrimonial agency , Pepa y Pepe and La que se avecina .
He also lavished himself in the theater, where according to his statements he felt more comfortable. “In the theater you can fix what you messed up the day before,” he explained. “In the cinema there is no fix anymore. That is why I prefer not to look at what I have done, because you can no longer do anything. But the theater depends more on you, on your will, on your intuition and that of your companions and every day is a slightly different test.” He was in titles such as “Divine words”, from 1979, or “The things that I know are true”, his last work on stage, from 2019.
In 2014, she divorced her husband, the director Manuel Iborra , who directed her in El tiempo de la felicidad , and who was the father of her daughter, María Clara Iborra Forqué.