Ana Consuelo Duato Boix (born 18 June 1968) is a Spanish actress, who is best known for portraying Mercedes Fernández in the television series ''

Cuéntame cómo pasó ' (), usually shortened to ''Cuéntame'' and also known in English as ''Remember When'', is a Spanish prime-time television historical drama series that originally ran on La 1 (Spanish TV channel), La 1 of Televisión Española for twenty-three ...

''.

Biography

Ana Consuelo Duato Boix was born on 18 June 1968, in Valencia. She has one older sister, named Zulema Duato Boix. She is the cousin of famous dancer and choreographer

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Personal life

In 1989, she married the television producer Miguel Ángel Bernardeau Maestro. On 12 December 1996, she gave birth to the couple's first child, a boy, whom they called Miguel Bernardeau. In 2004, she gave birth to the couple's second child, a girl, whom they called María Bernardeau Duato, was born in

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Lawsuits

On 7 April 2016, Ana Duato was accused of

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and

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crimes together with the actor,

Imanol Arias Manuel María Arias Domínguez (born 26 April 1956), better known as Imanol Arias, is a Spanish actor. In his career beginnings, Arias was a recurring face of Basque cinema. His career in the 21st-century is marked by his portrayal of Antonio ...

and her husband, Miguel Ángel Bernardeau, in the

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scandal as the owner of an

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, Trekel Trading Limited, based on the island nation of

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that held a bank account under his complete control at the Swiss bank Banque Franck SA. In May 2016, a judicial investigation was opened for the alleged crimes.

Career

Ana Duato first role was with the Spanish director Basilio Martín Patino in 1987. Between 2001 and 2023, she starred in the

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prime-time series ''

'' as Mercedes Fernández, the mother of a Spanish middle-class family during the years of the rule of Francisco Franco, the

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, and the current democracy.

UNICEF

As part of her charity work, Ana Duato has been one of the

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors UNICEF ( ), originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children ...

since December 2000.

Filmography

Film

Television

External links

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Duato, Ana 1968 births Living people 20th-century Spanish actresses 21st-century Spanish actresses People named in the Panama Papers Actresses from Valencia