Teresa Marta Ruiz Penella (29 July 1939 – 11 August 2017), better known as Terele Pávez, was a Spanish actress. She appeared in more than ninety films since 1954.
Life and career
Teresa Marta Ruiz Penella was born in
Bilbao
Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the Provinces of Spain, province of Biscay and in the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country as a whole. It is also the largest city proper in northern Spain. Bilbao is the List o ...
on 29 July 1939 but she was raised in
Madrid
Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...
.
She was the daughter of
CEDA
The Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas (, CEDA) was a Spanish right-wing political party in the Second Spanish Republic. A Catholic conservative force, it was the political heir to Ángel Herrera Oria's Acción Popular and defined ...
politician
Ramón Ruiz Alonso and Magdalena Penella Silva and the niece of actress .
Composers
Manuel Penella Moreno and were, respectively, her grandfather and great-grandfather.
She was the aunt of actress . Two out of her three sisters also pursued an acting career, under the artistic names of
Emma Penella and
Elisa Montés, reneging on the paternal surname.
She took her artistic name after the second family name of her grandmother on her mother side, Emma Silva Pávez, of Chilean background.
She made her big screen debut in ''
Boyfriend in Sight''.
He starred as witch-procuress
Celestina in ''
La Celestina
''The Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea'' (), known in Spain as ''La Celestina'', is a work entirely in dialogue published in 1499. Sometimes called in English ''The Spanish Bawd'', it is attributed to Fernando de Rojas, a descendant of conv ...
'' (1996). She reportedly was surprised at being offered a leading role instead of the supporting role to which she was used to, and claimed to be afraid of diving into the psychology of an extremely manipulative and dark character. She had already experience in Fernando de Rojas' work as she had played Celestina's pupil Elicia in a 1978 play. Her work earned her an
Actors Union Award for Best Leading Performance in a Film.
Pávez had one son (Carolo) with publisher José Benito Alique.
She died on 11 August 2017 at the
Hospital de La Paz in Madrid due to a
stroke
Stroke is a medical condition in which poor cerebral circulation, blood flow to a part of the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: brain ischemia, ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and intracranial hemorrhage, hemor ...
at the age of 78.
Selected filmography
Film
Television
Accolades
References
External links
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1939 births
2017 deaths
Spanish film actresses
20th-century Spanish actresses
21st-century Spanish actresses
Actresses from Bilbao
Spanish television actresses