Verónica Echegui

Verónica Fernández Echegaray (born 16 June 1983), known professionally as Verónica Echegui, is a Spanish actress and director. Since making her feature film debut as the title character of the 2006 drama '' My Name Is Juani'', she has appeared in films such as '' My Prison Yard'' (2008), '' Kathmandu Lullaby'' (2012), '' The Cold Light of Day'' (2012), ''Family United'' (2013), '' You're Killing Me Susana'' (2016), '' Let Yourself Go'' (2017), ''The Hunter's Prayer'' (2017), '' Unknown Origins'' (2020), '' My Heart Goes Boom!'' (2020), '' The Offering'' (2020), '' Book of Love'' (2022), '' Artificial Justice'' (2023) and '' Yo No Soy Esa'' (2024).

She has appeared in television series such as '' Fortitude'' (2015-2017), '' Trust'' (2018), ''Intimacy'' (2022) and '' Love You To Death'' (2025).

In 2020, her short film and directorial debut ''Tótem Loba'' was released; it won the Best Short Film at the Goya Awards in 2022.

Early life

Verónica Fernández Echegaray was born in Madrid on 16 June 1983. Her father is a lawyer and her mother a civil servant.Susannah Butte
The ice breaker: Verónica Echegui on her role in new TV show Fortitude and living in London
The Evening standard, 30 January 2015 In a 2015 interview she said she had aspired to be an actress since the age of eight though her parents wanted her to pursue a more conventional career. “Sometimes you meet people on your journey who encourage you to follow your heart.” She heeded the advice and has dedicated herself to the art of film ever since. Moving to London, she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, while working as a waitress.

Career

She starred in Bigas Luna's '' My Name Is Juani'', for which she was nominated for the 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.Susannah Butte
The ice breaker: Verónica Echegui on her role in new TV show Fortitude and living in London
The Evening standard, 30 January 2015 The European Film Promotion Jury selected Echegui as one of ten up-and-coming European actors to be awarded the 2009 Shooting Stars Award.

In 2009, she caught the eye of the British public in the '' Mighty Boosh'' film spin-off '' Bunny and the Bull''. Starring alongside Boosh mainstays Noel Fielding, Simon Farnaby and Julian Barratt, she played a foul-mouthed waitress caught up in a bizarre, hallucinogenic road trip involving a kidnapped stuffed bear, deranged tramps and dogs.

In 2012, Craig Mathieson wrote in ''The Age'': "In Roberto Perez Toledo's romantic drama ''Six Points about Emma'' she plays a confident 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 2020 Echegui co-starred in the musical comedy ''My Heart Goes Boom!'', portraying Amparo, a small-town woman that her another Goya nomination, as well as a Feroz Award for the Best Performance of the Year in a Supporting Role. In the same year Verónica Echegui won the Gaudí Award for Best Actress for her role in ''The Offering''.

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 ', which won her the Goya Award for Best Fictional Short Film.

In 2025, Echegui starred in the series '' Love You To Death''.

Personal life

Echegui is fluent in Spanish, Italian and English.

Filmography

Film

Television

Accolades

References

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1983 births
21st-century Spanish actresses
Living people
Actresses from Madrid
Spanish expatriates in England
Spanish film actresses
Spanish television actresses