Actress Verónica Forqué found dead at her home in Madrid

The National Police found this Monday the corpse of the actress Verónica Forqué, 66 years old (turned last December 1), who took her own life in her home in Madrid, according to police sources confirmed to EL PAÍS.

A person called 112 at 12:49 to report a suicide attempt in a house located at number 7 Víctor de la Serna street.

To the domicile, toilets from Summa 112 were displaced, which could only confirm the death.

Verónica Forqué had everything in favor and everything against to be a movie star.

Daughter of producer and director José María Forqué, from childhood she had access to the sets.

But for that very reason there were some reluctance in his future.

Because he began in the cinema in his father's films, although he studied Dramatic Art and then Psychology (which he did not finish).

Over time, her special physique, her messy red hair, her talent for using an unmistakable voice in both comedy and drama, made her one of the most popular interpreters in Spain.

And one of the most awarded: together with Carmen Maura, he holds the record for the highest number of Goya, four, which Forqué achieved with only five nominations.

And with Emma Suárez he also shares the honor of winning two Goya awards in the same edition.

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Verónica Forqué's career, in pictures

His childhood was spent between the classrooms of the Italian School and the Retiro Park, since his family lived a few blocks away.

And from those years he fondly remembered visits to the Prado Museum with his father as a guide: “My father loved painting.

As a child, she would take my brother and me for many days and explain Brueghel and El Bosco to us, but she would especially stop at Goya [her father was from Zaragoza] and his last stage so surreal.

He was not a scholar and he explained it to us in his own style, always wonderful ”.

A vegetarian, a lover of meditation, she passionately defended her profession, which she defined as: "The work of an actor has to do with the unconscious."

Of herself she said: “I have been very adventurous and daring.

I knew what I wanted ”.

Although he started in the cinema in 1972, with

by Jaime de Armiñán, and shot under the direction of his father, Carlos Saura and Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, to name three examples of filmmakers who helped in his ascending career, no it was until 1984,

Pedro Almodóvar's

when it reached popularity. After knowing his death, from El Deseo, the production company of Almodóvar, they have sent a message of consternation: “The void that it leaves in our lives and our cinema is irretrievable. An extraordinary actress and an irreplaceable person with whom we had the honor of working and sharing life has left. Have a good trip, Verónica ”. With Almodóvar he would repeat in

and in

For several decades, Forqué benefited a whole generation of directors with his talent. With Fernando Trueba he made

and

(his first Goya); with Fernando Colomo she appeared in

(the only time she was a Goya candidate she did not win) and

; With Manuel Gómez Pereira he worked in

and

With his partner for more than three decades, Manuel Iborra, he filmed

and

And with Luis García Berlanga

Two other Forqué films will be released in the coming months:

by Álvaro Fernández Armero, and

by Marc Crehuet.

The actress Verónica Forqué, in a scene from the movie 'El Deseo', in 1993.

During an interview with EL PAÍS in April 2019, in the theatrical promotion of

in which he embodied death, he explained that he was aware that his star was fading in the cinema, although in return that led him to enjoy of the theater. “It is a reality that when actresses are turning years old, we disappear from the cinema. There are far fewer interesting characters that they can offer you. It is true that something seems to be changing, especially due to the appearance of women screenwriters ”. At that time he had filmed

, by Àngeles Reiné, in which he played a grandmother who decides to announce her gay wedding with a soulmate (Rosa María Sardá), and the Netflix series

, with Charo López, Ángela Molina and Victoria Abril. “I went through a very hard depression four years ago,” he recounted in that spring of 2019, “and I spent it on stage. It was the theater that gave me life. It was the only two hours of the day when I forgot everything. I've been happier on stage than off stage. The theater forces you to evade your own reality because it requires enormous concentration and that is wonderful. It is something very liberating ”.

Proof of that passion was his Carmela in the first performance

by José Sanchis Sinisterra, or his appearances on stage with ¡

(2009) and

(2011).

In addition, he directed several plays in the theater, such as a version of

adapted to Madrid in 2000, or in 2009 the montage of

by Woody Allen.

Verónica Forqué with Tito Valverde and the rest of the actors from the television series 'Pepe y Pepa'. Sogepag

On television in series such as

(1982),

(1983),

(1988),

(1990-1991) and

(1995), directed by Manuel Iborra .

Between 2014 and 2015, she participated in the eighth season of the fiction series

, playing the secondary character of Teresa Sáenz de Tejada - mayor.

For decades, Forqué was one of the actresses most loved by the public.

“I am aware that people love me.

It is something that I value very much, that I take care of because it is a precious gift.

I am not a complicated person and I think I have a good character.

It is something that I have been working on and that people notice ”.

Vanesa Romero, Eduardo Navarrete, Verónica Forqué, Miki Nadal and Samantha Hudson, in one of the tests of the sixth edition of 'MasterChef Celebrity'.

Of their long relationship that lasted until 2014, Manuel Iborra, with whom he began dating in 1981, recalled: “I did not discover freedom until I was 59 years old.

I left my parents' house when I was 21 years old, and I have always lived with someone, the last ones with the father of my daughter until I separated.

He had never tasted freedom.

I, surely I have not known how to do it well and I have spent my life asking for permission, which is something that I talk a lot with my psychoanalyst.

Now, my life is made, I don't have to discover the gunpowder and I do what I want.

I am happy.

I do not ask for more".

The last appearance of the actress was the TVE

cooking program

that she decided to leave out of exhaustion before being expelled two months ago: “You have to be consistent and if I can't take it anymore, I can't take it anymore”.

Filmography

1972. My dear young lady, Jaime de Armiñán

1974. A different… couple, José María Forqué

1975. País, SA, Antonio Fraguas, Forges

1976. Madrid, Costa Fleming, José María Forqué

1976. The second power, José María Forqué

1977. Daddy's war, Antonio Mercero

1977. The last flag, Ottokar Runze

1978. The trout, José Luis García Sánchez

1978. The blindfolded, Carlos Saura

1979. Times of constitution, Rafael Gordon

1980. The song of the cicada, José María Forqué

1984. What have I done to deserve this ?, Pedro Almodóvar

1985. Be unfaithful and don't look with whom, Fernando Trueba

1986. Matador, Pedro Almodóvar

1986. The year of lights, Fernando Trueba

1987. The happy life, Fernando Colomo

1987. Moors and Christians, Luis García Berlanga

1989. Get off the Moor, Fernando Colomo

1990. Don Juan, my dear ghost, Antonio Mercero

1991. Pink sauce, Manuel Gómez Pereira

1992. Orquesta Club Virginia, Manuel Iborra

1993. Kika, Pedro Almodóvar

1993. Self-love, Mario Camus

1993. Why do they call it love when they mean sex ?, Manuel Gómez Pereira

1994. Seven thousand days together, Fernando Fernán Gómez

1995. What are women laughing at women ?, Joaquín Oristrell

1997. The time of happiness, Manuel Iborra

1999. Pepe Guindo, Manuel Iborra

2001. Clara and Elena, Manuel Iborra

2001. I Love You Baby, Alfonso Albacete and David Menkes

2001. Sin shame, Joaquín Oristrell

2005. Reinas, Manuel Gómez Pereira

2006. La dama boba, Manuel Iborra

2008. Maddened, Juan Luis Iborra

2012. Ali, Paco R. Baños

2016. We have to talk, David Serrano

2018. Getting older and other problems, Clara Martínez Lázaro

2019. Remember me, Martín Rosete

2020. Come out of the closet, Ángeles Reiné

2021. A thousand kilometers from Christmas, Álvaro Fernández Armero

2021. Mirror, mirror, Marc Crehuet