Verónica Echegui


Verónica Fernández Echegaray, known professionally as Verónica Echegui, is a Spanish actress. She has been nominated for three Goya Awards.

Early life

Echegui was born and grew up in Madrid. Her father is a lawyer and her mother a civil servant. In a 2015 interview she said she wanted to be an actress since she was eight but her parents wanted her "to study a career. My great-auntie was dying and told me I had to do what I wanted, although I must not tell my mother".
Moving to London, she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. while working as a waitress and as a dog-walker.

Career

Echegui was discovered by Spanish director Bigas Luna, who cast her in the 2006 film My Name Is Juani, for which she was nominated Goya Award for Best New Actress and won multiple awards including Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Actress
In 2009, she made herself known to British audiences 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, jars of urine, deranged tramps and dogs. At the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, she was one of ten young European actors honoured with the Shooting Stars Award.
In 2012, Craig Mathieson wrote in the Australian entertainment paper The Age "In Roberto Perez Toledo's romantic drama Six Points about Emma she plays a wilful and sexually 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 2018, she made her American television debut appearing in the FX series Trust, playing one of J. Paul Getty's girlfriends, Luciana.

Private life

Echegui is fluent in Spanish and English.
As of 2015, she was living with her then boyfriend of 4 years, Spanish actor Álex García in Brixton, London.
In 2013, her photo was selected for the official poster of the 23rd Festival of the Spanish Cinema in Nantes, France.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleOther notes
2004CerrojosSandraShort film
2005El álbum blancoVerónicaShort film
2006Línea 57NataliaShort film
2006My Name Is JuaniJuaniBarcelona Film Award for Best Actress
Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Actress
Sant Jordi Award for Best Spanish Actress
Nominated—Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Newcomer
Nominated—Goya Award for Best New Actress
Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Actress
2007Un difunto, seis mujeres y un tallerMartaTV film
2007El menor de los malesVanesaMálaga Spanish Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress
2007Tocar el cieloElena
20088 citasVane
2008El patio de mi cárcelIsaNominated—Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Goya Award for Best Actress
2008La casa de mi padreSara
2009Bunny and the BullEloisa
2010La mitad de ÓscarMaría
2010TetequiquieroSandraShort film
2011VerboMedussa
2011Seis puntos sobre EmmaEmmaMálaga Spanish Film Festival Award for Best Actress
2011Katmandú, un espejo en el cieloLaiaNominated—Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Actress
Gaudí Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated—Goya Award for Best Actress
2012The Cold Light of DayLucia Caldera
2013&MEEdurne
2013La gran familia españolaEdurneNominated—Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Feroz Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated—Spanish Actors Union for Supporting performance
2014KamikazeNancy
2016Don't Blame the Karma for Being an IdiotSara
2016You're Killing Me SusanaSusana
2017The Hunter's PrayerDani
2017Lasciati andareClaudia
2017La niebla y la doncellaRuth Anglada
2019Orígenes secretosNorma

Television

Awards and nominations