Núria Espert

Núria Espert i Moreno (born June 11, 1935 in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat , Catalonia ) is a Catalan actress and director . She attended the Instituto Maragall , a high school in Barcelona , and took courses in theater, music and languages. At the age of 19 she married the actor Armando Moreno , with whom she founded a theater company in 1959. A theater in Fuenlabrada , the Sala Municipal de Teatro Núria Espert , is named after her . In 2007 she honored the Unión de Actores de Madrid for her life's work. Juan Cruz published her biography Nuria.

Awards

• 1985: Premio Nacional de Teatro
• 2016: Princess of Asturias Prize for Art

Filmography

• 1954: Once pares de botas
• 1958: La tirana
• 1961: Bread and Blood (A las cinco de la tarde) - directed by Juan Antonio Bardem
• 1970: Viva la muerte - Long live death (Viva la muerte) - literary source, screenplay and director Fernando Arrabal
• 1976: La ciutat cremada
• 1984: The King and the Queen (El rey y la reina) - directed by José Antonio Páramo
• 1996: Actrius
• 2007: Barcelona (un mapa)

theatre

• 1981: Doña Rosita la soltera
• 1981: Medea
• 1983: The Tempest
• 1985: Salome
• 1990: Maquillaje
• 1998: Master Class
• 1999: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• 2003: La Celestina
• 2006: Play Strindberg by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
• 2007: Hay que purgar a Totó

Web links

• Nuria Espert in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Reference to opera directing
• Reference to biography
• Juan Cruz: Nuria

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nuria Espert - Premio Nacional de Teatro 1985. Spanish Ministry of Culture, accessed on December 27, 2019 (Spanish).