Núria Espert

Núria Espert (born Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain June 11, 1935) is a theatre and television Spanish actress, theatre and opera director.

She went to Institut Maragall, a high school in Barcelona, and she started to study theatre while she was taking some courses of music and languages.

When she was 17 years old, she had to substitute the actress Elvira Noriega in the play Medea, that was her first great success.

When she was 19 years old, she married the actor Armando Moreno, who would become her manager later. They both founded a theatre company in 1959, which started in the Teatro Recoletos in Madrid.

Teatro Núria Espert, Sant Andreu de la Barca, Barcelona

As a tribute to this actress, the city of Fuenlabrada named a theatre "Sala Municipal de Teatro Núria Espert".

Prizes

• 1984 Premio Nacional de Teatro.

Filmography

• 1954: Once pares de botas
• 1958: La tirana
• 1961: A las cinco de la tarde
• 1971: Viva La Muerte
• 1976: La ciutat cremada
• 1996: Actresses
• 2003: Soneto
• 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
• 2007: Hay que purgar a Totó
• 2009: La casa de Bernarda Alba

External links

• Núria Espert at the Internet Movie Database