Dead Verónica Forqué, actress launched by Almodóvar was 66 years old

The lifeless body of 66-year-old Spanish actress Verónica Forqué, four times Goya Prize winner, was found this morning at her home in Madrid, on Calle Víctor de la Serna, by the emergency services of 112. The main hypothesis is that of suicide, as reported in the online edition of “El Mundo”. The actress, who had recently starred in the Spanish TV show “Masterchef Celebrity”, had spoken on numerous occasions about the depression she had suffered from. Forqué left the last edition of “Masterchef” precisely for problems of this kind, as she herself had publicly said. A versatile performer in theater, television and cinema, Forqué’s career was launched by director Pedro Almodóvar with the film “What did I do to deserve this?” (1984), who then directed it also in “Matador” (1986) and “Kika – A body on loan” (1993). And Pedro Almodóvar himself learned “with deep sadness” the “shocking news”, remembering Verónica Forqué as “an extraordinary actress and an irreplaceable person” and sent “all love” to the artist’s family. born in Madrid on 1 December 1955 into a family of artists active mainly in the theater. His mother is Carmen Vázquez Vigo, his father is the director José María Forqué, while his brother is the artistic director Álvaro Forqué. He began his career with small parts in his father’s films but the real debut took place in 1972 in the film “Mi querida señorita”. The actress has worked with many Spanish directors including Fernando Trueba, Fernando Colomo and Luis García Berlanga. She was married from 1981 to 2014 to the Spanish actor Manuel Iborra, with whom she had a daughter, Maria, born in 1990. In 2005 she was sworn in at the San Sebastián Film Festival.