Núria Espert

Núria Espert Romero (born L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain June 11, 1935) is a theatre and television actress, and theatre and opera director.

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Espert and the second or maternal family name is Romero.
Núria Espert
Born
Núria Espert Romero

(1935-06-11) 11 June 1935
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), Spain
OccupationActress and director

When she was 19 years old, she married the actor Armando Moreno, who would later become her manager.

Teatre 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".

Professional trajectory

Núria Espert studied high school at the Maragall Institute in Barcelona and later completed her studies with music and languages. At only sixteen years of age, she began to work in amateur theatre and in the 1950s she had the opportunity to perform, in her native Barcelona, great classics such as La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream) (1950) and El jardinero de Falerina (The Gardener of Falerina) (1953), by Calderón de la Barca;[1] Los empeños de una casa (1952), by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz;[2] or Romeo and Juliet (1953), by Shakespeare, adapted into Catalan by Josep Maria de Sagarra.[3] In this language she interpreted numerous works, such as El marit vé de visita (1951).[4]

Her big break came in 1954, when she replaced actress Elvira Noriega in Medea. The triumph she achieved through her performance at the Teatre Grec in Barcelona[5] was decisive for her to dedicate herself to acting in a professional manner. During the following years, and as part of the Lope de Vega Company directed by José Tamayo, she consolidated her position as one of the figures on the Catalan and Spanish scenes. In this line, she obtained success in plays like El caballero de Olmedo (1954), by Lope de Vega; La muralla (1955), by Joaquín Calvo Sotelo; Julio César (1955), by William Shakespeare, together with Mary Carrillo; Las brujas de Salem (1957), by Arthur Miller;[6] or; Don Juan Tenorio (1958), by Zorrilla, together with Luis Prendes.

In 1959, she created her own theater company and, shortly after, she premiered Gigí at the Recoletos Theater in Madrid and Eugene O'Neill's play, Anna Christie.[7]

Prizes
  • 1984 Premio Nacional de Teatro
  • 2016 Premio Princesa de Asturias de las Artes

Filmography

Theatre

Opera

References
  1. "Edición del miércoles, 06 diciembre 1950, página 13 - Hemeroteca - Lavanguardia.es". hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  2. "Edición del martes, 23 septiembre 1952, página 13 - Hemeroteca - Lavanguardia.es". hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  3. "Edición del miércoles, 16 septiembre 1953, página 15 - Hemeroteca - Lavanguardia.es". hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  4. "Edición del viernes, 09 noviembre 1951, página 13 - Hemeroteca - Lavanguardia.es". hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  5. "Edición del miércoles, 23 junio 1954, página 20 - Hemeroteca - Lavanguardia.es". hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  6. "Edición del miércoles, 09 enero 1957, página 18 - Hemeroteca - Lavanguardia.es". hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  7. "ABC MADRID 30-10-1959 página 59 - Archivo ABC". abc. 2019-08-07. Retrieved 2020-05-14.


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