The Organizing Committee of the Feroz Awards has decided to grant this year the Feroz Honor Award a Victoria April in recognition of his incomparable professional career, with nearly a hundred films and a score of television series.
The actress will collect the award at this year’s ceremony, which will be held next February 8th in the Madrid town of Alcobendas and that will be broadcast live through YouTube.
In the words of Maria Guerra, President of the Association, “Victoria Abril has interpreted the vulnerability, anger and power, pleasure and pain of women of all kinds like no one else. The strength of your characters are the extension of your charisma.“.
Full name Victoria Mérida Rojas, the interpreter was born in Madrid in 1959, and debuted with 15 years in TVE as one of the hostesses of the famous program One, two, three … answer again. Immediately, he began to work in the cinema: he debuted in the film Obsession, of Francisco Lara Polop, already at 17 he rolled, along with the legendary Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn, Robin y Marian.
In 1976 he worked for the first time with Vicente Aranda in Sex change. Con he shot twelve films with impressive performances such as Lovers (1991) with which he won the Silver Bear for the best actress in the Berlin Festival. In 87, Almodovar chose her for a small role in The law of Desire to then roll next to the manchego Tie me up, High heels and Kika.
In Spain, out of nine nominations for Goya, achieved the statuette as the best leading actress with No one will talk about us when we are dead (Diaz Yanes, 1995), which also served him Silver Shell of the San Sebastian Festival that same year.
At present, Victoria Abril lives in France, where began another career in film and television that has earned him several nominations in the Awards CIt’ssar of the French Film AcademyIt’ss and a great popularity among the French public.
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