At 48, Laura Gómez-Lacueva, the versatile actress in film and television, passes away

The actress Laura Gómez-Lacueva, known above all for the humor program Oregon TV, has died at the age of 48 after failing to overcome cancer. The interpreter was born in Zaragoza in 1975 and died this Thursday in her hometown. With a career in film, television and theater, she has appeared in popular series such as The one that is coming (eight chapters), The village (16) o Tell me how it happened y Aida, both in one episode. Alberto Caballero, one of the creators and managers of The one that is coming y The village, He assured in networks when he learned of the death of the interpreter: “Devastated by the death of our beloved Laura Gómez-Lacueva. We have rarely met someone who mixes talent and human quality in such quantities. Life is sometimes very unfair. A kiss, honey. We will always remember you.”

On stage (he studied at the Zaragoza Theater School), he acted in plays such as Yerma, The Revenge of Don Mendo, Gala vs. Gala o Sonnets of love and other delusions. In 2010 he founded the company Nueve de Nueve Teatro in Zaragoza with Jorge Uson and Carmen Barrantes. Usón has expressed his condolences for the death, declaring that he felt “destroyed” by the news.

His last two theater jobs were the extinct poetic y You turned my mourning into dance, both signed by the playwright Eusebio Calonge and the director Paco de La Zaranda, founders of the cult company La Zaranda, with whom they created the group La Extinta Poética. You turned my mourning into dance, Premiered in December 2020 in Zaragoza, it was inspired by poems by María Pisador, a woman who died at the age of 30 from cancer and whose last wish before passing away was to witness a show by La Zaranda. The actress did it when she was already ill, recalls Calonge: “It was hard, but also very poetic. She said that she wanted to give a voice to the people who suffer from it, to tell what happens to them ”.

The playwright recalls that theater was what motivated the actress the most in recent years: “She threw herself into it. She was doing well on television and in the movies, but what she liked above all was stepping on a stage. And the three of us fit in very well. She understood the theater as we do: as something spiritual, out of fashion and noise, the vanity and frivolity that often drive the profession today. She was an actress with capital letters ”. Therefore, after You turned my mourning into dance, They launched a new project, but they canceled it because the interpreter was told that she had metastases. “Before she replaced it, we decided to cancel it and do something else,” Calonge explains.

In cinema, he has worked in films such as The kingdom, of Rodrigo Sorogoyen; From your window to mine y Girlfriend, both by Paula Ortiz; uncertain glory, by Agustí Villaronga; girls, of Pilar Palomero, or unfortunate stories, by Javier Fesser, where she played Tina, an absolutely evil woman who doesn’t let anyone or anything get in the way of her goals. Today in networks the injustice of her non-candidacy for the Goya for this black comedy by Fesser was discussed. For that role she did win the Yago, awarded by the specialized press, to an actress not unfairly nominated for the great Spanish film awards. At that gala in March 2021, Gómez-Lacueva defined her Tina as “a character as complex as she is beautiful.”

The director Paula Ortiz, in a break from the post-production of her new film, Teresa, reminded Gómez-Lacueva: “I cannot separate Laura actress from Laura friend”. The filmmaker and actress collaborated on From your window to mine and in Girlfriend “Almost more as proof of our friendship,” says the director. “She As a person she was wonderful and deeply human, and as a performer to that was added her ability to go from her poetic side to extreme comedy.” Ortiz recalls that they were “distant family”, hence their long journey together, and his great interpretive asset: “He worked very deeply but without causing any tension between colleagues.”

In addition, the actress was one of the protagonists of the short Plastic killer, directed by José Pozo, who was shortlisted for this year’s Oscars. In 2022 he received the Simon Award as the best Aragonese performer of the year.

The parodies of songs that the actress made in Oregon TV They were applauded on social networks and they even took it out of Aragon. She imitated artists like Laura Pausini, Betty Massiego or Ana Belén, but what triumphed was the caricature they did from the Spanish society program. Paula Ortiz underlines the fame that Gómez-Lacueva achieved with this program: “she appeared in a sketch recurring, José Miguel and ET, in which Laura embodied ET, which different generations have enjoyed”.

The actress was satisfied with her career in December last year. “I have not felt that I lacked anything to prove,” she explained in an interview with Herald of Aragon. He also admitted that his passion was theater because it fed his soul. “In the cinema and on TV there is a lot of editing. But the theater is true, it has that handmade point. Sometimes you have 5 spectators and other times 2,000 and you have to do it with the same passion”, he commented.

As soon as the death of Gómez-Lacueva became known, social networks were flooded with messages. The president of Aragon, the socialist Javier Lambán, has said: “I am deeply sorry. A big hug to his family and friends. May the earth be light to him.”