The Organizing Committee of the Feroz Awards has awarded 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 the Feroz 2021 Awards ceremony, which will be held on February 8 in Alcobendas and will be broadcast live via YouTube.
“It is a real privilege that Victoria April has accepted the Feroz de Honor ”, assures Maria Guerra, President of the Association of Cinematographic Informants of Spain. “She is an immense actress of unclassifiable talent. Her career is the very mirror of the emotional guts of Spanish women throughout several decades of our history. Victoria April he 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. She herself is a force of nature that has thrilled us on screen, and has also made us shiver at times as journalists. ”
Victoria Merida Rojas (Madrid, July 4, 1959) debuted at the age of 15 on Spanish Television as one of the hostesses with round glasses of the famous program One, two, three … answer again, of Chicho Ibáñez Serrador. Immediately, he began to work in the cinema: he debuted in the film Obsession, of Francisco Lara Polop, and at 17 he rolled, next to Sean Connery, Robin y Marian; also did Little red riding hood, Wife and lover, O The bridge. Although I was going to dancer.
In 1976 he worked for the first time with Vicente Aranda in Sex change; with him he shot twelve films with impressive performances, from The girl in the golden panties (1980), a The Lute: walk or bust (1987), going through Lovers (1991) -with which she won the Silver Bear for best actress at the Berlin Film Festival-, Time of silence (1986) o Libertarians (1996).
A year later he started in the theater and two later he returned to television with the program 625 lines. Also on television, April was in mythical series: The barrack (1979); The trace of crime and The pazos de Ulloa, in 1985, The riders of dawn (1987), and more recently, Without identity (2014-15) and Christmas days (2019) with which her progressive approach to the national audiovisual after years away from our country is confirmed.
Half life in Paris
In 1982, Victoria April went to live in Paris for love. There he began another career in film and television that has earned him several nominations in the César awards of the French Film Academy and great popularity thanks to series such as Clem, which spent nine seasons on the air, breaking audience records.
In Spain, out of nine Goya nominations, she achieved the statuette as the best leading actress with No one will talk about us when we are dead, (1995) from Agustin Diaz Yanes, which also served him the Silver Shell at the San Sebastián Festival.
Almodóvar girl
As well Borau, Berlanga, Chávarri, Camus, Gutierrez Aragon, Armiñan, Felix Rotaeta O Rafael Monleon they chose her for their movies before becoming Almodóvar girl: after doing a small role in The law of Desire (1987), with him he rolled Tie me up (1989), Far heels (1991) and Peek (1993).
After years apart, Victoria April took the stage at the last edition of the Feroz Awards in Alcobendas to present the director with his award for the best dramatic film for Pain and glory.
Victoria Abril, who has lived in Paris for half his life and speaks French as well as Spanish (also English and Italian), has found the warmth of the public in the theater. She has been an officer of the Arts and Letters of France since 1998 and in 2002 she was named ‘knight’ of the French Legion of Honor. Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts 2004, the actress has two Silver Shells from the San Sebastián Festival to her credit and also received a tribute in 2015 at the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) together with the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci.
The Feroz Awards
On February 8, the actress will receive her Feroz de Honor at the Ciudad de Alcobendas Auditorium Theater, an award that they have previously collected José Sacristán, Carlos Saura, Rosa María Sardà, Chicho Ibáñez Serrador, Verónica Forqué, José Luis Cuerda and the brothers Julia and Emilio Gutiérrez Caba.
The Feroz Awards, which have been awarded since 2014, are organized by the Association of Cinematographic Informants of Spain (AICE), sponsored by the Alcobendas City Council and Mercedes-Benz Spain. It also has the collaboration of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Community of Madrid, Silestone® by Cosentino, FlixOlé, the Denomination of Origin Ribera del Duero and with the support of the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA) of the Ministry of Culture and Sports.
The IAEC is a plural group of more than 230 journalists and critics dedicated to reporting on film on television, radio, press and the Internet throughout the country.
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