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Spanish actress and Almodóvar muse Verónica Forqué dies at 66

Spanish actress Verónica Forqué, who starred in Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodovar's dark comedy "Kika", has been found dead Monday at her Madrid home after taking her own life, police said.

Spanish actress and Almodóvar muse Verónica Forqué dies at 66
Forqué was one of Spain's most popular actors during the 80s and 90s. Screenshot: Kika. Photo: Dani Pozo/Wikipedia

Forqué, who turned 66 on December 1st, was one of Spain’s most popular actresses during the 1980s and 1990s, appearing in many comedies.

“She committed suicide at her home,” a police spokesman told AFP without giving further details.

She won the best actress prize in 1994 at the Goya Awards, Spain’s top film honours, for her role in “Kika” as a young make-up artist who starts a relationship with the stepson of a philandering American writer.

Forqué also appeared in Almodovar’s 1984 film “What Have I Done to Deserve This?”, his first movie to be released theatrically in the United States, and his 1986 “Matador”.

Spanish actor Antonio Banderas, who appeared in “Matador” alongside her, expressed his condolences on Twitter.

“Goodbye Veronica Forqué. I worked with her several years ago and I remember a sweet, spiritual woman and a very good work colleague,” he wrote shortly after news of her death broke.

The daughter of a director and a writer, Forqué began her studies in psychology but ultimately switched to drama.

She worked with “some of the most important directors in Spanish cinema”, including Luis Garcia Berlanga and Antonio Mercero, in addition to Almodovar, according to the Spanish culture ministry’s website.

Forqué also appeared in theatres and on television, most recently in the celebrity edition of the Spanish version of cooking competition “MasterChef Celebrity”.

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Javier Bardem to get lifetime achievement award at San Sebastian

Movie star Javier Bardem will receive a lifetime achievement award at Spain's San Sebastian film festival, organisers said Friday.

Javier Bardem to get lifetime achievement award at San Sebastian

The 54-year-old, the first Spanish actor to win an Oscar, will collect the Donostia award at the opening gala on September 22, a statement said.

His image will also feature on the poster of this year’s festival.

The organisers praised Bardem for his “ability to slip into another’s skin as he morphs into his characters”, and a career that has gone from “strength to strength”.

Bardem won the best supporting actor award in 2008 for his chilling portrait of a psychopathic killer with a strange haircut in “No Country For Old Men”.

He also protrayed gay Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas in the 2000 biopic “Before Night Falls”, and played the villain in the 2012 James Bond movie “Skyfall”.

Past recipients of the Donostia award — the festival’s highest honour — include Meryl Streep, Richard Gere and Robert De Niro.

The festival was originally intended to honour Spanish language films but has established itself as one of the world’s top movie festivals.

It hosted the world premiere of Alfred Hitchcock’s spy thriller North by Northwest in 1959 and Woody Allen’s Melinda and Melinda in 2004.

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