Victoria Abril is not exactly an actress.

Or it is but with all the consequences.

Which puts her somewhere else, on the side of vertigo.

And there, in that indeterminate space at the limit of all suicides, nothing is stable, no precision is valid, definitions do not work.

Richard Brooks,

the director of 'In Cold Blood', said upon seeing her that he had never seen anything like it.

He commented it as one who sees things for the first time.

He was referring to the sex scene in '

Átame

', Almodóvar's film also arranged on an unbalanced stage, and since then all the lists of enraged lovers begin (some also end) in the fiery body of the actress who this year receives the

Feroz Honor Award with the intention of renaming the award itself.

The ferocity also begins and ends in her.

You will receive the statuette (there is one) on February 8 in Alcobendas.

Good site.

Reviewing his filmography is a lot like walking along the edge of that abyss that Kierkegaard proposed as the gold standard of all anguish, fear and, most importantly, freedom.

Freedom even from suicide.

She came to the world in Madrid in 1959.

At the age of 15 she made her television debut

with fake glasses in the program

'Un, dos, tres ... respondda vez',

by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador.

Immediately, he started working in the cinema: he made his debut in the film '

Obsesión

', by Francisco Lara Polop, and at 17 he shot, along with Sean Connery, '

Robin and Marian'

;

He also did '

Little Red Riding Hood

', '

Wife and Lover'

, or '

The Bridge

'.

Of course, she, said by her, was going to dancer.

And so on until at the dawn of that ever-so-cited Transition he met

Vicente Aranda

.

With him he dared to do

'Sex change

' in 1976. And daring is more than a trope, it is even a top of those that the Seat 124 gave after a jerk.

With him he would shoot up to twelve films.

And all of them, to the limit.

Or, better still, determined to draw, to discover, the limit.

From '

The girl with the golden panties

' (1980), to '

El Lute: walks or busts'

(1987), passing through '

Lovers

' (1991) --with which she won the Silver Bear for best actress in the Berlin Festival -,

'Tiempo de silencio'

(1986) or '

Libertarias

' (1996), all of them were and lived in the small, impertinent, violent and, above all, tremendously fierce gesture of the actress who really was and something else.

A year later he started in the theater and two later he returned to television with the program '

625 lines'

.

Also on television, Abril was in mythical series: '

La barraca

' (1979);

'

The footprint of crime

' and '

Los pazos de Ulloa'

, in 1985,

'The horsemen of the dawn'

(1987), and more recently, '

Without identity

' (2014-15) and '

Christmas days

' (2019).

In 1982, Victoria Abril went to live in Paris.

He did it, he says, for love.

Although it is not difficult to understand that the world was too small for him and in Paris the boulevards are wider.

There he began another career in film and television that has earned him several nominations at the

César

awards at 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 won the statuette as the best leading actress with '

No one will speak of us when we are dead

', (1995) by Agustín Díaz Yanes, which also won her the Silver Shell at the San Sebastian Festival.

With him he would return in

'Without news of God'

(2001) and '

I only want to walk'

(2008).

Also

Borau, Berlanga, Chavarri, Camus, Gutiérrez Aragón, Armiñan, Felix Rotaeta or Rafael Monleón

chose it

for his films before becoming '

Almodóvar girl

': after making a small role in '

The law of desire

' (1987), with he shot '

Tie Me

' (1989), '

Far Heels'

(1991) and '

Kika

' (1993).

After years apart, Victoria Abril 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 her 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 a '

knight

' of the

French Legion of Honor

.

Isn't the '

official

'

consideration

so relevant in France and so scarce in Spain striking?

Without remedy.

If one bothers to draw a line from '

Sex change

' to '

No one will speak ....

'

going through '

Tie me

' and '

Kika

', to name the irremediable, what comes out is not so much the profile of an actress as the diagram of a seismograph.

The Richter scale from one extreme to another.

Feroz Grand Prize.

Moreover, it is she who rewards the prize itself.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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