EFE Salamanca
Salamanca
Updated Tuesday, February 20, 2024-14:52
Interview "It cannot be that in Spain there are people who do not know that they are committing sexual assault"
The Mallorcan actress Victoria Luengo has been recognized with the 2024 Princess of Girona Art Award, presented by the Princess of Girona Foundation, for her "naturalness", "love for her craft" and "ability to inspire new generations of artists". "I'm very excited. Normally they give you an award for a job, but it had never happened to me that they gave me an award
for the way I feel about this job
," Luengo said when receiving the award at the Center for Performing Arts and Music (CAEM) of Salamanca, in a ceremony presided over by Queen Letizia.
"I am very excited. Normally they give you an award for a job, but it had never happened to me that they gave me an award for the way I feel about this job," said Luengo when receiving the award at the Center for Performing Arts and Music (CAEM) of Salamanca, in a ceremony presided over by Queen Letizia. "I have been an actress since I was 15 years old, I am passionate about being an actress,
it is my vocation and dream
, and I can say that I have achieved it," celebrated the interpreter, who told how she told her mother that she would achieve it, but in their own way.
Victoria Luengo had previously explained that
she wants to leave behind
the name by which she has been better known until now, Vicky Luengo, and has recalled that she is about to premiere the series
Reina Roja
.
The latest success of Victoria Luengo (Palma de Mallorca, 1990) is
Prima Facie
,
the theatrical monologue about sexual consent
with which she is touring throughout Spain with recognition from critics and the public.
Luengo was nominated for the Goya for best protagonist for the film
Suro
, a role for which she received the Gaudí Award, for which she was also nominated for her work in the film
Chavalas
, for which she won the
Ojo Crítico de Cine Award
.
Luengo achieved popularity with her leading role as inspector Laia Urquijo in the series
Antidisturbios
, for which she won, among others, the Fotogramas Award for best television actress and the Ondas Award for best female performer in fiction. In theater, among the
19 professional productions
in which she has participated, in addition to the current
Prima Facie
, her performance in
El Golem
(Godot Award for best actress),
Una perra en un descampado
(Critics Award) stands out.
.
Queen Letizia
has presided over the central event of the
Talent Tour 2024
in Salamanca, within the framework of the Princesa de Girona CongresFest, which had as its main element the Princess of Girona Art 2024 Award.
Luengo competed with four other candidates: the chef Carlos Casillas Hernández (Ávila, 1999) - who was among the two finalists -, the architect Raúl Almenara Domínguez (Córdoba, 1990), the architect and designer Anna Devís Benet (Valencia, 1990) and the choreographer Yoel Ferré Vargas (Tarragona, 2003).