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Updated Tuesday, February 20, 2024-14:52

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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).