Concha Velasco
- Geburt:
- 29.11.1939
- Tot:
- 02.12.2023
- Mädchenname:
- Concepción Velasco Varona
- Zusätzliche namen:
- Conchita Velasco
- Kategorien:
- Schauspieler, Sänger, TV-Moderator, Sprecher, Tänzerin
- Friedhof:
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Concepción Velasco Varona (29 November 1939 – 2 December 2023), known professionally as Concha Velasco –also Conchita Velasco–, was a Spanish actress, singer and television presenter.
She received numerous accolades throughout her career in film, theater and television spanning over six decades, including two National Theater Awards presented by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 1972 and 2016, the Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Spanish Television Academy in 2009 and the Honorary Goya Award presented by the Spanish Film Academy in 2012.
Some of her credits include leading film performances in Red Cross Girls (1958), Los tramposos (1959), The Fair of the Dove (1963), Television Stories (1965), The Witching Hour (1985) and Beyond the Garden (1996); stage performances in ¡Mamá, quiero ser artista!, in several plays that author Antonio Gala wrote for her and in the Spanish productions of Filumena Marturano and Hello, Dolly!; television performances in Teresa de Jesús and Herederos on Televisión Española, Motivos personales on Telecinco and Gran Hotel on Antena 3, as well as in numerous television shows as a presenter for those three networks.
She had been also the recipient of many honors. The Government of Spain honored her with the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts in 1987, the Gold Medal of Merit in Labour in 2008 and with the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise in 2016. The Spanish Film Academy honored her with its Gold Medal in 2003.
Life and career
Concepción Velasco Varona was born in Valladolid on 29 November 1939. At the age of ten, she moved to Madrid where she studied classical and Spanish dance at the National Conservatory. She made her debut as a dancer in the corps de ballet of the La Coruña opera and later worked as a flamenco dancer with Manolo Caracol and as revue dancer with Celia Gámez.
She began her career in the cinema at the age of fifteen in several titles as a supporting actress. Her first films as a leading actress was Red Cross Girls (1958). During the 1960s and 1970s she combined her work starring in films and in plays for theater and television. In the film Television Stories (1965) she performed the song "Chica ye ye" composed by Augusto Algueró with lyrics by Antonio Guijarro. The song became a hit and she suddenly found success as a yé-yé singer recording eight albums.
After an early career with a filmography in line with the tenets of francoism and close to the regime's favoured filmmaker José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, she eventually developed left-wing views and was reportedly vetoed for her trade union activity. At age 80, she described herself as "Catholic, Socialist, and Spanish".
During the 1970s and 1980s she performed more serious roles. Her most successful role for television was in Teresa de Jesús (1984) as Teresa of Ávila. Also in the 1980s she launched her career as television presenter hosting the New Year's Eve variety shows to welcome 1985, 1986 and 1987 on Televisión Española.
On 14 March 2018 she announced that, after a career of 64 years, the stage play El funeral would be her last. She retired on 21 September 2021 with her last performance of the play La habitación de María at Theatre of Bretón de los Herreros in Logroño.
She died on 2 December 2023 in the Hospital Puerta de Hierro in Majadahonda (Madrid).
Filmography
Film- 1954: El bandido generoso
- 1955: The Moorish Queen as Bailaora
- 1956: La fierecilla domada
- 1956: Dos novias para un torero
- 1956: Los maridos no cenan en casa
- 1957: Mensajeros de paz
- 1957: Muchachas en vacaciones
- 1958: Red Cross Girls as Paloma
- 1959: El día de los enamorados as Conchita
- 1959: Los tramposos as Julita
- 1959: Crimen para recién casados
- 1959: Vida sin risas
- 1960: Amor bajo cero
- 1960: Julia y el celacanto
- 1960: Peace Never Comes as Paula
- 1961: The Reprieve as Antonia
- 1961: Trampa para Catalina
- 1961: Martes y trece
- 1961: My Wedding Night as Fernanda Jiménez
- 1961: Festival en Benidorm as Lía / María / Estefanía
- 1962: Sabían demasiado
- 1963: La boda era a las doce
- 1963: The Fair of the Dove as Susana / Mari Loli
- 1964: Casi un caballero
- 1965: Television Stories as Katy
- 1965: Susana
- 1965: Honeymoon, Italian Style as Rosetta de Curtis
- 1965: La frontera de Dios
- 1966: El arte de no casarse
- 1966: Hoy como ayer
- 1966: El arte de casarse
- 1966: Honeymoon, Italian Style
- 1967: Pero... ¿en qué país vivimos?
- 1967: Las Locas del conventillo as María
- 1967: Las que tienen que servir as Juana Cortés
- 1968: Una vez al año, ser hippy no hace daño
- 1968: Relaciones casi públicas as Marta
- 1968: Los que tocan el piano
- 1969: Cuatro noches de boda
- 1969: Matrimonios separados
- 1969: Juicio de faldas as Marta
- 1970: La decente as Nuria
- 1970: Después de los nueve meses
- 1970: En un lugar de La Manga
- 1971: Me debes un muerto
- 1971: Préstame quince días as Iris
- 1972: No encontré rosas para mi madre
- 1972: Venta por pisos
- 1973: El amor empieza a medianoche
- 1973: El Love Feroz o cuando los hijos juegan al amor
- 1974: Tormento
- 1974: Mi mujer es muy decente, dentro de lo que cabe as Margarita
- 1975: Yo soy fulana de tal as Mapi Sánchez
- 1975: Pim, pam, pum... ¡fuego!
- 1975: Un lujo a su alcance
- 1976: Long Vacations of 36 as Mercedes
- 1976: Libertad provisional
- 1977: Esposa y amante
- 1978: Jaque a la dama
- 1979: Cinco tenedores
- 1979: Ernesto as Aunt Regina
- 1982: La colmena as Purita
- 1985: The Witching Hour as Pilar
- 1989: Esquilache as Pastora Patermo
- 1992: Yo me bajo en la próxima... ¿y usted? as Concha
- 1996: Beyond the Garden as Palmira Gadea
- 1996: Sombras y luces. Cien años de cine español
- 1999: París-Tombuctú
- 2000: Km. 0 as Marga
- 2001: Sólo yo sé tu nombre
- 2003: El oro de Moscú as Pastora Bernal
- 2006: Welcome Home
- 2007: Boystown as Antonia
- 2007: Crazy as Nuria
- 2009: Por la gracia de Luis
- 2009: Rage as Sra. Torres
- 1959: Ven y ven al Eslava
- 1961: Los derechos de la mujer, by Alfonso Paso
- 1962: The boyfriend
- 1962: Las que tienen que servir, by Alfonso Paso
- 1965: Elena para los miércoles
- 1966: Don Juan Tenorio as doña Inés, by José Zorrilla
- 1966: El cumpleaños de la tortuga
- 1967: Una chica en mi sopa
- 1969: El alma se serena by Juan José Alonso Millán
- 1970: Llegada de los dioses as Verónica, by Antonio Buero Vallejo
- 1972: Abelardo y Eloísa
- 1974: Las cítaras colgadas de los árboles as Olalla, by Antonio Gala
- 1977: Las arrecogidas del beteario de Santa María Egipcíaca by José Martín Recuerda
- 1979: Filomena Marturano as Filonema, by Eduardo De Filippo
- 1981: Yo me bajo en la próxima... ¿y usted? by Adolfo Marsillach
- 1986: ¡Mamá, quiero ser artista! by Juan José de Arteche
- 1988: Carmen, Carmen as Carmen, by Antonio Gala
- 1992: La truhana by Antonio Gala
- 1997: La rosa tatuada by Tennessee Williams
- 1999: Las manzanas del viernes as Orosia, by Antonio Gala
- 2001: Hello, Dolly! as Dolly, by Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart
- 2003: Inés desabrochada
- 2006: Filomena Marturano as Filonema, by Eduardo De Filippo
- 2009: La vida por delante
- 2011: Concha, yo lo que quiero es bailar
- 2012: Hélade
- 2013: Hécuba as Hecuba, by Euripides
- 2014: Olivia y Eugenio
- 2016: Reina Juana as Juana
- 2018: El funeral
- 2019: Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman
Ursache: wikipedia.org
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