Laura Cepeda (born June 24, 1953) is a Spanish

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Biography

She is the daughter of Maria de las Mercedes Golferichs and Hector Manuel Cepeda and she was born in

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, where she lived until the age of five, when her mother divorced and moved to Barcelona, her family’s original town. She was studying

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at Barcelona’s University when at the age of 20 years she was arrested by the police, as a result of her participation in a demonstration against the

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. She was released after a couple of days of interrogation and sentenced to house arrest awaiting trial. However, her mother managed to get her a false passport and she left the country with a group of Japanese tourists on their way to Italy. She lived in Milan for 3 years, where she went to college, graduating in Philosophy and drama at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. She studied acting with

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, McCallion and others moving then to Rome where she worked as a stage actress for three years in plays of Bertold Brech (Baal, 1977), Alfonso Del Gatto (El duelo, 1978) or

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(La storia di un soldato, 1979). On her return to Spain after the death of the dictator, she developed a great stage work with the applause of the critic, starring different plays like Amadeus by

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(1982), where she played the wife of the composer, the Glass Menagerie of

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, the Night of the Tribadas of Pero Olov Enquist (1994), the monologue of Charlotte Brontë (1996), or Valeria and the birds of Sanchis Sinisterra (2001) among others. In 1994, Laura created her own production company, Respira Teatro, producing the above-mentioned Night of the Tribadas and Written on the water, with texts of

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(1995). In 1996, she founded a new company, Canalla Teatro, producing the Law of the Jungle of

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(1996), Bronte by

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(1996–1997) and Fidelity, by Chazz Palmentieri (1999). She has developed a long career also on screen, performing different roles in films such as FEN (1979), Kargus (1982), Baton Rouge (1982)- her interpretation in this one earned her a nomination for the Goya Awards as best supporting actress-, Mirada Liquida (1996, best actress prize at the festival of Alexandria in 1997), Nosotras (2000) or Proximo Oriente (2006) amongst other productions. In 2013 she played the role of

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’s mother in Joe Lynch’s film Everly. Between 1981 and 2008, more than twenty TV series or films have also benefited from their acting. Since 2001, her main activity is casting direction both for TV spots and fiction. Her studio has provided actors for many of the best Spanish directors, but also for British and American directors, including

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(El Camino de los Ingleses),

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(Altamira),

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(The Blind of Seville), or Michel Radford (La Mula).

Theatre

*''Amadeus'' Paul Schaffer, 1982 *''La Dorotea'' Lope de Vega, 1983 *''La loca carrera del árbitro'' Martínez Mediero, 1985 *''Negro seco'' de Marisa Hares, 1985 *''Paso a paso'' de R. Harris, 1986 *''

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'' N. Simon, 1987 *''Historia de una muñeca abandonada'' A. Sastre, 1989 *'' El desdén, con el desdén'' Agustín Moreto, 1990–1991 *''

The Glass Menagerie ''The Glass Menagerie'' is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his Histrionic persona ...

'' Tennessee Williams, 1993 *''La noche de las Tríbadas'' P. Olov Enquist, 1994 *''La ley de la selva'' E. Lindo, 1995 *''Bronte'' W. Luce, 1996 *''Common Ground'' H. Fierstein, 1997 *''Fidelidad'' C. Palminteri, 1999 *''Valeria y los pájaros'' J. Sanchís Sinisterra, 2000 *''Todo sobre Vázquez'' Jaime Palacios, 2013 *''El malestar que insiste'' Eduardo Recabarren, 2014

Filmography

*'' The Meadow'' Dir.

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(Italy, 1978) *''FEN'' Dir. A. Hernández (Spain, 1979) *''

Kargus ''Kargus'' is a 1981 Spanish drama film written and directed by Juan Miñón and Miguel Ángel Trujillo, at their feature film debut. The film was entered into the main competition at the 38th edition of the Venice Film Festival.Adriano Aprà, G ...

'' Dir. J. Miñón (Spain, 1981) *''Apaga y Vámonos'' Dir. A. Hernández (Spain, 1983) *''Marga'' Dir. R. Alcázar (Spain, 1987) *'' The Post Office Girl'' Dir.

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(Czech-Spain, 1987) *''

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'' Dir. R. Moleon (Spain, 1988) *''Una espía en mi cama'' Dir. G. Quintana (Spain-US, 1989) *''El niño invisible'' Dir. R. Moleon (Spain, 1995) *''Mirada Líquida'' Dir. R. Moleon (Spain, 1996) *''Náufragos 97'' Dir. A. Pajares (Spain, 1997) *''Nosotras'' Dir. J. Colell (Spain, 2000) *''Grimm'' Dir. A. Van Warmerdam (Spain-Netherlands, 2003) *''Próximo Oriente'' Dir. F. Colomo (Spain, 2006) *''53 días de invierno'' Dir. J. Colell (Spain, 2006) *''Rivales'' Dir. F. Colomo (Spain, 2008) *'' Everly'' Dir. Joe Lynch (US, 2013) *'' El asesino de los caprichos'' Dir. Gerardo Herrero (Spain, 2019)

References

External links

Laura Cepeda's website
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