Petra Martínez Pérez (born 24 June 1944) is a Spanish actress who has a long career on stage, film and television.
She was in the cast of the 1967 stage play ''
Twelfth Night
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'', by
William Shakespeare
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. In 1968, she married her eventual longtime domestic and artistic partner
Juan Margallo in Gibraltar in a ceremony without legal validity to Spanish authorities (their marriage was legally formalised circa 2018).
In 2011, Uroc Teatro, founded by Petra Martínez and Juan Margallo, received the
Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes. In 2012 she was nominated to Premio Luna de Islantilla for Best Actress at Festival Internacional de Cine Bajo la Luna Islantilla Cinefórum for the film ''Libre directo''.
In 2014, she featured in the television series ''
La que se avecina
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'', playing Fina.
In 2017 she received the Premio Jiennenses de Cultura, given by Diario Jaén. On March 18, 2017 she earned the 'San Pancracio' Honorary Award at the alongside the actors
Roberto Álamo,
Laia Marull
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,
Carlos Santos,
Ana Castillo
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, and directors
Koldo Serra
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Filmography Director
* '' Amor de madre'' (1999)
* ''El Tren de la bruja'' (2003)
* ''The Backwoods'' (2006)
* ''Gominolas'' (2007) TV series (1 epi ...
and
Salvador Calvo and the stage designer Marcelo Pacheco.
On the same year she created an
Instagram
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account because she was usurped so many times.
In 2021, she starred in David Martín de los Santos's ''
That Was Life'' as María. Her performance clinched her a
Feroz Award for Best Actress and a nomination for
Best Actress
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at the
36th Goya Awards
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.
Filmography
Film
References
External links
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Spanish stage actresses
Spanish film actresses
Spanish television actresses
People from Linares, Jaén
20th-century Spanish actresses
21st-century Spanish actresses
Living people
1944 births
Actresses from Andalusia