Victoria Abril, Feroz Honor Award 2021

The actress will collect the award at the Premios Feroz 2021 ceremony, which will be held on February 8 in Alcobendas and will be broadcast live on YouTube.

The Organizing Committee of the Feroz Awards has decided to award this year the Feroz Honor Award to Victoria Abril in recognition of his incomparable professional career, with nearly a hundred films and twenty television series. The actress will collect the award at the Feroz 2021 Awards ceremony, which will be held next February 8 in Alcobendas and which will be broadcast live through YouTube.

María Guerra, president of the Association of Cinematographic Informants of Spain, organizer of the Feroz, highlights that "we find it a true privilege that Victoria Abril has accepted the Feroz of Honor. She is an immense actress and of unclassifiable talent. Her career is the very mirror of the emotional core of Spanish women throughout several decades of our history. Victoria Abril has interpreted the vulnerability, rage and power, the pleasure and pain of women of all kinds like no one else. The strength of her characters is the extension of "her charisma. She herself is a force of nature that has moved us on screen, and also, at times, made us tremble as journalists."

Victoria Mérida Rojas (Madrid, July 4, 1959) debuted at the age of 15 on Spanish Television as one of the hostesses with round glasses on the famous program 'Un, dos, tres... answer again', by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador. Immediately, he began working in cinema: he debuted in the film 'Obsesión', by Francisco Lara Polop, and at 17 he filmed, alongside Sean Connery, 'Robin and Marian'; He also made 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Wife and Lover', or 'The Bridge'. Although I was going to be a dancer.

En 1976 trabajó por primera vez con Vicente Aranda en ‘Cambio de sexo’; con él rodó doce películas con impresionantes actuaciones, de ‘La muchacha de las bragas de oro’ (1980), a ‘El Lute: camina o revienta’ (1987), pasando por ‘Amantes'(1991) —con la que ganó el Oso de Plata a la mejor actriz en el Festival de Berlín—, ‘Tiempo de silencio’ (1986) o ‘Libertarias’ (1996).

Un año después comenzó en el teatro y dos más tarde volvió a televisión con el programa ‘625 líneas’. También en televisión, Abril estuvo en series míticas: ‘La barraca'(1979); ‘La huella del crimen’ y ‘Los pazos de Ulloa’, en 1985, ‘Los jinetes del alba’ (1987), y más recientemente, ‘Sin identidad’ (2014-15) y ‘Días de Navidad’ (2019) con las que se confirma su progresivo acercamiento al audiovisual nacional tras años alejada de nuestro país.

In 1982, Victoria Abril went to live in Paris for love. There he began another career in film and television that has earned him several César nominations from the French Film Academy and great popularity thanks to series such as 'Clem', which was on air for nine seasons, breaking audience records. In Spain, out of nine Goya nominations, she won the statuette for best leading actress with 'Nobody will talk about us when we have died', (1995) by Agustín Díaz Yanes, which also earned her the Silver Shell at the San Sebastián Festival.

Borau, Berlanga, Chávarri, Camus, Gutiérrez Aragón, Armiñan, Félix Rotaeta and Rafael Monleón also chose her for their films before becoming the 'Almodóvar girl': after playing a small role in 'The Law of Desire' (1987), with him she filmed 'Átame' (1989), 'Tacones Distancias' (1991) and 'Kika' (1993). After years apart, Victoria Abril took the stage at the last edition of the Feroz Awards in Alcobendas to present the director with his award for best dramatic film for 'Dolor y gloria'.

Abril, who has lived in Paris for half his life and speaks French as well as Spanish (also English and Italian), has found the warmth of the public in the theater. She has been an officer of Arts and Letters in France since 1998 and in 2002 she was named a 'knight' of the French Legion of Honor. Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts in 2004, the actress has two Silver Shells from the San Sebastián Festival and also received a tribute in 2015 at the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) together with the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci.

On February 8, the actress will receive her Feroz de Honor at the Teatro Auditorio Ciudad de Alcobendas, an award that has previously been collected by José Sacristán, Carlos Saura, Rosa María Sardà, Chicho Ibáñez Serrador, Verónica Forqué, José Luis Cuerda and the siblings Julia and Emilio Gutiérrez Caba.