CHARO LÓPEZ - Performer

While studying Philosophy and Literature in Salamanca, her hometown, she participates in several university theater productions. Her budding artistic vocation finds professional outlet with the films Ditirambo, by Gonzalo Suárez, and El hueso, by Antonio Giménez-Rico in 1967. She studies at the Official School of Cinematography and refines her theatrical technique while working in numerous dramatic spaces on Spanish Television and in series such as Los camioneros, by Mario Camus, and El pícaro, by Fernando Fernán Gómez.

Her foray into cinema at the beginning of the 1970s is limited to spaghetti westerns (El sol bajo la tierra, El bandido Malpelo) and films with little projection that only highlight her photogenicity and striking beauty. Luis Buñuel approves her participation in The Milky Way (1969), but the French actors' union prevents it because she is an unknown actress. Her collaboration with Gonzalo Suárez continues in The Strange Case of Dr. Fausto (1969), La Regenta (1974) and Parranda (1977).

She gains widespread recognition in 1980 with a supporting role in the television series Fortunata y Jacinta, by Mario Camus, in Los gozos y las sombras, a successful series based on the homonymous novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. Subsequently, she takes on significant roles in films: The Beehive and The Old Music, by Camus; Lost Paradises, by Basilio Martín Patino; Time of Silence, by Vicente Aranda; and The Most Natural, by Josefina Molina. She accepts the role that Pedro Almodóvar offers her in Kika in 1993.

In 1997 she premieres Secrets of the Heart, a film by Montxo Armendáriz nominated for the Hollywood Oscar, for which she wins the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Between 1987 and 1989 she tours Argentina with the stage productions We Must Break Up the House and A Special Day. Since then, as an actress and producer, she has favored works that showcase her comedic side, including Let's Keep Sex in Peace and Wild Laughter,