Terele Pavez

Teresa Marta Ruiz Penella, known artistically as Terele Pávez (Bilbao, July 29, 1939 - Madrid, August 11, 2017), was a Spanish actress. winner of the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress for the film The Witches of Zugarramurdi (2013). She participated in eight films with the Bilbao director Álex de la Iglesia.

Daughter of the typographer and politician worker Ramón Ruiz Alonso (1903-1978) and Magdalena Penella Silva (died 07/23/1974) (sister of the lyrical actress Teresita Silva), she belonged to a dynasty of artists: granddaughter and great-granddaughter respectively of the composers Manuel Penella Moreno and Manuel Penella Raga and little sister of the actresses Emma Penella (1931-2007) and Elisa Montés (1934). She also had another sister who did not dedicate herself to acting, María Julia (1937-2017, who died a month before Terele). Additionally, she was the aunt of actress Emma Ozores (daughter of her sister Elisa and actor Antonio Ozores).

She had a son with José Benito Alique (1948-2008), who was named Carolo (July 1, 1973 - April 6, 2022).

Her artistic surname, Pávez, came from the second surname of her maternal grandmother, Emma Silva Pávez, of Chilean origin, and which she used to distinguish herself artistically from her sisters.

Career

He was born in Bilbao, but grew up and lived in Madrid, where he considered himself from.

She follows the path taken by her sisters and soon wants to dedicate herself to the world of acting. Her torn voice and her certain fame as a tragic actress lead her to embody on multiple occasions the woman who lives on the edge of misery, resentful of rage and despair.

First stage: from Berlanga to Los Santos Innocents

At the age of twelve he shot his first film, Novio a la vista, by Luis García Berlanga, a role obtained by Jesús Franco, a friend of the family, who will direct it in We are 18 years old (1959). With her older sisters Emma and Elisa already renowned performers, Terele was the third in her family to become an actress. The three sisters only shot one film together, The Fourth Window (Julio Coll, 1963).

He also stands out in theater, under the orders of Miguel Narros and Adolfo Marsillach; In 1968 he successfully starred in La casa de las chivas , which he also made for Spanish Television, in addition to participating in some dramatic spaces ( Estudio 1 , Novela ). In 1978 she played the character of Elicia in a production of La Celestina headed by Irene Gutiérrez Caba.

Her presence in cinema is intermittent during the 1960s and 1970s, being reduced to supporting roles such as Mauricia in Fortunata y Jacinta, a film produced by her brother-in-law Emiliano Piedra and his sister Emma Penella stars, and he appears in the television series Juan y Manuela, Cañas y baro and La barraca. She also works in daring films typical of the Transition such as Tatuaje (1976), by Bigas Luna, and Carne apaleada (1978), by Javier Aguirre, alongside Esperanza Roy.

At that time, her only son, Carolo Ruiz, was born, the result of her relationship with the editor José Benito Alique (who died in 2008). Ella Terele did not want José Benito to recognize the paternity of the child. Previously, in the mid-1960s, the actress had been in a relationship with the Gipuzkoan painter Rafael Ruiz Balerdi, who portrayed her on several occasions.

After a period of less activity, in 1983 Mario Camus offered him the character of Régula in the film based on the novel by Miguel Delibes The Holy Innocents, a masterpiece in his career that brings him unanimous recognition. Shortly after, she plays the last woman executed by garrote in The case of the poisoned women of Valencia , episode of the teleseries The trace of crime directed by Pedro Olea and delves into in the dramatic potential of it.

Until 1989 he appeared in several films, including Requiem for a Spanish Peasant, where he coincided with Antonio Banderas, the box office hit El Lute II: Tomorrow I will be Free, by Vicente Aranda, and especially in Laura, from the sky comes the night, by Gonzalo Herralde, and Winter Diary, by Francisco Regueiro, which earned her nominations for best supporting actress to the Goya Awards in 1987 and 1988. However, he would experience a few years of certain ostracism at the beginning of the 1990s.

Second stage: from The Day of the Beast to Tell Me How It Happened

In 1995 Álex de la Iglesia recovered Terele for the general public in The Day of the Beast, ignoring the producers who considered her "a difficult woman." He plays a «prototype» widow of the most retrograde Spain, who proudly preserves the memory of other times in a photograph by Tejero. In several of his films, De la Iglesia managed to extract from the actress an unknown comedic aspect.

Gerardo Vera calls her the following year to lead the cast of a film version of La Celestina, where this time she is in charge of giving life to the pimp whose bad tricks trigger the tragedy. Criticism falls at her feet, but curiously her work is not nominated for the Goya Awards. The Spanish film academy then decides to expand the number of candidate performers to four. She returned to the theater in 1998 with Madre Caballo , a play by Antonio Onetti with music by Tomatito.

In 2000 he consolidated his growing reacceptance in the industry with his performance in La Comunidad (Álex de la Iglesia), in which he dedicated himself to chasing a Carmen Maura around the rooftops of Madrid who was seizes all the money of a deceased neighbor. This time she manages to enter the shortlist for the Goya awards, losing to Julia Gutiérrez Caba.

Two years later she joins the cast of the series Cuéntame como paso, where she plays a village woman, Purificación Barbadillo, mother of four children and a dead daughter., and widow of a man shot by the rebel side, resentful of the abandonment of her young son, Antonio Alcántara. During her stay in Madrid, Pura manages to remember her past and her own family while she adapts to the changes of new times. Terele is rewarded with her third prize from the Actors' Union - at which she hugged Pilar Bardem - as well as a sixth nomination for the Fotogramas de Plata.

Subsequently, she plays characters closer to comedy both in film (800 balas) and on television and is also honored for her career at the Fuentes de Ebro (2005), Alicante (2005) film festivals. 2006) and Valencia (2008). Furthermore, due to her connection with the masterpiece of Fernando de Rojas, the Toledo City Council of La Puebla de Montalbán awarded her the first Celestina Prize in 2008.

Latest works and Goya award

In 2009 she returned to the theater directing a current comedy, The Duchess in the Hole... and the Widow in the Bun, inspired by the last days of the one known as the Red Duchess. The following year she stars in the comedy Mamááááá!!!, along with Carles Castillo and directed by the theater group La Recua Teatro. For this performance she was awarded by the Friends of the Theater of Valladolid with the Meliá Recoletos award.

He combined the tour with a small role in the film Balada triste de trumpeta, being his fourth collaboration with Álex de la Iglesia. Despite her brief role, the Film Academy took her into account by nominating her for the Goya for the fourth time, for playing the distrustful wife of the veterinarian (Luis Varela) who fixes her. & # 3. 4; the face of the clown Sergio (Antonio de la Torre).

In 2013, the veteran actress premiered another project with Álex de la Iglesia: the film The Witches of Zugarramurdi, with an extensive cast that includes Carmen Maura, Hugo Silva, Mario Casas, and where Terele Pávez had a brilliant role as a witch; for which she was nominated for the Goya Award for the fifth time and for the first time in the first Feroz Awards for best supporting actress and finally won both in February 2014.

The following year he collaborated again with Álex de la Iglesia in Mi gran noche, a film that marked Raphael's return to cinema and achieved significant commercial success. Furthermore, in 2016 she participated as an interviewee in the documentary It's not a laughing matter , a compendium of interviews about the interiors of the show. In 2017, Álex de la Iglesia, as usual, features her in the following film The Bar playing the role of its owner, being her last collaboration between director and actress.

Death

She died on August 11, 2017 at the age of 78 due to a stroke at the La Paz Hospital in Madrid. She was cremated on Sunday, August 13, 2017 at the El Escorial Mortuary-Crematorium (Madrid).).

Pávez Awards

In 2014, awards dedicated to rewarding the work of short filmmakers in each of the departments of a production were created in Talavera de la Reina. Their creators chose to call them "Premios Pávez" as a tribute to the actress, who was present at the first delivery ceremony.

On May 31, 2017, the Government of Castilla-La Mancha, at the hands of its president, Emiliano García-Page, gave the actress the honorary distinction of Hija Adoptiva de Castilla-La Mancha for her professional link to the autonomous community.

Selected filmography

• Oh, my mother! (Frank Ariza, 2019)
• Caribbean Mix (Miguel García de la Calera, 2017)
• Uncertain glory (Agustí Villaronga, 2017)
• The bar (Alex of the Church, 2017)
• The door open (Marina Seresesky, 2016)
• It's not a laugh thing. (Diego Fortea and Jonathan Belles, 2016)
• The Adventures of Moriana (David Perea, 2015)
• My big night (Alex of the Church, 2015)
• The witches of Zugarramurdi (Alex of the Church, 2013)
• Pascal's bet (David Galán Galindo, 2012)
• Sad tile of trumpet (Alex of the Church, 2010)
• The Totenwackers (Ibón Cormenzana, 2007)
• Coffee alone or with them (Álvaro Díaz Lorenzo, 2007)
• Bad grape (Javier Sunday, 2003)
• Nudes (Lluís María Güell, 2003)
• 800 bullets (Alex of the Church, 2002)
• The community (Alex of the Church, 2000)
• 99.9 (Agustí Villaronga, 1997)
• The Celestine (Gerardo Vera, 1996)
• The Day of the Beast (Alex of the Church, 1995)
• The Air of a Crime (Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, 1989)
• Winter Journal (Francisco Regueiro, 1988)
• The Lute II: tomorrow I will be free (Vicente Aranda, 1988)
• Laura, from heaven comes the night (Gonzalo Herralde, 1987)
• God's bastard brother (Benito Rabal, 1986)
• Requiem for a Spanish peasant (Francesc Betriu, 1985)
• The innocent saints (Mario Camus, 1984)
• Pale flesh (Javier Aguirre, 1978)
• Bad streak (José Luis Cuerda, 1977)
• Tattoo (Bigas Luna, 1976)
• Black sword (Francisco Rovira Beleta, 1976)
• The Marriage Revolution (José Antonio Nieves Conde, 1974)
• Fortunata and Jacinta (Angelino Fons, 1970)
• We're not stone (Manuel Summers, 1968)
• The fourth window (Julio Coll, 1963)
• Two and a half and... poison. (Mariano Ozores, 1959)
• We're 18 years old. (Jesus Franco, 1959)
• Boyfriend in sight (Luis García Berlanga, 1953)

Theatre plays

• The lame of Inishmaan, by Martin McDonagh; directed by Gerardo Vera, together with Marisa Paredes and Irene Escolar (2013-2014)
• Mom! (Pep Antón Gómez and Jordi Sánchez -dir. María Elena Diardes-, 2010-2011)
• The duchess to the hole... and the widow to the bollo (Iñigo Ramírez de Haro -dir. José Luis Sáiz-, 2009)
• Mother Horse (Antonio Onetti, 1998)
• Fedra (Merida Classic Theatre Festival, 1982)
• Sulfuric acid (Alfonso Vallejo, 1981)
• Lisistrata (Manuel Martínez Mediero, 1980)
• Isabella. (Ricardo López Aranda, 1978)
• The Celestine (José Tamayo Rivas -adaptation of Camilo José Cela-, 1978)
• Nine toast to a king (Jaime Salom, 1974)
• Mirandolina. The innkeeper (Goldoni -dir. Juan Guerrero Zamora-, 1972)
• You and I are three. (Enrique Jardiel Poncela, 1972)
• The Fair of Cuernicabra (Alfredo Mañas, 1971)
• The house of the chivas (Jaime Salom, 1968-1971)
• Soft eagle (Valle-Inclán, 1966)
• Who wants a glass of Hita's Arcipreste? (José Martin Remembers, 1965)
• Dialogues of heresy (Augustine Gomez Arcos, 1964)
• Carmelo (John Joseph Alonso Millán, 1964)
• The egg (Félicien Marceau, 1963)

Television

• Looking north (Nacho G. Velilla), Antena 3, (2016)
• Operation Battery: The Final Response, Fourth Millennium (Fourth, 2014)
• Pluto B.R.B. Nero (Alex of the Church, 2008)
• MIR (Antonio Santos Mercero, 2008)
• Manolo & Benito Corporeision (Juan Luis Iborra, 2006-2007)
• Movies not to sleep: The child's room (Alex of the Church, 2005)
• History of Star (Manuel Estudillo, 2003)
• Tell me how it happened. (Tito Fernández, 2002-2003, 2004, 2005 and 2011)
• The Quixote of Miguel de Cervantes (Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, 1991)
• The Footprint of Crime 1: The Case of Valencia's Poisons (Pedro Olea, 1985)
• The boat (Leon Klimovsky, 1979)
• Cañas and mud (Rafael Romero Marchent, 1978)
• Theatre night: The house of the chivas (1978)
• Curro Jiménez - Chapter 9: The fate of Antonio Navajo (Mario Camus, 1977)
• Juan y Manuela (Ana Diosdado, 1974)
• The beautiful Dorotea (Juan Guerrero Zamora), 1967
• The Trojans (Miguel Narros, 1966)

Awards and nominations

Goya Awards

Awards of the Union of Actors

Medals of the Film Writers Circle

Sant Jordi Film Awards

Feroz Awards

Silver frames