Actress Verónica Echegui tragically passed away on Sunday, 24 August, following a battle with cancer. She was just 42.
The news of her illness had been kept private and she was hospitalised in the days leading up to her death. The Madrid-born star, who trained at RADA, was known for her roles in the film Bunny and the Bull, where she starred alongside Great British Bake Off’s Noel Fielding, and Sky’s drama series Fortitude.
Spanish newspaper El Pais hailed her as “an essential talent in Spanish cinema of the last two decades”.
In 2009, she featured in the quirky comedy Bunny and the Bull, acting alongside Noel and his Mighty Boosh co-star Julian Barrett. Her character was a foul-mouthed waitress embroiled in a hallucinogenic road trip involving a kidnapped stuffed bear, tramps and dogs.
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From 2015 to 2017, she played Elena Ledesma in Sky Atlantic’s horror psychological thriller Fortitude. In 2022, she starred opposite heartthrob Sam Clafin as Maria Rodríguez in the romantic comedy Book of Love, reports the Express.
In 2012, she shared the screen with Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver in the thriller Cold Light of Day.
Her other notable films include La gran familia española (Family United, 2013), Explota Explota (My Heart Goes Boom, 2020), and Objetos (Lost and Found, 2022).
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She also appeared in TV series such as Intimidad (Intimacy, 2022) and Los pacientes del doctor García (The Patients of Dr Garcia, 2023).
As the news of her death became public, tributes poured in for the beloved star.
Tributes flooded in for the star as the news of her death became public knowledge. One said: “Oh my goodness, how sad. So many young people dying, and with such rapid and sudden illnesses.”
A second added: “I loved this woman… I recently saw the movie ‘Yo soy la Juani’… it was only two weeks ago that I saw it with my wife because she hadn’t seen it… and now this comes out… very sad news to start a Monday…”
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