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Encarna Abad
Spanish actress (1927–2014) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Encarna Abad (1927 – 10 October 2014) was a Spanish actress whose career spanned from the late 1930s until her retirement in the 1990s.
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Abad's stage career began in the 1930s[1] as a student of Pérez de León y Tablilla Acting School,[2] and her professional debut was in musical theatre after the Spanish Civil War. She joined Mariano Madrid's company and appeared in comedic roles in Pablo Luna's Molinos de viento (1943)[3] and Francisco Alonso's Luna de miel en El Cairo (1944).[4] She performed in La blanca doble alongside comedy trio Zori, Santos y Codeso (1947);[5] El oso y el madroño (1949);[6]and Su majestad la mujer (1951),[7] all three under composer Jacinto Guerrero.[8][9][5]
In the late 1950s, she appeared in vedette roles in Día y noche de Madrid (1952),[10] Torre de arena (1956),[11] and El visón de Lulú (1959).[12] She performed in sainete productions including Cuidado con la Paca (1951)[13] and El niño de las coles (1951), both by José de Lucio.[14] She changed her stage name from Encarnita ("little Encarna") to Encarna in the early 1960s and ended her musical theatre career to focus solely on comedy.[citation needed] She appeared in Lope de Vega's La malcasada (1962),[15] Alfonso Paso's Un 30 de febrero (1963),[16] La gobernadora with Francisco Piquer (1964)[17] and Un sereno debajo de la cama with Carmen Maura (1970).[18] In 1972, she traveled with the Tirso de Molina company to the German Federal Republic to perform Miguel Mihura's Ninette y un señor de Murcia for Spanish immigrants.[19]
She completed many projects under director Gustavo Pérez Puig, including Anouilh's Los peces rojos (1973),[20] Muñoz's La venganza de Don Mendo (1977),[citation needed] Jardiel's Angelina o el honor de un brigadier (1979),[21] Létraz's Una noche en su casa... señora (1979),[22] Mihura's El caso de la mujer asesinadita (1982), Jardiel's Un marido de ida y vuelta (1985),[23][24] Castro's Las mocedades del Cid (1990),[25] Salinas' Judit y el tirano (1992), Benavente's Los intereses creados (1992), Millán's El cianuro... ¿solo o con leche? (1993), Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio (1993),[26] and Casona's El caballero de las espuelas de oro (1994).[27] In 1995, she appeared in Picospardo's under the direction of Mara Recatero at the Teatro Español.[28] In addition to stage work, she also began working in television in the mid-1960s, particularly in televised theatre programmes like Estudio 1. She also appeared in the films La cumparsita in 1961 and Abuelita Charlestón in 1962. [citation needed] Throughout her career, she was part of several acting companies, including those under Gaspar Campos, Adela González, and Juan Espantaleón, as well as the house company at Teatro Español.[29]
Abad retired in the late 1990s.[citation needed] Abad died on 10 October 2014, at the age of 86–87.[30]
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External links
- Encarna Abad at IMDb
References
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