June 11, 1935) is a TV, theatre and television Spanish actress, theatre and opera director.

She went to Institut Maragall, a highschool in Barcelona

Barcelona

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, and she started to study theatre while she was taking some courses of music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

 and language

Language

Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...

s.

When she was 17 years old, she had to substitute the actress Elvira Noriega in the play Medea, that was her first great success.

When she was 19 years old, she married the actor Armando Moreno, who would become her manager later. They both founded a theatre company in 1959, which started in the Teatro Recoletos in Madrid

Madrid

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As a tribute to this actress, the city of Fuenlabrada

Fuenlabrada

Fuenlabrada is a city and municipality located in the Madrid Metropolitan Area, Community of Madrid, Spain. It is located to the southwest of the community, 22,5 km far from the capital, and had a population of 197,836 in 2009. Is the fourth biggest town of Madrid after the capital, Móstoles...

 named a theatre "Sala Municipal de Teatro Núria Espert".

Filmography

• 1954: Once pares de botas
• 1958: La tirana
  La Tirana
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• 1961: A las cinco de la tarde
• 1971: Viva La Muerte
  Viva la Muerte
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• 1976: La ciutat cremada
• 1996: Actresses
• 2003: Soneto
• 2007: Barcelona (un mapa)

Theatre

• 1981: Doña Rosita la soltera
• 1981: Medea
  Medea
  Medea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres. In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of...
  
  
• 1983: The Tempest
  The Tempest
  The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...
  
  
• 1985: Salome
  Salome
  Salome , the Daughter of Herodias , is known from the New Testament...
  
  
• 1990: Maquillaje
• 1998: Master Class
• 1999: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. The original cast featured Uta Hagen as Martha, Arthur Hill as George, Melinda Dillon as Honey and George Grizzard as Nick. It was directed by Alan Schneider...
  
  
• 2003: La Celestina
  La Celestina
  La Celestina , actually called Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea or Comedia de Calisto y Melibea, in English Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea), is a work composed entirely in dialogue published by Fernando de Rojas in 1499...
  
  
• 2006: Play Strindberg
• 2007: Hay que purgar a Totó
• 2009: La casa de Bernarda Alba

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