Chus Lampreave
Acting
Biography
María Jesús Lampreave Pérez (11 December 1930 – 4 April 2016), known as Chus Lampreave, was a Spanish actress. Born in Madrid, she began appearing in films in 1958, but she became internationally known thanks to her roles in films by Pedro Almodóvar, where she played old ladies with maternal or pastoral traits. She died in Almería in 2016 at the age of 85.
Born: December 11, 1930
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Known For
Talk to Her
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
The Executioner
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.
Volver
Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Total
"Total" opens the trilogy that close "Amanece que no es poco" and "Así en el Cielo como en la Tierra" Year 2598. Three days ago, the world has come to the end in London, a lost and a small Castilian village atmosphere. Lorenzo, a shepherd, tells a series of extraordinary events that have been announcing the end of the world: the cows want to go to school, walls crumble, or Doña Paquita appears in the most unexpected places ..
Broken Embraces
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing
Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year.
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.
Streetcar for Sale
This excellent short film written by the magnificent filmmaker duo of Luis García Berlanga and screenwriter Rafael Azcona was to be part of a series entitled Los Pícaros (The Rogues) which was never continued. These two artists were responsible for such masterpieces of Spanish cinema as Plácido and El verdugo (The Executioner). Here, Berlanga and Azcona collaborated for the first time, setting the stage for the post-war "Berlanguiana" vision that would develop. José Luis López Vázquez plays Julián, a seedy swindler, who with his cronies tries to sell a streetcar to a rich but naive farmer, a newcomer to the city. High jinx ensue. With this film begins the great stage of Berlanga's filmmaking in which he mixes a little social criticism and notes of anti-clericalism with a great deal of farce.
National Heritage
After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, where they have remained for decades in voluntary exile, with the purpose of returning to Madrid to actively participate in the social events of the aristocracy and to get closer to the closest circle of the Spanish monarch. The obsession of the old marquis is centered on getting in touch with the most illustrious surnames, to ascend socially and to resume the pomp and courtly life that his family lost a long time ago. To this end, he decides to move into an old palace he owns, located in the center of the capital, but not before overcoming the difficulties posed by his wife, who deeply hates both her husband and her son. To regain control of the palace, the Marquis of Leguineche tries to handicap his wife, arguing an incurable mental illness, and then undertake a reform of the place in order to adapt it to aristocratic life.
Filmography
as Reme
as Amelia
as María
as Concierge
as Celia
as Tía Paula
as Self (archive footage)
as Madre de Víctor
as Doña Vicenta
as Doña Pepa
as Concierge
as Josefa
as Madre Fundadora
as Doña Asunción
as Madre de Leo
as Sofia
as Alicia's Mother
as Chus
as Doña Rosa
as Avelina
as Doña Asun
as Matilde
as Doña Antonia
as Álvarez
as Self
as Doña Petra
as Jehovah's Witness Goalkeeper
as Emilia
as Antonia
as Beni
as Vecina
as Doña Tránsito
as Pilar
as Farmacéutica #2
as Bibiana
as Adela Mora
as Araceli
as Florita
as Doña Aurelia
as María
as Abuela
as Puri
as Criada
as Flo-Flo
as Sor Rata de Callejón
as Álvarez
as Viti
as Viti
as Doña Gertrudis
as Viti
as Manoli
as Rosalinda
as Clara
as Aurora
as Chus (as María Jesús Lampreave)
as Mayor's Wife
as Sobrina de Chus
as (scenes deleted)
as Visiting Woman of the Work
as Chus
as Yolanda Proharán
as Marujita
as Adelina - secretaria de Don Manuel (uncredited)