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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1925-11-08

Place of Birth

Manresa, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

Asunción Balaguer

Known for

Love in Difficult Times

Love in Difficult Times

Amar en tiempos revueltos is a Spanish soap opera set in the times of the Spanish civil war and the early Francoism. The serial has been aired from 2005 and has won prizes in Spain and a Silver Medal in the «New York Festivals». In January 2013 will air on Antena 3 with new name, Amar es para siempre

La que se avecina

La que se avecina

La que se avecina is a Spanish television comedy created by Alberto Caballero, Laura Caballero and Daniel Deorador. The TV-series focusing around the inhabitants of Mirador de Montepinar, a fictional building located on the outskirts of a big city. Both its storylines and cast are heavily based on Aquí no hay quien viva, which ended when Telecinco bought Miramón Mendi, the series production company. The episodes debuted on the Telecinco network, and were later rerun by the same network as well as cable/satellite channels FactoríaDeFicción and Paramount Comedy. The series debuted in 22 April 2007 and became popular thanks to its funny characters, witty script, use of catchphrases and capacity to integrate and poke fun at contemporary issues; the program presents a caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society. The name of the show involves wordplay, as "vecina" is the Spanish word for neighbour.

Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel

A young man arrives at the Grand Hotel, an ideal place in the middle of the wilderness to investigate his sister's disappearance. What he ignores is that he's about to meet his greater love: the pretty and seductive daughter of the Hotel's owner. Between this young couple, of different social classes, a very passionate love will be born. A dangerous romance will be entwined with the mysteries and secrets hidden between the walls of the Grand Hotel. In The Grand Hotel no one is who we think it is, no one is free of hazards or suspicious. A complex web of lies, secrets and betrayal awaits...

Los misterios de Laura

Los misterios de Laura

With her intuition and instinct, Laura Lebrel del Bosque, an innocent and intelligent police inspector with very original methods, naturally solves impossible crimes, dismantles alibis, and figures out who the murderer in every episode is. Meanwhile, her marriage with inspector Jacobo is not going through its best phase, she has to deal with her duties as a housewife and a mother of two very naughty five-year-old twins, and her workmate Martín cannot help getting into trouble.

El chiringuito de Pepe

El chiringuito de Pepe

Polseres vermelles

Polseres vermelles

The story of a group of Catalan children and teenagers who meet as patients in the children's wing of a hospital.

María Rosa

María Rosa

In order to get María Rosa, the woman he is deeply in love with, Marsal murders a moneylender hated by all the people and casts suspicion on his friend Andrés, the husband of his beloved María Rosa. After being imprisoned Andrés, Marsal becomes the protector of María Rosa while waiting for the development of events.

Solo mía

Solo mía

A women meets a charming man and falls in love, they get married and start a family. As they age and have children, the man's becomes violent and abusive.

Quimera

Quimera

A journalist, overwhelmed by problems, contemplates suicide. He then finds a way out of his desperate situation by fleeing to a mountain village haunted by the legend of a bloodthirsty wolf that he, perhaps, can hunt.

El mundo de Juan Lobón

El mundo de Juan Lobón

Christopher Colombus

Christopher Colombus

Vittorio Cottafavi's four part series on the life of Christopher Colombus

Caiman's Dream

Caiman's Dream

Iñaki, a petty thief, is forced to leave Spain because of a crime that got complicated. He decides to go to Mexico to meet his father, and realizes that he has lived a life of lies, but also discovers other things, within a group of guys with little luck.

Vidas pequeñas

Vidas pequeñas

Broken Silence

Broken Silence

Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco resistance. Lucía is attracted to Manual, because of his smile and the bravery of those men who continue fighting for their ideas, even at the cost of their own lives. When Manuel is pursued (by Franco's Civil Guard) he flees to the mountain and Lucía discovers the reality of political repression, the silence, the horror and fear.

How to Be Miserable and Enjoy It

How to Be Miserable and Enjoy It

Carmen suddenly becomes a widow at 40 just as her daughter finds herself pregnant. Carmen will try to piece her life back together.