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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1930-12-11

Place of Birth

Madrid, Spain

Chus Lampreave

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.

Known for

Broken Embraces

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.

Belle Époque

Belle Époque

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.

Talk to Her

Talk to Her

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

Volver

Volver

Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.

And They Lived Happily Ever After

And They Lived Happily Ever After

Manoli and Fernando, a couple of communist ideas, want to live their love freely, fleeing from any bourgeois convention. At first, the couple rejects the help of her parents, but soon they will begin to give in and accept all kinds of comforts.

Teresa de Jesús

Teresa de Jesús

An account of the life of Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582), from her spiritual awakening to her final days, as she struggles to reform the Order of the Carmelites and with her own faith.

Year of Enlightment

Year of Enlightment

April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. Once in the sanatorium, Manolo, surrounded by boys all much younger than he is, feels a bit like the cock of the walk since the only other man around is the handyman Emilio who looks after the gardens and does whatever needs to be done about the place. His wife, Rafaela, is the cook. Manolo meets Irene, a falangist who runs the sanatorium, and the school teacher, Miss Transito, a crabby spinster. He has his first sexual experience, albeit as a voyeur, with his nurse Vicenta. When she has to leave, her place is taken by a girl from the village, Maria Jesus, with whom Manolo falls hopelessly in love. A relationship grows up between them which will mark them both for ever.

Hermanas

Hermanas

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

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.

Mátame mucho

Mátame mucho

The Flower of My Secret

The Flower of My Secret

Middle-aged romance author Leo writes under a pseudonym, since she despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works overseas, is distant both physically and emotionally. As she reevaluates her life and writing, Leo is led to an unexpected relationship with Ángel, a sensitive newspaper editor.

Matador

Matador

A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.

Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law

Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law

A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant.

Nunca es tarde

Nunca es tarde

Antonio and Teresa are a couple who live in a flat in San Sebastian. Ursula Michelena, an elderly woman over 70 years old, lives on the top floor. Ursula is secretly in love with Antonio, whom he continually spies from one of the windows of her house. One night she sees Antonio and Teresa making love and that fact excites her violently, in such a way that she asks Antonio for a secret appointment and tells her that she is pregnant and that the son she is waiting for is his. Úrsula, according to her version, has become pregnant looking at Antonio and Teresa making love.

Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella

Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella

For this second film in the cult comedy series Torrente takes our fat police officer from Madrid to Marbella in Spain to investigate a villain’s plot to destroy the city with a missile. This James Bond style slapstick comedy became the most successful box-office film in Spanish film history beating out only the first Torrente film.