# Laura Cepeda > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Laura_Cepeda > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Laura_Cepeda.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Cepeda > Source revision: 1188978905 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Spanish actress (born 1953)}} {{No footnotes|date= December 2014}} '''Laura Cepeda''' (born June 24, 1953) is a Spanish [actress](/source/actress). thumb|right|Laura Cepeda == Biography == She is the daughter of Maria de las Mercedes Golferichs and Hector Manuel Cepeda and she was born in [Monterrey](/source/Monterrey), [Mexico](/source/Mexico), where she lived until the age of five, when her mother divorced and moved to Barcelona, her family’s original town. She was studying [philosophy](/source/philosophy) at Barcelona’s University when at the age of 20 years she was arrested by the police, as a result of her participation in a demonstration against the [Spanish State](/source/Spanish_State). She was released after a couple of days of interrogation and sentenced to house arrest awaiting trial. However, her mother managed to get her a false passport and she left the country with a group of Japanese tourists on their way to Italy. She lived in Milan for 3 years, where she went to college, graduating in Philosophy and drama at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. She studied acting with [Grotowski](/source/Grotowski), [Strasberg](/source/Lee_Strasberg), [McCallion](/source/McCallion) and others moving then to Rome where she worked as a stage actress for three years in plays of [Bertold Brech](/source/Bertold_Brech) (Baal, 1977), [Alfonso Del Gatto](/source/Alfonso_Del_Gatto) (El duelo, 1978) or [Dario Fo](/source/Dario_Fo) (La storia di un soldato, 1979). On her return to Spain after the death of the dictator, she developed a great stage work with the applause of the critic, starring different plays like Amadeus by [Peter Shaffer](/source/Peter_Shaffer) (1982), where she played the wife of the composer, the Glass Menagerie of [Tennessee Williams](/source/Tennessee_Williams), the Night of the Tribadas of [Pero Olov Enquist](/source/Pero_Olov_Enquist) (1994), the monologue of Charlotte Brontë (1996), or Valeria and the birds of [Sanchis Sinisterra](/source/Sanchis_Sinisterra) (2001) among others. In 1994, Laura created her own production company, Respira Teatro, producing the above-mentioned Night of the Tribadas and Written on the water, with texts of [Luis Cernuda](/source/Luis_Cernuda) (1995). In 1996, she founded a new company, Canalla Teatro, producing the Law of the Jungle of [Elvira Lindo](/source/Elvira_Lindo) (1996), Bronte by [William Luce](/source/William_Luce) (1996–1997) and Fidelity, by [Chazz Palmentieri](/source/Chazz_Palmentieri) (1999). She has developed a long career also on screen, performing different roles in films such as FEN (1979), Kargus (1982), Baton Rouge (1982)- her interpretation in this one earned her a nomination for the Goya Awards as best supporting actress-, Mirada Liquida (1996, best actress prize at the festival of Alexandria in 1997), Nosotras (2000) or Proximo Oriente (2006) amongst other productions. In 2013 she played the role of [Salma Hayek](/source/Salma_Hayek)’s mother in [Joe Lynch](/source/Joe_Lynch_(director))’s film [Everly](/source/Everly_(film)). Between 1981 and 2008, more than twenty TV series or films have also benefited from their acting. Since 2001, her main activity is casting direction both for TV spots and fiction. Her studio has provided actors for many of the best Spanish directors, but also for British and American directors, including [Antonio Banderas](/source/Antonio_Banderas) (El Camino de los Ingleses), [Hugh Hudson](/source/Hugh_Hudson) (Altamira), [Peter Jackson](/source/Peter_Jackson) (The Blind of Seville), or [Michel Radford](/source/Michel_Radford) (La Mula). == Theatre == *''Amadeus'' Paul Schaffer, 1982 *''La Dorotea'' Lope de Vega, 1983 *''La loca carrera del árbitro'' Martínez Mediero, 1985 *''Negro seco'' de Marisa Hares, 1985 *''Paso a paso'' de R. Harris, 1986 *''[The Odd Couple](/source/The_Odd_Couple_(theater_play))'' N. Simon, 1987 *''Historia de una muñeca abandonada'' A. Sastre, 1989 *''[El desdén, con el desdén](/source/El_desd%C3%A9n%2C_con_el_desd%C3%A9n)'' Agustín Moreto, 1990–1991 *''[The Glass Menagerie](/source/The_Glass_Menagerie)'' Tennessee Williams, 1993 *''La noche de las Tríbadas'' P. Olov Enquist, 1994 *''La ley de la selva'' E. Lindo, 1995 *''Bronte'' W. Luce, 1996 *''Common Ground'' H. Fierstein, 1997 *''Fidelidad'' C. Palminteri, 1999 *''Valeria y los pájaros'' J. Sanchís Sinisterra, 2000 *''Todo sobre Vázquez'' Jaime Palacios, 2013 *''El malestar que insiste'' Eduardo Recabarren, 2014 == Filmography == *''[The Meadow](/source/The_Meadow_(film))'' Dir. [Taviani Brothers](/source/Taviani_Brothers) (Italy, 1978) *''FEN'' Dir. A. Hernández (Spain, 1979) *''[Kargus](/source/Kargus)'' Dir. J. Miñón (Spain, 1981) *''Apaga y Vámonos'' Dir. A. Hernández (Spain, 1983) *''Marga'' Dir. R. Alcázar (Spain, 1987) *''[The Post Office Girl](/source/The_Post_Office_Girl_(film))'' Dir. [Édouard Molinaro](/source/%C3%89douard_Molinaro) (Czech-Spain, 1987) *''[Baton Rouge](/source/Baton_Rouge_(1988_film))'' Dir. R. Moleon (Spain, 1988) *''Una espía en mi cama'' Dir. G. Quintana (Spain-US, 1989) *''El niño invisible'' Dir. R. Moleon (Spain, 1995) *''Mirada Líquida'' Dir. R. Moleon (Spain, 1996) *''Náufragos 97'' Dir. A. Pajares (Spain, 1997) *''Nosotras'' Dir. J. Colell (Spain, 2000) *''Grimm'' Dir. A. Van Warmerdam (Spain-Netherlands, 2003) *''Próximo Oriente'' Dir. F. Colomo (Spain, 2006) *''53 días de invierno'' Dir. J. Colell (Spain, 2006) *''Rivales'' Dir. F. Colomo (Spain, 2008) *''[Everly](/source/Everly_(film))'' Dir. [Joe Lynch](/source/Joe_Lynch_(director)) (US, 2013) *''[El asesino de los caprichos](/source/The_Goya_Murders)'' Dir. Gerardo Herrero (Spain, 2019) ==References== {{Reflist}} == External links == *[http://www.lauracepeda.com/ Laura Cepeda's website] {{Portal|Biography|Spain|Film}} * {{IMDb name|nm0148387}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cepeda, Laura}} Category:20th-century Spanish actresses Category:21st-century Spanish actresses Category:Spanish film actresses Category:1953 births Category:Actresses from Monterrey Category:Spanish stage actresses Category:Living people --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Laura Cepeda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Cepeda) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Cepeda?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.