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Beatriz Rico — Biography

Beatriz Rico is a versatile Spanish performer, working as an actress, dancer, presenter, singer and writer in film, television and theatre. She spent much of her career in comedy-leaning television series and on stage; Turkish audiences also know her as Francesca in the 1996 film İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında.

She spent most of her childhood and teens in Gijón and attended the Jovellanos Institute. At nineteen she moved to Madrid to train in drama and ballet, and she began acting in 1993. In the mid-1990s she appeared in films such as Hermana, pero ¿qué has hecho?, Los hombres siempre mienten and Palace, followed by Corazón loco and Quince. Esta Noche No (2002) is regarded as the film that made her name. The same year she played Marisa in Historia de un beso and took part in the television series Un Paso Adelante. Later film work includes È già ieri (2004) and Las hijas de Danao (2014).

On stage she played Doña Inés in Don Juan Tenorio in 1998 and appeared in plays such as Momentos de mi vida, Las señoritas de Aviñón, Los 39 escalones and Las novias de Travolta. Since 2012 she has performed the one-woman show Mejor viuda que mal casada. She has also worked as a singer and photographic model.