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Verónica Echegui, a Goya Award-winning actress and director, was a prominent Spanish cinema figure known for her advocacy against sexual abuse and gender violence.
- Spanish actress and director Verónica Echegui died on Sunday, August 24, 2025, at age 42 in Madrid's 12 de Octubre Hospital after treatment for cancer.
- Having kept her diagnosis private, Verónica Echegui had been admitted for days to the 12 de Octubre Hospital for cancer treatment, El País and Fotogramas reported.
- She rose to prominence after starring in Bigas Luna's film, who reportedly chose Verónica Echegui from over 3,000 hopefuls, and her short film Tótem loba won the Goya Award for Best Short Film.
- A wake will be held at the Tanatorio de la Paz in Alcobendas, Madrid, ABC confirmed, as Antonio Banderas, actor, and Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez paid tribute amid shock across Spain's film industry.
- Through Tótem loba she confronted sexual abuse and gender violence, drawing on personal experience, while her final screen role appeared this year in the Apple TV+ series Love You to Death.
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Actress Verónica Echegui (42) has died in Madrid. Her death came as a complete surprise to the Spanish film world and the general public. Echegui kept her cancer diagnosis secret. She died quietly. The actress shone in "Yo soy la Juani" and won the Goya Prize for Best Short Film for "Tótem Loba."
Veronica Echegui died at age 42 after dealing with an aggressive illness in secret. The famous Spanish interpreter who acted with Mexican Gael García in Me you are killing, Susana. The death of the actress of Paquita Salas (2018) was confirmed by the Union of Actors and Actresses (Spain). Later, Pedro Sánchez, president of Spain, dedicated a message of condolences to her in X. “I am shocked by the news of the death of Veronica Echegui, an actres…
Few people in the Spanish film industry are said to have known about her cancer – on Sunday the award-winning actress Verónica Echegui succumbed to her suffering. She was only 42 years old.
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