Award to Nuria Espert, for a life on stage

The actress Nuria Espert will receive the Emérita Augusta Award 2013 for her professional and personal career on stage, in which she made her debut at just 13 years old when she was still not sure that her vocation was that of an actress. The Catalan interpreter has dedicated 65 years to the theater, either as an actress or as a director, and throughout her career she has embodied dozens of characters, as she herself acknowledges, "larger than life", such as several Medea or Salomé, who they have taken him to the Mérida Festival in various editions.

This award, the only one of the Ceres Awards granted directly by the direction of the Mérida International Festival, is recognition of a lifetime dedicated to theater. Last year, this award went to fellow actor Héctor Alterio. The award, along with the other twelve that complete the winners of the 2013 Ceres Theater Awards, will be presented at a ceremony that will take place on August 29 at the Roman Theater in Mérida.

Nuria Espert was born in Hospitalet de Llobregat in 1935 and at the age of thirteen she was already part of the Children's Titular Company of the Romea Theater in Barcelona. This year she has finished the tour of La Loba, by Lilian Hellman, directed by Gerardo Vera. Her previous work was the monologue The Rape of Lucrecia, by W. Shakespeare, directed by Miguel del Arco. In 2010, at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, the tour of La casa de Bernarda Alba, by F. García Lorca, directed by Lluís Pasqual, in which she played Bernarda, ended, a work for which she received the prestigious Valle-Inclán Award, granted by the magazine El Cultural of the newspaper El Mundo.