Irene Visedo

{{Infobox person

| name = Irene Visedo

| image = Irene Visedo en la presentación de la tienda de Hispanitas en Madrid (2016) 04.jpg

| caption = (2010)

| birth_name = Irene Visedo Herrero

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1978|07|16|df=y}}

| birth_place = Madrid, Spain

| occupation = Actress

}}

Irene Visedo Herrero (born 16 July 1978) is a Spanish actress who became popular in Spain for her performance as Inés Alcántara in the TV series Cuéntame cómo pasó.

Biography

Born in Madrid on 16 July 1978.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elperiodico.com/es/tele/20160120/irene-visedo-ines-apetece-trabajar-mas-antes-4831686|website=El Periódico|title=Irene Visedo: "He vuelto a hacer de Inés porque me apetece trabajar ahora más que antes"|date=20 January 2016|first=Juan Carlos|last=Rosado}} She started training as an actress when she was 14 years old, although her first chance at a feature film did not come until she was 18, with a performance in El ángel de la Guarda (1996).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bekia.es/cine/noticias/carrera-actriz-irene-visedo-4-papeles-importantes/|website=Bekia|title=La carrera como actriz de Irene Visedo a través de sus 4 papeles más importantes|first=Laura|last=Catalá|date=16 September 2018}}{{Cite web|website=Vanitatis|url=https://www.vanitatis.elconfidencial.com/noticias/2015-03-26/irene-visedo-la-mujer-con-quien-comparte-techo-sandra-barneda_734941/|publisher=El Confidencial|date=26 March 2015|first=M.|last=Palmero|title=Irene Visedo, la mujer con quien comparte techo Sandra Barneda}}

Visedo's first leading role in a film came with Cascabel (2000), a coming-of-age story of two friends (Cascabel and Luz) who want to leave their past behind and succeed in the world of music.{{Cite web|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/02/04/cultura/949618810_850215.html|website=El País|title=Daniel Cebrián debuta con una película sobre la juventud rural|first=Amelia|last=Castilla|date=4 February 2000}} Her performance won her the Best New Actress Award at the Toulouse's Cinespaña Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=https://elcultural.com/Cebrian-los-suenos-de-la-adolescencia|website=El Cultural|title=Cebrián: los sueños de la adolescencia|first=Carlos|last=Reviriego|date=6 February 2000}}

She starred in Guillermo del Toro's El Espinazo del Diablo (The Devil's Backbone), a 2001 Spanish-Mexican gothic horror film where she played Conchita, a young teacher.{{Cite web|url=https://riunet.upv.es/bitstream/handle/10251/41332/NOSFERATU_043_006.pdf;jsessionid=3DA4C45D055850A3E23ADF16C2763A6A?sequence=4|website=Nosferatu|title=Federico Luppi. Filmografía|issue=43|first=Dolores|year=2003|last=Devesa|first2=Alicia|last2=Potes|pages=104–105|issn=1131-9372}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.com.py/espectaculos/manana-sigue-ciclo-de-cine-jorge-aiguade-786615.html|website=ABC Color|title=Mañana sigue ciclo de cine "Jorge Aiguadé"|date=19 September 2004}} She also played the role of Mónica Erigaray in Los pasos perdidos (The Lost Steps), a Spanish-Argentine production also released in 2001.{{Cite web|url=https://www.libertaddigital.com/cultura/2001-10-29/conflicto-de-identidades-enfermedad-y-busqueda-de-raices-en-la-cuarta-jornada-de-la-seminci-48847/|website=Libertad Digital|date=29 October 2001|title=Conflicto de identidades, enfermedad y búsqueda de raíces, en la cuarta jornada de la Seminci}}

Visedo joined the cast of the new drama series Cuéntame cómo pasó (originally set in 1968), aired on La 1 since 2001. She played the character of Inés Alcántara, the older sibling of the Alcántara family, a "nonconformist spirit" who originally worked as hairdresser.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elespanol.com/corazon/famosos/20180125/cambiado-vida-miticos-personajes-cuentame-paso/279972858_0.html|website=El Español|date=25 January 2018|title=Así ha cambiado la vida de los míticos personajes de 'Cuéntame cómo pasó'|first=Edurne|last=Pujol}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.es/noticias/20150727/abci-irene-visedo-volvera-ines-201507271209.html|website=ABC|title=Irene Visedo volverá a ser Inés Alcántara en "Cuéntame cómo pasó"|date=27 July 2015}} The role marked her artistic career and earned her popularity.{{Cite web|url=https://www.levante-emv.com/ocio/tv/series/2015/07/27/irene-visedo-vuelve-ines-alcantara-12560993.html|website=Levante-EMV|title=Irene Visedo vuelve a ser Inés Alcántara en 'Cuéntame como pasó'|date=27 July 2015}}

She starred together with Hugo Silva and María Valverde in El hombre de arena (2007), a love story set in an inverosimile location (a Francoist psychiatric hospital in Extremadura),{{Cite web|url=https://www.elperiodicoextremadura.com/noticias/cultura/historia-amor-centro-mental-extremeno-llega-cines_335656.html|title=Una historia de amor en un centro mental extremeño llega a los cines|website=El Periódico Extremadura|date=6 November 2007}} and where she played the role of Carmen, a doctor seeking to reform the institution.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-2964277|website=El Tiempo|title=Malos hábitos|date=6 June 2008}} In 2007, after more than one hundred episodes, Visedo decided to leave Cuéntame and to focus on her film career.{{Cite web|url=https://cadenaser.com/ser/2015/07/27/television/1437990632_620344.html|website=Cadena Ser|title=Vuelve la Inés Alcántara original a 'Cuéntame'|date=27 July 2015|first=David|last=Redondo}} Years later, in 2010, the vacant role of Inés Alcántara would be recast for Pilar Punzano, whom Visedo shares a reasonable physical resemblance and whom with Visedo had previously shared a leading role in Cascabel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elcomercio.es/culturas/tv/201508/08/ines-ines-20150808184913.html|website=El Comercio|title=¿Inés o Inés?|first=Yolanda|last=Veiga|date=8 August 2015}}{{refn|group=n.|In a 2008 special episode of Cuéntame, the character of Inés Alcántara had been already played by {{ill|Marieta Orozco|es}}, although the actress did not show her face on-screen.{{Cite web|url=https://www.diariodesevilla.es/television/Personajes-caras-Ines-Alcantara_0_891211544.html|title=Personajes con dos (o más) caras como Inés Alcántara|website=Diario de Sevilla|date=19 February 2015|first=Fátima|last=Díaz}}}} After her first spell in Cuéntame, Visedo appeared in the family film Carlitos y el campo de los sueños (2008), playing the role of Maite, a cook who helps the lead character, an orphan child who just dreams about having a family and playing football.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elnortedecastilla.es/20080819/cultura/pelicula-carlitos-campo-suenos-20080819.html|website=El Norte de Castilla|date=19 August 2008|title=La película 'Carlitos y el campo de sueños' recupera el género de la comedia familiar|first=Irene|last=Perezagua}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmundo.es/metropoli/2008/08/18/cine/1219085515.html|website=El Mundo|date=18 August 2008|first=Pedro|last=Calleja|title=Oliver Twist futbolístico}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmundo.es/encuentros/invitados/2008/08/3205/|title=Ha estado con nosotros... Irene Visedo|website=El Mundo|date=29 August 2008}}

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Visedo also starred in La mujer del anarquista (The Anarchist's Wife), a romantic drama set in the Spanish Civil War and the Post-War period, where she played the adult version of Paloma (the child and teenage versions of Paloma were respectively played by Alba Barragán and Ivana Baquero).{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmundo.es/metropoli/2009/01/20/cine/1232467981.html|website=El Mundo|title=De derrota en derrota|first=Juan|last=Pando|author-link=Juan Pando|date=20 January 2009}} She also had a leading role in Los amores locos (2009),{{Cite web|url=https://www.europapress.es/cultura/cine-00128/noticia-amores-locos-irene-visedo-eduard-fernandez-20100218111450.html|website=Europa Press|title=Los 'Amores locos' de Irene Visedo y Eduard Fernández|date=18 February 2010}} for which she won an award at the 14th Spanish Film Festival of Toulouse.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/10/11/paisvasco/1255265876.html|website=El Mundo|date=12 October 2009|title=El festival de Toulouse premia a 'Ander', de Roberto Castón}}

In 2010, she starred in {{ill|La duquesa (TV miniseries)|es|La duquesa (telefilme)|lt=La duquesa}}, a biopic miniseries where Visedo portrayed a young version of Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart (the older version of the Duchess of Alba was played by Adriana Ozores).{{Cite web|url=https://www.hoy.es/v/20100425/sociedad/haran-otro-episodio-duquesa-20100425.html|website=Hoy|title=Harán otro episodio de 'La Duquesa'|date=25 April 2010}} She starred together with Gustavo Salmerón in the psychological thriller La Senda, were both performers play a troubled couple paying a visit to a remoted cabin in the woods in order to get their marriage back on track.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eldia.es/vidaycultura/2013-02-28/15--senda-abre-camino-cinematografico-Miguel-ngel-Toledo.htm|website=El Día|date=28 February 2013|title="La senda" abre el camino cinematográfico de Miguel Ángel Toledo}}

In 2015, after Pilar Punzano was not renewed in Cuéntame—not free from controversy and acrimonious crossed accusations between Punzano and the rest of the cast—{{Cite web|url=https://www.revistavanityfair.es/cultura/entretenimiento/articulos/pilar-punzano-imanol-arias-cuentame-como-paso-acusaciones-despido/21273|website=Vanity Fair|title=Cuéntame cómo pasó o el drama real detrás del drama ficticio|date=8 September 2015|first=Raquel|last=Piñeiro}} Visedo was offered her former role as Inés Alcántara. She thus returned to the series, then at its 17th season, when the fiction was set in 1984.{{Cite web|url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2015/07/27/television/1437996969_762765.html|website=El País|title=La actriz Irene Visedo vuelve a ‘Cuéntame cómo pasó’|date=27 July 2015}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.diariovasco.com/culturas/tv/201511/30/irene-visedo-actriz-comparto-20151130004722-v.html|website=El Diario Vasco|title=Irene Visedo: "No comparto las opiniones de Punzano"|first=Miguel Ángel|last=Alfonso|date=30 November 2015}}

Filmography

;Film

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes \|\| {{Abbr\|Ref\|References}}
2000 \| Cascabel \| Cascabel \| \| align = "center" \|
2001 \| El Espinazo del Diablo (The Devil's Backbone) \| Conchita \| \| align = "center" \|
2001 \| Los pasos perdidos (The Lost Steps) \| Mónica Erigaray \| \| align = "center" \|
2007 \| El hombre de arena (The Sandman) \| Carmen \| \| align = "center" \|
2008 \| {{ill\|Carlitos y el campo de los sueños\|es}} \| Maite \| \| align = "center" \|
2008 \| La mujer del anarquista (The Anarchist's Wife) \| Paloma \| Adult version of the character. Child and teenage versions played by Alba Barragán and Ivana Baquero \| align = "center" \|
2009 \| Amores locos (Mad Love) \| Julia \| \| align = "center" \|
2012 \| La senda \| Ana \| \| align = "center" \|

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes || {{Abbr|Ref|References}}

2000

| Cascabel

| Cascabel

| align = "center" |

2001

| El Espinazo del Diablo (The Devil's Backbone)

| Conchita

| align = "center" |

2001

| Los pasos perdidos (The Lost Steps)

| Mónica Erigaray

| align = "center" |

2007

| El hombre de arena (The Sandman)

| Carmen

| align = "center" |

2008

| {{ill|Carlitos y el campo de los sueños|es}}

| Maite

| align = "center" |

2008

| La mujer del anarquista (The Anarchist's Wife)

| Paloma

| Adult version of the character. Child and teenage versions played by Alba Barragán and Ivana Baquero

| align = "center" |

2009

| Amores locos (Mad Love)

| Julia

| align = "center" |

2012

| La senda

| Ana

| align = "center" |

;Television

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes \|\| {{Abbr\|Ref\|References}}
2001–2008; 2015–2021 \| Cuéntame cómo pasó \| Inés Alcántara \| The character was played between 2010 and 2015 by {{ill\|Pilar Punzano\|es}} \| align = "center" \|
2010 \| {{ill\|La duquesa (TV miniseries)\|es\|La duquesa (telefilme)\|lt=La duquesa}} \| Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart \| TV Miniseries. Young version of the character. Mature version played by Adriana Ozores. \| align = "center" \|

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes || {{Abbr|Ref|References}}

2001–2008; 2015–2021

| Cuéntame cómo pasó

| Inés Alcántara

| The character was played between 2010 and 2015 by {{ill|Pilar Punzano|es}}

| align = "center" |

2010

| {{ill|La duquesa (TV miniseries)|es|La duquesa (telefilme)|lt=La duquesa}}