Originating from Valencia, Spain, Ana Consuelo Duato Boix began her screen career with a 1987 role directed by Basilio Martín Patino, after growing up in a family that included a business-executive brother and a cousin celebrated in dance. Her breakthrough arrived when she was cast as Mercedes Fernández, the mother of a middle-class household in the prime-time Televisión Española series Cuéntame c…
