Born in Madrid, she pursued philosophy and literature at Paris’s École des Beaux-Arts before launching a performing career as a cabaret singer. Her screen debut arrived in 1970 with The Man in Hiding, followed by a notable turn in Tigres de papel (1977) and a series of comic roles in mid-eighties productions such as Sal gorda and Tata mía. A frequent collaborator of Pedro Almodóvar, she appeared i…