Soledad Lopez

SOLEDAD LOPEZ is an award-winning bilingual actress born in Avila, Spain where she began appearing in the theatre at an early age. Since 2000, she is the main resident Actress at Thalia Spanish Theatre in New York, where she is also the Managing Director and Director of the Bilingual Theatre for Children & Youth Workshops. She just won the 2019 Latin ACE Award from the Association of Latin Critics of Entertainment in NY, and the 2019 HOLA Award, from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors, as Best Actress for La Golondrina. In Film, she starred in Francisco Lupini's Sufrir como dedos que no sangran, El Nido Vacio and Blackout, which were showed at several International Festivals winning several Awards, and in the hit comedy Webseries ¡Madre Mía! She also starred in Tony Wakefield's Exilios, a USA Network production which won the Best Short Film Award at Mexico's International Film Festival. In Theatre, she has starred in numerous New York productions, among them: La Visionaria (Public Theater), El Purgatorio de San Patricio (St. Patrick's Cathedral), The Misunderstanding (LATE), The Audience & Play Without A Title (Haworth Shakespeare Festival). In 1989, she performed with critical acclaim the monologue Verde doncella asalta un cine. In 1984 she received the Best Actress Award at the Golden Age Theatre Festival of El Paso, Texas, for Don Juan Through the Centuries. She received ACE Best Actress Awards for Palomas Intrépidas in 1996, for her monologue Las Prostitutas os precederán en el Reino de los Cielos in 1994, and for Entre Mujeres in 1995 (also winner of an HOLA Award in 2000) at Thalia, where she also appeared in 2010 in the world premiere of Borges & Piazzolla Tango, and in 2008 in Don Juan Through the Centuries, winning the ACE & HOLA Best Featured Actress Award. She starred with Josean Ortiz in 2019 in the New York Premiere of the LGBT drama La Golondrina; in 2013 in the bilingual world premiere of Ramirez de Haro's Secret Weapons of FAT Destruction for which she received the ACE Award for Best Actress; in 2012 in the bilingual world premiere of Jaime Salom's La CALLAS & MEDEA (ATI Award for Best Actress); in 2007 in the American premiere of Salom's The Ladies of Avignon (ACE and HOLA Awards as Best Actress); in 2004 in the American premiere of Salom's Almost a Goddess (ACE and HOLA Awards as Best Actress); and in the bilingual world premiere of Ed Lopez' Fireflies (HOLA Award for Best Ensemble Cast). In 2003, 2007, 2014 and 2017 she starred in the American premiere of Ramos Perea's We Women Do It Better Than Men which won her the ACE and HOLA Awards as Best Actress; in 2002 in the American premiere of Carlos Fuentes' The One-Eyed Man Is King, in 2001 in Jardiel Poncela's Brake Four Hearts (And Put in Reverse), and in 2000 in Picasso's Guernica, and in Calderon's The Great Theatre of the World, for which she received the HOLA Award as Best Actress. In 2005 she was awarded the VERMEIL MEDAL of The French Academie des Arts-Sciences-Lettres in Paris.