Terele Pávez

Teresa Marta Ruiz Penella was born in Bilbao on 29 July 1939 but she was raised in Madrid.^[2][3] She was the daughter of CEDA politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso and Magdalena Penella Silva and the niece of actress Teresita Silva [es].^[4][5] Composers Manuel Penella Moreno and Manuel Penella Raga [es] were, respectively, her grandfather and great-grandfather.^[2] She was the aunt of actress Emma Ozores.^[6] Two out of her three sisters also pursued an acting career, under the artistic names of Emma Penella and Elisa Montés, reneging on the paternal surname.^[2][7] She took her artistic name after the second family name of her grandmother on her mother side, Emma Silva Pávez, of Chilean background.^[7][8] She made her big screen debut in Boyfriend in Sight.^[4]

He starred as witch-procuress Celestina in La Celestina (1996). She reportedly was surprised at being offered a leading role instead of the supporting role to which she was used to, and claimed to be afraid of diving into the psychology of an extremely manipulative and dark character.^[9] She had already experience in Fernando de Rojas' work as she had played Celestina's pupil Elicia in a 1978 play.^[10] Her work earned her an Actors Union Award for Best Leading Performance in a Film.^[11]

Pávez had one son (Carolo) with publisher José Benito Alique.^[12]

She died on 11 August 2017 at the Hospital de La Paz in Madrid due to a stroke at the age of 78.^[13][14]