The actress Alicia Hermida was born on September 26, 1932 in Madrid. She is also an acting teacher.
She is a theater actress, with a vast career in this medium, despite the fact that she also has extensive filmography in productions for the big screen, as well as a very long television career.
With a great vocation for acting from an early age, Alicia, once she finished her secondary studies, immediately joined the María Guerrero Theater Company in Madrid, beginning to intervene in different plays and having never left the stage since then.
Among the works that he has starred in, which are many, we can highlight “Plaza de Oriente”. “Measure for measure”, “The time of fantasy”, “The diary of Anne Frank”, “The cherry garden”, “The house of Bernarda Alba”, “The cat on the tin roof” or “Doña Rosita la soltera ”, among others.
In 1981, the actress went on a tour with the theater company founded by García Lorca, La Barraca, later starting to give acting classes there, and then became the Alicia Hermida School.
As for cinema, her debut took place in 1960, when José María Forqué offered her the opportunity to work on his film “Maribel and the Strange Family”. Although the big screen has surely been the medium in which he has worked the least, we can point out some interesting titles in his filmography, such as “Gary Cooper, who are in heaven”, “Bicycles are for summer”, “The forest Animated “or” Secondary Roads “, among some others.
As for the small screen, Alicia is a very popular character on it, since it can be said that she works in television since it began to work in our country.
His first job was offered by Jaime de Armiñán, in “Wives Gallery”, after which he participated in two series by the same director, “Women alone” and “Girls in the city.” Since then, his face is one of the regulars on the small screen, especially in the plays that are made within some programs or in a large number of series.
In 2001 she was offered to play the role of Valentina in the series “Tell me how it happened”, where she stayed until 2010, the year in which she was hired to star in the Spanish version of “The Golden Girls”, in which she gave life to the character of Sofia.
The actress has always been an activist, a person very concerned about social problems, highlighting the struggle she has always led against the blockade of Cuba. In 2009, he surprised everyone by being part of the Internationalist Initiative – Solidarity among Peoples candidacy for the European Parliament, a list annulled by the Supreme Court considering it related to ETA-Batasuna, a sentence that the Constitutional Court later annulled, allowing him to attend. to the elections.
Alicia has accumulated a large number of awards and recognitions during her professional career. Among the many that she has, we will cite the Award for the best secondary actress in the theater for her role in “Fedra”, the Award for the best actress in the Mediterranean Film Festival of Valencia for her work in the film “El hombre de la refrigerator ”, or the Max Award for the best supporting actress for her performance in“ Divinas Palabras ”.