Cecilia Freire Peñas (born 17 November 1981) is a Spanish actress. She is best known for playing Blanca Román on Física o Química (2008–2009) and Rita Montesinos on Velvet (2014–2016).
Early life and education
Cecilia Freire Peñas was born on 17 November 1981 in Madrid, Spain.[1]
In theatre, she has worked in London in The Winter's Tale, while in Spain she has been in plays such as La katarsis del tomatazo and Pero ¿quién mató el teatro?, in addition to having taken her first steps in shorts like La habitación de los abrigos by Nerea Madariaga.[1]
From 2008 to 2009, she was part of the Antena 3 series Física o Química in the role of Blanca, the Zurbarán Institute's literature professor, which made her known to the general public. She was one of its veterans, with a character who was always very prominent in stories, but left the series to focus on her theatrical career, having already been successful in the play Luz de gas.[citation needed]
In 2010, she starred in Impares Premium [es] and appeared in the short film Perra. In 2011 she shot another short, Aunque todo vaya mal, the directing debut of the actress Cristina Alcázar [es], who had joined Física o Química to play Marina, the new philosophy professor, just after Freire left.[citation needed]
From 2014 to 2016 she played Rita Montesinos in the Antena 3 series Velvet. Rita is a seamstress in the Galleries, who along with her friends Ana (Paula Echevarría) and Luisa (Manuela Vellés) and her sister Clara (Marta Hazas) are known as the "Velvet girls". Freire appeared in the first four seasons of the series.[3][4] In October 2016 she won Best Female Performer at the 63rd edition of the Ondas Awards for her role as Rita Montesinos.[5]
