Conchita Goyanes

Conchita Goyanes is a Spanish actress who played Adela in the Spanish Sesame Street co-production Barrio Sésamo. Mainly a theatre actress, she has played multiple TV adaptations of theatre plays.

Concepción Goyanes Muñoz came from a family of actresses: She was the daughter of 1930s ocassional actress Mimí Muñoz and sister of actresses Mara Goyanes (Autopsy), María José Goyanes (Estudio 1) and Vicky Lagos (Son of the Red Corsair). Through these she was also sister-in-law of actor Manuel Collado (The Ghost Lady, María José's husband) and of deceased actor Ismael Merlo (Vicky's husband).

Conchita Goyanes began her career as a movie actress in 1957, where she played a role in Ramón Torrado's comedy Un fantasma llamado amor. She was not a rising star but then.

It was only five years later, on 1962, where she played a background character in a music comedy of Luis Lucia, Canción de juventud, starring the recently deceased Spanish actress Rocío Dúrcal.

Since, she began having no problem finding one or more movies to act every year: She worked under directors Antonio del Amo, Silvio Balbuena or Rafael Gil before 1965. She also made her debut on TV with a guest appearance in one of the plays of Estudio 3, starring and directed by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador: El extraño caso del Sr. Kellerman ("The strange case of Mr. Kellerman", 1964). She also had a chance to act alongside sister María José in one of Chonchita's guest appearances in TV series Primera fila.

Durking the late 1965s, Goyanes had many movies, specially comedies on TV (such as a guest appearance in Tú Tranquilo in 1965 or in Adolfo Marsillach's Habitación 508 in 1966) as well as TV dramas (guest apparanece in Tengo un libro en las manos, 1966). However, during this time, she also appeared in notable movies under exceptional Spanish directors such as José Luis Sáenz de Heredia (a small role in Historias de la televisión, 1965 and a bigger role in Relaciones Casi públicas, 1968, featuring Concha Velasco and Manolo Escobar); Rafael Gil (Camino del Rocío, with a great cast including Carmen Sevilla, Paco Rabal and Arturo Fernández), Javier Aguirre (musical comedy Los chicos con las chicas, 1967, featuring Manolo Gómez Bur and Rafaela Aparicio), and Juan Bosch (Chico, chica, ¡boom!, 1969).

She also worked with Antonio Gala in a 1967 episode of Y al final esperanza, and in different adaptations of novels for TV series Novela: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1965); Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer (1965) and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1966). She also adapted Henrik Ibsen for Estudio 1.

During the 1970s, Goyanes continued with a tight agenda, specially in comedy and drama. Only in 1970, she worked in a TV movie (Los sobrinos del capitán Grant, José Antonio Páramo) and made three guest appearances on TV series, one in Sospecha' and two in Teatro de siempre'', in two adaptations of different theatre plays (one with respected actor José Sacristán, the other one with her own sister María José). Both were directed by Josefina Molina

1971 was a relax year for her, working only in two episodes of another Josefina Molina series: Hora once. She worked alongside the likes of Agustín González and Lola Gaos on that episodes, and on 1972 she would return to the series to work with Curro Jiménez-popular Álvaro de Luna.

On 1972, she also had a chance to work in her first international film: Italian co-production The House of the Doves (Claudio Guerín), starring Ornella Muti. Due to the stress on that year, she only had chance to return to TV slightly on the following two years, mainly to co-star again with de Luna in another Novela.

On 1974, she returned to TV to work with Mariano Ozores in Novela, and also for December-22nd-episode of Primera hora. She also worked alongside Chelo Vivares (of Barrio Sésamo fame) on 1975 on an episode of Cuentos y leyendas

Goyanes' first top-billing role would not come until 1976 with Las aventuras del Hada Rebeca ("Adventures of Fairy Rebeca"), where she played the title role. Under a script written by Juan Tébar and Lola Salvador (under the alias of Salvador Maldonado), she co-starred with Gabriel Jiménez and Amparo Muñoz.

But it was the Spanish transition after the death of dictator Francisco Franco and the end of censorship. The landismo was an important trend in Spanish cinema, and Goyanes could not resist it. She co-starred with landist Fernando Esteso in Francisco Lara Polop's Virilidad a la española.

Now a considerably important Spanish actress, she top-billed again in an episode of Estudio 1 adapting a work of Alejandro Casona.

She continued working for TV, making guest appearances in different series, for 1978 and 1979. However, in 1979, she also began working for Barrio Sésamo, Spanish co-production of Sesame Street. She played Adela, one of the adult human characters interacting with muppets Caponata and Perezgil. Adela would only appear during the first period of the series, not returning for the Espinete period.

Goyanes semi-retired during the early 1980s to work mainly on theatre. However, she would appear agian mainly on guest appearances of TV series: She was a maid in Imanol Arias soap opera Anillos de oro and also worked in an episode of Alfonso Ungría's Gatos en el tejado, with José Sacristán and Barrio Sésamo Emma Cohen. She returned to TV theatre on two adaptations on 1986, working with Jaime Blanch, Aurora Fernández, Quique Camoiras and María Isbert.

Her only cinema movie in the 1980s was José Luis García Sánchez's theatre adaptation Divine Words (after a play by Ramón María del Valle-Inclán). On that work, she shared billing with super-stars Ana Belén, Paco Rabal and Juan Echanove, to menction only three of them.

She continued that trend during the 2000s: She played guest appearances for Compañeros' and appeared under José Manuel Parada's Cine de barrio. She made a small role in an interesting movie about racism, Carlos Molinero's Savages, staring Marisa Paredes and Imanol Arias, as well as Petra Martínez. She was also a cast member in Emilio Aragón's TV series Javier ya no vive solo, during the second and last season of the series.

Goyanes has not appeared since on TV or cinema.