Terele Pávez

Teresa Marta Ruiz Penella (29 July 1939 – 11 August 2017), better known as Terele Pávez, was a Spanish actress. She appeared in more than ninety films from 1954 to her death in 2017.

Teresa Marta Ruiz Penella was born in Bilbao on 29 July 1939 but she was raised in Madrid. She was the daughter of CEDA politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso and Magdalena Penella Silva and the niece of actress Teresita Silva [es]. Composers Manuel Penella Moreno and Manuel Penella Raga [es] were, respectively, her grandfather and great-grandfather. She was the aunt of actress Emma Ozores. 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. She took her artistic name after the second family name of her grandmother on her mother side, Emma Silva Pávez, of Chilean background. She made her big screen debut in Boyfriend in Sight.

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. She had already experience in Fernando de Rojas' work as she had played Celestina's pupil Elicia in a 1978 play. Her work earned her an Actors Union Award for Best Leading Performance in a Film.

Pávez had one son (Carolo) with publisher José Benito Alique.

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