Biography
María Jesús Lampreave Pérez (11 December 1930 – 4 April 2016), known as Chus Lampreave, was a Spanish actress. Born in Madrid, she began appearing in films in 1958, but she became internationally known thanks to her roles in films by Pedro Almodóvar, where she played old ladies with maternal or pastoral traits. She died in Almería in 2016 at the age of 85.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Me, the President
2015
Spain's recent election have alarmed europe. It's the second time blank votes win, plunging the country into chaos. The European Union decides to elec...

Torrente 5
2014
as Reme
Crooked cop Torrente gets out of jail in the year 2018 to find a different Spain from the one he knew.

The Artist and the Model
2012
as María
In occupied France in summer 1943, a world-weary famous sculptor finds the desire to work again with the arrival of a beautiful young Spanish refugee.

Broken Embraces
2009
as Concierge
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, ...

Chef's Special
2008
as Celia
Maxi thinks his life is perfect. He is a famous cook who owns a successful restaurant in Chueca and is living his life as a gay man without much compl...

Volver
2006
as Tía Paula
Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality.

Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido!
2005
as Self (archive footage)
Abandoned by her husband, a woman takes to the streets in search of money to feed her children. (Promotional short for the film What Have I Done to De...

Say I Do
2004
as Madre de Víctor
An unlikely couple fake a relationship to win a TV game show prize. Wannabe actress Estrella dreams of becoming a hostess on a romance reality-TV show...

Robbery at 3 O'clock… and Half
2003
as Doña Vicenta
A German bank buys a small Spanish entity and announces to its employees that it will pre-retire them on January 1st. The cashier Galindo proposes his...

El florido pensil
2002
as Doña Pepa
"El Florido Pensil" is a humorous reflection of the education of several generations of Spaniards from the 1940s to the 1960s. Based on the book of th...

Talk to Her
2002
as Concierge
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella
2001
as Reme
For this second film in the cult comedy series Torrente takes our fat police officer from Madrid to Marbella in Spain to investigate a villain’s plot ...

A Perfect Couple
1998
Forty-two-year-old Lorenzo finds himself out of work. Through an ad placed in the local newspaper, he gets a job as a helping hand for an aging homose...

Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law
1998
as Reme
A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant.

Mátame mucho
1998
as Josefa

On Earth as It Is in Heaven
1995
as Doña Asunción
Matacanes dies and goes to heaven just to discover that it was not as he expected, and everyone there is revolutionized lately. Peter explains that Go...

The Flower of My Secret
1995
as Madre de Leo
Leo is a middle-aged writer of popular romantic novels who writes under a pseudonym, since she despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works ...

Long Life Together
1995
as Sofia
Petra and Matthias are a bad marriage. He works as a janitor at the school of anatomy. Petra has a bitter and uncompromising character, so that their ...

Casque bleu
1994
as Alicia's Mother
Winegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another woman. By way of atonement, he takes his wife back to...

Everyone Off to Jail
1993
as Chus
A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers ...

Supernova
1993
as Avelina
Count Nado, is in love with Fénix, an intergalactic singer. Unable to achieve it with traditional methods, the evil Nado kidnaps the scientist Avelina...

Belle Époque
1992
as Doña Asun
In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has...

La mujer inesperada
1990
A man wakes up in a train to Malaga. A mysterious woman helps him get in time to his marriage, which is a few hours later.

I'm the One You're Looking For
1989
as Matilde
Natalia, a fashion model, is assaulted by a man one night, when she is returning from work. She decides to take revenge, and obsessively searches for ...

Going Down in Morocco
1989
as Doña Antonia
A girl who lives with her dealer cousin and her policeman boyfriend who is a policeman regularly transports drugs from Morocco for her cousin. As all ...

Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing
1989
as Álvarez
Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year.

La última cena... del 88
1988
as Self

Miss Caribe
1988
as Doña Petra
A woman's father dies in a Central American country and leaves her a bizarre inheritance: a ship which acts as a floating brothel under the appearance...

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988
as Jehovah's Witness Goalkeeper
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciousl...

Wait for Me in Heaven
1988
as Emilia
Pepe Soriano plays a Madrid shopkeeper who is kidnapped by henchmen of Franco in this political comedy. After his kidnapping, he is forced to become t...

Moors and Christians
1987
as Antonia
A peculiar family, which owns a nougat factory, decides to set out on a trip to Madrid in order to advertise its products in a Food Fair. Besides the ...

The Impeccable Sinner
1987
as Beni
Honorio Sigüenza is a man in his forties who has always lived under the yoke of his possessive mother. When his mother dies, he undergoes a radical tr...
Eulalia
1987
as Carmen

La vida alegre
1987
as Vecina
Ana starts working as a Doctor in the S.T.I.U. (sexual transmission illnesses unit) at a Hospital. She begins meeting a lot of strange and bizarre cha...

Year of Enlightment
1986
as Doña Tránsito
April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for chil...

Matador
1986
as Pilar
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.

Lulú de noche
1986
as Farmacéutica #2
German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While lookin...

The House of Ulloa
1985
Set in a crumbling Spanish mansion, this gloriously comic and gothic story follows the fortunes of an innocent young priest as he enters a world of mo...

Move Over, Mrs. Markham
1985
as Adela Mora
Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country...

The Chosen One
1985
as Florita
Federico is a cashier in a bank. He is bored with his life. But one day a body falls on his car. The suspected suicide victim is collected by a group ...
Tatuaje
1985
A short film starring Pedro Almodóvar and Marisa Paredes, parodying a 1940s torch song, the famous Spanish copla "Tatuaje".

El rollo de septiembre
1985
as Doña Aurelia
It is the disastrous grades at the end of the school year that make several students from different places gather at the school to spend the whole sum...

The Secret Garden
1984
as María
A few days ago, Lucia (Assumpta Serna) receives anonymous letters in which he is forced to perform certain actions that she accepts without question. ...

What Have I Done to Deserve This?
1984
as Abuela
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her heads...

Bajo en nicotina
1984
as Puri
A film buff can't watch his videos in peace as he is disturbed by his clingy girlfriend and noisy neighbours. He will take drastic measures to get the...

Epilogue
1984
as Flo-Flo
The film tells the story of two writers in love with the same woman. For years, they have worked together. One day they separate. Ten years later and ...

Dark Habits
1983
as Sor Rata de Callejón
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.

Total
1983
as Álvarez
"Total" opens the trilogy that close "Amanece que no es poco" and "Así en el Cielo como en la Tierra" Year 2598. Three days ago, the world has come to...

National III
1982
as Viti
In order to solve economic problems, "Leguineche" family decide to move to France with their limited belongings.

Cuentos para una escapada
1981
With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy a...

National Heritage
1981
as Viti
After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, where they have remained for decades in voluntary exil...

El erótico enmascarado
1980
as Doña Gertrudis
Manolo (Fernando Esteso) is a porn actor who no longer has any attraction towards women, having become "a decent man". But, of course, there is a horn...

The National Shotgun
1978
as Viti
A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix...

Nunca es tarde
1977
as Manoli
Antonio and Teresa are a couple who live in a flat in San Sebastian. Ursula Michelena, an elderly woman over 70 years old, lives on the top floor. Urs...

El bengador gusticiero y su pastelera madre
1977
as Rosalinda

El monosabio
1977
as Clara
Juanito, a peaceful fan of bullfighting, has become picador's assistant to see from the same arena the show in which he brags he is one of the protago...

And They Lived Happily Ever After
1976
as Aurora
Manoli and Fernando, a couple of communist ideas, want to live their love freely, fleeing from any bourgeois convention. At first, the couple rejects ...

Al fin solos, pero...
1976
as Chus (as María Jesús Lampreave)

The Love of Captain Brando
1974
as Mayor's Wife
During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old republican exile, returns to his home in a small Castilian village and befriends Auro...

My Dearest Senorita
1972
as Sobrina de Chus
A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-min...

La Lola... dicen que no vive sola
1970
A prostitute promises to the Virgin Mary not to practice her trade for a year if she heals her sick child.

Les Combinards
1966
as (scenes deleted)
Léo and Claude, two penniless friends turned con artists, answer matrimonial classified ads to trap women. But one of the friends soon finds his own g...

The Executioner
1963
as Visiting Woman of the Work
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after ...

La becerrada
1963
as Chus
San Ginés de la Sierra is a small village lost in the mountains in southern Spain. It is known throughout the region for two peculiar characteristics:...

The Wheelchair
1960
as Yolanda Proharán
Don Anselmo, a retired old man, decides to buy a motorized disabled stroller since all his pensioner friends own one. His family strongly refuses him ...

Streetcar for Sale
1959
as Marujita
This excellent short film written by the magnificent filmmaker duo of Luis García Berlanga and screenwriter Rafael Azcona was to be part of a series e...

The Little Apartment
1959
as Adelina - secretaria de Don Manuel (uncredited)
Rodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have a little apartment (or "pisito", in Spanish dialect). ...