Jabarkan Kejayaan dari Verónica Forqué

Her career took a leap forward with her breakout performance as Cristal, “a toothy heart-of-gold hooker” in Pedro Almodóvar's 1984 film, What Have I Done to Deserve This? She landed her first major television role in the 1985 sitcom Platos rotos, earning a Fotogramas de Plata in 1986 for her performance as Loli. She won her first Goya Award with a supporting role in Fernando Trueba's 1986 film Year of Enlightment.

In 1988, she won the Goya Awards for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, for her roles in La vida alegre and Moros y cristianos, respectively. She and Emma Suárez are the only two to have won two Goyas in the same year. Of Forqué's performance as a doctor treating sexually transmitted diseases in La vida alegre, Paula Corroto wrote in El Confidencial, Forqué’s "smile (and laughter) were forever in the hearts of everyone who saw this film. A comedian from head to toe.”

Forqué played the lead in Almodóvar's Kika (1993). A review by Stanley Kauffmann in The New Republic said her part in the film was "a better role than her American debut in Jimmy Hollywood, but it doesn't make the most of this spirited comedienne." Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, found Forqué’s performance “spirited and appealing, never in danger of being overpowered by [her] surroundings."

She starred in television series such as Pepa y Pepe (1995) and La vida de Rita (2003). The former series, loosely inspired by Roseanne and earning audience ratings breaking seven million viewers mark and 40% share, earned Forqué a great deal of popularity in Spain.