Encarna Abad
Encarna Abad (born 1927) is a Spanish actress. Biography. She developed her professional career almost entirely in the theater, mostly in supporting roles in comedy billing. Her stage career began in the 1930s when she was still a child, one forming in the School of Actors Perez de Leon and tablet. Abad debuted professionally after the Spanish Civil War in the field of musical theater. She integrated into the company of , participating in comic roles in "" (1943), Pablo Luna and magazines "" (1944), "" (1947), with , "The bear and the strawberry tree" (1949) and "Woman SM" (1951), the last three  of . Late in the 1950s, she continued her career as a comic vedette with pieces like "Day and Night in Madrid" (1952) "Sandy Torre" (1956) and "Lulu Mink" (1959), with , but also made inroads into the genre of farce: "Beware the Paca" (1951) and "the boy sprouts" (1951), both of Jose de Lucio. In the early 60s, she changed her stage name to Encarnita by Encarna and finally abandoned the genre fully focusing her career in comedy, for which she was especially gifted. She can thus be cited in "February 30" (1963), of , "The Governor" (1964), with and and "A  serene under the bed" (1970), with . In 1972, she traveled with the Tirso de Molina actors company to the German Federal Republic to represent Spanish emigrants in the work of "". On her return, she continued to expand her repertoire with tens of thousands of works under the direction of , among which may be mentioned ""(1973) by Jean Anouilh, "" (1977), Pedro Muñoz Seca, "" (1979 ) of , "A night at home ... Lady" (1979) of Jean de Létraz, "" (1982), Miguel Mihura, "" (1985), of Jardiel, "" (1990) of Guillem de Castro, "and the tyrant Judit" (1992), Pedro Salinas, (1992), by Jacinto Benavente, "" (1993) of , "" (1993), de  Zorrilla, "" (1994), by Alejandro Casona and "Picospardo's" (1995) of Javier García Maurino directed by , the last three mentioned in the . She was also a regular face on television since the mid-1960s, participating in several televised theater spaces such as "" . She retired in the late 1990s.