Curiosidades

Winner in 1969 the title of European Lady.

She begins as a model for TV and cinema spots. She debuts in cinema in 1965, working not only in Spain, but in France and Italy as well.

Had her voice dubbed by Spanish dubber Mari Ángeles Herranz in 13 different movies.

Last name is pronounced him-pear-a.

She became one of the muses of the so-called Barcelona School , a cinematographic movement that emerged as a response to the more commercial Spanish cinema, with directors such as Gonzalo Suárez , Vicente Aranda and Jorge Grau .

Having withdrawn from the world of acting since the late 1970s, she founded in 1985 a modelling school in Barcelona. The school and agency "Gimpera Models" is now run by her son Job Sarsanedas.

In 1990, she married U.S. actor Craig Hill; he had moved to Barcelona, Spain where he had found work in Spaghetti Westerns.

Teresa Gimpera was a Spanish film and television actress, businesswoman and model of the 1960s and 1970.

Her first job was with Leopoldo Pomés as an advertisement model.

She was discovered by photographer Oriol Maspons , who introduced her to Germán Puig -then an advertising executive- who made her appear in a film for the first time in a commercial for the cleaning product Vim. At that time, Antoni Von Kirchner christened her the "Vim" girl .

Without a doubt, the hardest blow of his life was the death of his youngest son, Joan, a victim of AIDS. Teresa Gimpera's son died at the age of 28 in the detoxification clinic where he was being treated for his addictions.

In addition to her success in film, actress Teresa Gimpera also set up a modelling agency, Gimpera Models, and was crowned Lady Spain in 1969 and later Lady Europe.

One of the greatest roles of his career was in 'The Spirit of the Beehive', by Víctor Erice.

Considered the muse of Barcelona's gauche divine , Teresa Gimpera and a partner set up the famous Bocaccio nightclub in Barcelona. It was a breath of fresh air in Franco's Spain. She herself was the image of the famous posters,.

The Catalan actress retired from acting in 2017 at the age of 80, with the comedy 'Los del túnel', in which she shared the bill with Arturo Valls, Natalia de Molina or Neus Asensi (who has recently reconciled with Santiago Segura). But her resume includes great films of our cinema such as 'Asignatura recuperado' by José Luis Garci or 'La guerra de papá', by Antonio Mercero.

She rose to stardom as a model for advertising and became one of the most famous actresses in our country, although she soon grew tired of the world of stripping and took her acting profession more seriously. "I didn't want to show my ass anymore," Gimpera herself said about that time.

Teresa spent in the seventies a few years living without conservative home conditions. She met with a group of film directors, actors, writers, painters, architects, creative people and other people in the arts, including Oriol Regás, who was her bohemian lover and with whom she set up "Bocaccio", the discotheque where "the divine gauche" met, where its members experienced freedom without restrictions.

In 2021, when she was immersed in her memoirs, she recognized that she had a special friend who frequently visited her at the nursing home, a bookbinder by profession.

She was the only actress from the Barcelona School who had a solid film career.

Teresa Gimpera tried to cope with the greatest drama of her life: her son Joan was a drug addict and, for 11 years, the actress tried to help him. Finally, her youngest son died at the age of 28 in the detoxification clinic where he was hospitalized after having contracted AIDS.