Manuel Prieto Comesaña (born 2 August 1953), known artistically as Manuel Manquiña, is a Spanish actor from Galicia.

Manuel Manquiña
Manquiña in 2013
Born
Manuel Prieto Comesaña

(1953-08-02) August 2, 1953 (age 71)
Vigo, Spain
OccupationActor

Biography

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Manuel Prieto Comesaña was born on 2 August 1953 in Vigo.[1][2] He began his career in 1982 in several television comedy shows by Galician public broadcaster TVG and several movies directed by Galician filmmakers like Antonio Blanco in La matanza caníbal de los garrulos lisérgicos and Xavier Valverde's Tacón and Continental. In 1997 received acknowledgment after acting in Juanma Bajo Ulloa's Airbag and Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley. Other films and TV series are Héroes and Historias de Bolsillo written by himself and Moncloa ¿dígame?, Manolito Gafotas (based on Elvira Lindo's child books) with others and Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas as Messenger.

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  1. ^ "Manquiña presenta en el Auditorio de Cangas sus "Monólogos irreverentes"". Faro de Vigo. Prensa Ibérica. 19 October 2012.
  2. ^ Abelenda, Ana (4 September 2020). "Manquiña: «Fernando Simón me recuerda alguna frase de 'Airbag'»". La Voz de Galicia. Grupo Vocento.
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