Henar Álvarez

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Álvarez and the second or maternal family name is Díaz.
Henar Álvarez
Henar Álvarez in 2023
Born
Henar Álvarez Díaz

(1984-09-15) 15 September 1984 (age 40)[1]
Madrid, Spain
Occupation(s)Journalist and scriptwriter

Henar Álvarez Díaz (Madrid, Spain; September 15, 1984) is a Spanish scriptwriter and comedian who co-hosts the Cadena SER radio show Buenismo bien. She was a scriptwriter and collaborator on the Movistar+ platform's #0, Las que faltaban.[2][3]

Trajectory

She studied Audiovisual Communication at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, where she graduated in 2007. She completed a Master's Degree in Integral Communication at the University of Alcalá, which she finished in 2009.

In 2013, she became the presenter of the program Días de cine broadcast by La 2 of Televisión Española,[4][5] after the departure of actress Cayetana Guillén Cuervo in 2011 and without having been replaced in those years.[6][7] However, at the end of the 2014 broadcast season, Álvarez was replaced by journalist Elena Sánchez.[8]

In 2014, Álvarez and her team of bloggers won the X Bitácoras Awards for the best film and television blog,[9] La culpa es del script.[10][11][12] Since 2003, RTVE and other groups like La Casa Encendida, ADman Media, ALSA, ESET, Repsol, HotelsCombined, interQué, Strato and AgoraNews, have given this award to the best Hispanic bloggers in different categories every year.[13]

In the summer of 2018, Álvarez co-directed and presented the feminist program Tramas maestras on Cadena SER with film director Leticia Dolera and humorist Pilar de Francisco, which examined the figure of women as objects of desire in the film industry.[14] This PRISA program offered listeners a space in which to learn about the influence of films and series on social narrative from a humorous and gender perspective.[15][16] The first program, which could be listened to and also watched via streaming on Friday, June 8, 2018, went viral and achieved in a few hours more than 20,000 views on YouTube.[17]

She has been a contributor to the Cadena SER radio program Buenismo Bien, hosted by actor Manuel Burque and journalist Quique Peinado [es], since June 2018, and was a scriptwriter for Las que faltaban, which aired on Movistar+'s #0 until December 2019. She was also a scriptwriter for Hoy por hoy until March 2019 and Likes, where she conducted the section FeminaCine, where she analyzed the stereotypes of women in the history of cinema.[18] She also collaborated until March 2019 as a columnist for the newspaper El Confidencial,[19] where she also had the feminist blog Con dos ovarios for her style section, Vanitatis.[20]

In March 2019, she debuted as a monologuist in the program Late motiv, hosted by Andreu Buenafuente, for which she received much praise from people like Bob Pop, Quique Peinado, or Leticia Dolera,[21] and whose video went viral, making Álvarez one of the most visible voices of female humor in Spain.[22] In August of that same year, she starred in a spot for the Swedish furniture company IKEA together with Óscar Broc, also a Twitter user, in which they both made spoilers for some of the most striking pages of the catalog that had just been launched.[23]

In 2020, Álvarez publicó published, together with illustrator Ana Müshell, a graphic novel titled La mala leche, which addresses motherhood and sexuality from a feminist perspective.[24] On November 17, the same day the book went on sale, Secuoya Studios announced that it had acquired the rights to the comic to make it into a series of half-hour episodes.[25][26]

In 2024 she will host Al cielo con ella, an entertainment TV program similar to a late show, alongside Victoria Martín and Mister Jägger.[27]

Work

  • 2020 – La mala leche. Together with the illustrator Ana Müshell. ISBN 9788408234562.

References

  1. ^ "Henar Álvarez". Lecturalia (in Spanish).
  2. ^ "Las que faltaban - Movistar+". Movistar Plus (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2023-11-15. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
  3. ^ "'Las que faltaban' vuelven el 6 de octubre con altas, bajas y cambio de día". El Diario (in Spanish). 24 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Henar Álvarez: «A los 16 años veía 'Días de cine' tomando notas»". El Periódico (in Spanish). 2 July 2014.
  5. ^ "Henar Álvarez, el nuevo rostro de «Días de cine»". ABC (in Spanish). 18 September 2013.
  6. ^ "'Días de cine' cumple este jueves 1.000 programas en TVE". Europa Press (in Spanish). 4 June 2014.
  7. ^ "Días de cine: dos décadas con un reparto de lujo". RTVE (in Spanish). 18 September 2014.
  8. ^ "'Días de cine' vuelve con nuevos aires". El País (in Spanish). 16 September 2014.
  9. ^ "El Rubius y el Twitter de la Policía triunfan en los premios Bitácora". EuropaPress (in Spanish). 22 November 2014.
  10. ^ "La culpa es del script, Mejor Blog de Cine y TV 2014. Entrega Dani Seseña", YouTube (in Spanish)
  11. ^ "Ganadores de los Premios Bitácoras 2014". RTVE (in Spanish). 21 November 2014.
  12. ^ "Fallados los Premios Bitácoras 2014". Microsiervos (in Spanish).
  13. ^ "Premios Bitacoras.com 2015". RTVE (in Spanish). 29 August 2012.
  14. ^ "Tramas maestras, con Leticia Dolera". Cadena SER (in Spanish).
  15. ^ "El feminismo desembarca en la Cadena SER de la mano de Leticia Dolera y María Guerra". PR Noticias (in Spanish). 12 June 2018.
  16. ^ "8 podcasts feministas llenos de humor y activismo". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 25 June 2018.
  17. ^ "Tramas Maestras", YouTube (in Spanish)
  18. ^ "FeminaCine". Henar Álvarez (in Spanish). 18 December 2017. Archived from the original on 22 October 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  19. ^ "Henar Álvarez. No hay nada más femenino que acudir a la huelga del 8-M". El Confidencial (in Spanish).
  20. ^ "Henar Álvarez. No hay nada más femenino que acudir a la huelga del 8-M". El Confidencial (in Spanish).
  21. ^ "El aplaudido estreno de Henar Álvarez como monologuista en 'Late Motiv': "Ser la puta de la clase es liberador"". ElDiario (in Spanish). 26 March 2019.
  22. ^ "Entrevista a Henar Álvarez: "Dejar a un trol es como dejar a una pareja"". El País (in Spanish). 8 August 2019.
  23. ^ "España, entre los cinco países que han inspirado el nuevo catálogo de IKEA". 20Minutos (in Spanish). 29 August 2019.
  24. ^ "La cómica Henar Álvarez aborda sin pudor el deseo femenino en "La mala leche"". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 18 November 2020.
  25. ^ "'La mala leche' de Henar Álvarez explorará los dramas de la vida moderna en la pequeña pantalla". El Diario (in Spanish). 21 November 2020. Archived from the original on 1 December 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  26. ^ "El cómic de Henar Álvarez 'La mala leche' se convertirá en serie". Fuera de Series (in Spanish). 17 November 2020.
  27. ^ "RTVE detalla el nuevo programa de Henar Álvarez, con Victoria Martín y Mister Jägger entre sus colaboradores". vertele! (in Spanish). 11 November 2024. Retrieved 12 November 2024.