Calle de Fernando Ossorio

Behind this name is an actor who made Madrid laugh in the middle of the nineteenth century. Fernando Ossorio Romero was born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda in 1830, the son of actors, and entered the trade as a child as a prompter in a Seville theatre, whispering the lines that others forgot. He soon stepped onto the stage and earned a place at the Teatro del Príncipe in Madrid, where he shone as leading comic actor alongside figures like Julián Romea and Teodora Lamadrid. He also wrote for the theatre: comedies, short farces and the zarzuela Walter, with music by Cristóbal Oudrid, premiered after his death. He died in Madrid in 1862, at thirty-two. First buried in the San Sebastián cemetery, in 1934 his remains were moved to the Pantheon of Illustrious Men of the Sacramental de San Justo. His native Sanlúcar also named a street for him.