[3] Teresa Cunillé was born into a family of weavers from Sabadell where her father and mother were great theater and zarzuela lovers.

Teresa grew up in this environment and soon began to act alongside her father in zarzuelas such as Los claveles, La Dolorosa, La del manojo de Rosas or El rey que rabió, where father and daughter achieved great success as a couple comic, she, however, was more and more attracted to the Catalan plays that they also performed from Sunday to Sunday.

[5] Throughout her career he also worked in film, television and dubbing, highlighting films such as La respuesta (I bury myself in the foundations) by Josep M ª Forn (1968), Si te dicen que caí by Vicente Aranda (1989), La punyalada by Jordi Grau (1989) and Havanera 1820 by Antoni Verdaguer (1992); the miniseries Maresme shot by Rosa Vergés (2002) and the TV3 series Nissaga de Poder (1996).

[6] Cunillé married Domènec Vilarrasa,[7] and went to study at the Barcelona Theater Institute where she graduated in 1947 with the Enric Jimènez Extraordinary Prize.

The Teresa Cunillé Award was created in 2018 by the joint initiative of the actress and the Romea Theater Owners who hold it biannually.