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Voice actor Emma Cohen provided the voice of Caponata.

Character biography
A biography was developed for Caponata the hen as if she was an actual living character. According to this fictional biography, she was born in 1978 at the Malasaña neighborhood in Madrid

Developed by script writer Lola Salvador, she was one of the first hens to talk to humans and had the personality of a girl under 6 years old, curios about everything.

Perezgil the snail is portrayed as Caponata’s best friend —a fact reiterated by Caponata through the different sketches performed for the Spanish TV series Barrio Sésamo.

Career
Caponata has been featured on ‘’Barrio Sésamo’’. The first season of the Spanish co-production with CTW, the original company to produce/broadcast the Sesame Street children’ series in the USA.

‘’Barrio Sésamo’’
Caponata was one of the original main Muppet characters on ‘’[[Barrio Sésamo]’’. Caponata usually appeared at the show together with Perezgil, the snail. Caponata was always asking simple and not so simple things to Peregil, the snail, who was her friend and had an intellectual personality thanks to his love for reading books. They both sang many songs on the show. Every song they sang had a pedagogical "goal" to learn by the children of the neighborhood and the young audience.

Unlike the rest of the USA show's Muppets, Caponata was never any property of Sesame Workshop and has not been part of the USA show's merchandise.

Commercially the character belongs to RTVE, the Spanish Public TV for commercial and merchandising purposes after the designer Enrique Nicanor and the scriptwriter of the show Lola Salvador, original owners of the intellectual property reached an agreement granting their commercial rights to RTVE, the Station but  keeping the right to be publicly recognized as full authors, keeping their names and non commercial use of the characters as well as not allowing the use of the characters for carbonised beverages and unhealthy food for children.

Barrio Sésamo Characters
Caponata, Perezgil, Nisi, Angela, Braulio, Carmen, Manolo, Cuqui

In ‘’Barrio Sésamo’’ First Season television series, Caponata was the central character.

Caponata served as the mascot for Barrio Sésamo, First season.

Caponata also appeared in other shows of TVE as a character interviewed by other journalists and programme hosts.

Filmography
Caponata the hen has appeared in almost every Barrio Sésamo, First Season  production, as well as other appearances as a guest for other TV shows.

Below is a list of his more well-known appearances:

Category:Fictional characters introduced in 1979 Category:Fictional animals