The Spanish actress Marisa Paredes died this Tuesday December 17, in Madrid, Spain, because of a heart accident at 78 years oldaccording to sources from the Film Academyan institution that she presided over at the beginning of the century, from 2000 to 2005, and which recognized her, in 2018, with the Goya of Honor.
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“Spanish cinema is left without one of its most iconic actresses. Marisa Paredes (Madrid, 1946) has died at the age of 78, leaving behind a long career in which the public has been able to see her on more than 75 occasions on the big screen,” said the European country’s film institution.
Spanish cinema is left without one of its most iconic actresses, Marisa Paredes, who leaves behind a long career in which the public has been able to see her on more than 75 occasions on the big screen. pic.twitter.com/sAFty5B08C
— Academy of Dinner (@Academiadecine) December 17, 2024
Regarding the roles she played throughout her long career, the Film Academy noted that they were always “strong, ambivalent, torn, passionate, enigmatic and ultimately very human women.”
Although if legacy is composed for dozens of feature films and television series, The woman from Madrid is remembered as a Almodóvar Girlsince his work with the filmmaker from La Mancha Pedro Almodovar It became the internationalization of her profession as an actress.
With it, he gave life to the memorable Becky del Páramo in Far Heelsto Amanda Gris in La flor de mi secreto, for which she received a first Goya nomination, she appeared in Todo sobre mi madre, Hable con ella, The skin she inhabited and her debut with the iconic filmmaker, Entre tinieblas.
To honor his memory, tomorrow, Wednesday the 18th, “the burning chapel will be installed in the Main Hall of the Spanish Theater, where friends, colleagues and the public will be able to pay a heartfelt tribute from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.,” he indicated. the institution.
The burning chapel of Marisa Paredes will be installed tomorrow, Wednesday the 18th from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the @TeatroEspanol pic.twitter.com/dzbTHyERkP
— Academy of Dinner (@Academiadecine) December 17, 2024
Who was Marisa Paredes?
He began his training in Madrid School of Dramatic Art at an early age. He gave life to his first character in This Night Neither Jose Osuna and just afterwards 091 Police speaking about José María Forqué, at 14 years old.
Although he acted in various films during the 1960s and 1970s, it was in Fernando Trueba that his consolidation came, added, of course, to his collaboration with Agustí Villaronga in Behind the Glass, since the filmmaker was known for being a strong source of inspiration for the actress.
After starring in the aforementioned films with the director of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Paredes was part of the casts of films such as Life is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni, Deep Crimson by Mexican filmmaker Arturo Ripstein and The Devil’s Backbone by Guillermo del Toro.
Finally, in recent times, in addition to participating in the Collective Memory of Spanish Cinema project, where he declared that: “Freedom, education and culture are fundamental for people’s lives. It’s what remains. Art is what remains”, will leave pending his presence at the premiere of Emergency Exit by Lluis Miñarro, a film that, it seems, is the last one in which he participated.
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