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She was one of the favorite actresses of Spanish director Pedro Almódovar. Spanish actress Marisa Paredes has died at age 78. She had appeared in a multitude of Pedro Almódovar films.
Spanish cinema is in mourning. Spanish actress Marisa Paredes has died at the age of 78, the Spanish Cinema Academy announced this Tuesday morning. “Spanish cinema loses one of its most emblematic actresses, Marisa Paredes, who leaves behind a long career during which the public was able to see her more than 75 times on the big screen,” declared the Cinema Academy Spanish on X.
AFP
Marisa Paredes' career took on a new dimension after her first collaboration in 1983 with director Pedro Almódovar, for the film “In the Darkness”. They will then work together for “Heels”, “The flower of my secret”, “All about my mother”, “Parle avec elle” and “La piel que habito”, in 2011, their last collaboration. Six successful films in total.
Rewarded among others with an honorary Goya in 2018, during the Spanish equivalent of the Césars ceremony, Marisa Paredes has also appeared in international productions such as “Life is beautiful”, by the Italian Roberto Benigni, or ” The Devil's Back”, by Mexican Guillermo del Toro.
Born in Madrid in 1946, she began acting at the age of 14. Marisa Paredes chaired the Spanish Cinema Academy between 2000 and 2003.
