The Spanish actress, discovered in Stiletto heelsleft at the age of 78, announced the Spanish Cinema Academy.
Spanish actress Marisa Paredes, whose career was notably marked by the six films she shot under the direction of Pedro Almodovar, has died at the age of 78, the Spanish Cinema Academy announced on Tuesday.
« 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 Academy of Spanish Cinema on X.
Muse of filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, Marisa Paredes, born in 1946 in Madrid, acquired worldwide fame with the film Stiletto heels. Unforgettable Becky, Victoria Abril's odious and capricious mother, the actress collects the roles of strong and obstinate women. Her angular face, her wavy blonde mane and her slender body make her embody characters that are both elegant and tortured, singular but always recognizable. Revealed by theater and television, she met her favorite filmmaker during the Movida era, at the beginning of the 1980s. After starting at the age of 14, Marisa Paredes' career took on a new dimension after her first collaboration in 1983 with director Pedro Almódovar, for the film Into the darkness.
Marisa Paredes has filmed with directors from different countries. Israeli Amos Gitaï thus enriched his career (Golem, the spirit of exile' 1992), the Frenchman Philippe Lioret (Fallen from the sky 1994), the Chilean Raoul Ruiz (Three lives and one death 1996), the Italian Roberto Benigni (Life is beautiful1998). She was rewarded, among other things, with an honorary Goya in 2018, the Spanish equivalent of the Césars ceremony.
