The news of the death of Marisa Paredes at the age of 78 left all film and culture lovers frozen. Not long ago I reviewed her happiness at being a grandmother for the first time and now he leaves a daughter, your dear María Isasias a defender of her legacy as an immortal actress.
Marisa Paredes died this Tuesday, leaving behind more than 75 films, more than 80 television series and a good number of theatrical performances. Personally, she was a proud mothertwo men filled her heart and just three years ago she announced with deep emotion that began a new stage as a grandmother, lived with enormous joy.
He also spoke with both sentimentality and vindictive feeling for his daughter, María Isasi, born in September 1975 in a particularly significant context in the history of Spain. This is how the actress remembered it on Cadena Ser: «Franco was dying. I cried during that postpartum period thinking about how lucky I was that my daughter was not going to experience the dictatorship. Indeed, democracy arrived and we lived that wonderful thing that is freedom and recognition of rights».
And he added: «My granddaughter was born in the year 2021 and I thought that this creature, the way things are goingyou are going to experience something that I thought had ended: the dictatorship and the delay of rights that affect all human beings.
Her relationship with Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi
María Isasi is the result of the relationship that Marisa Paredes had with the film director Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi. They only lasted six years. Already separated from her husband, the actress rebuilt her life with Chema Pradowho was director of the Spanish Film Library, with whom he would spend the last years of his life.
Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi died in 2017 from pneumonia in Ibiza. As a result of that tragic news, María would begin a nasty legal battle for the distribution of the film director’s assets.
Beyond all these events, Marisa Paredes’ daughter would decide to follow in her mother’s footsteps in the world of acting and since she was little she has shown a special taste and love for culture.
Source of inspiration for María Isasi
Graduated in Fine artsMaría Isasi studied acting at the Juan Carlos Corazza Academy. He has acted in works such as ’30 Coins’, ‘The Lost Letters’, ‘Once Upon a Time in Euskadi’, ‘Historias de Alcafrán’, ‘Divinas Palabras’, ‘Hécuba’, ‘The Dream of Life’ or ‘Days Without Light’. ‘.
For María Isasi, her mother has always been her greatest source of inspiration both professionally and personally. He has never tired of expressing it, as for example he did in his acceptance speech after the actress received her long-awaited Goya of Honor. «It has taught me to walk on stage and, most importantly, through life.», he then said with deep emotion.
Three years ago, on the red carpet at the Goya Awards, Marisa Paredes excitedly said that her daughter was going to be a mother, which filled her with joy. «I’m going to be a grandmother, I’m alive and being reborn every day…I’m like I can’t. Every day I imagine it and I’m rehearsing with a Mariquita Pérez,” he would say then.
