Madrid, Dec 17 (EFE).- Marisa Paredes shone in Pedro Almodóvar films such as the Oscar-winning ‘All About My Mother’ (1999), but her more than six decades of film and television began when she participated in ‘091 at the age of 14: Police Speaking’ (1960), by José María Forqué and include international films such as ‘Life is Beautiful’ (1997) by Roberto Begnini.
More than seventy films, eighty television fictions and fifteen plays give an idea of the career of this ‘Almodóvar girl’ who uttered phrases that have gone down in the history of Spanish cinema, such as the one she addressed to Imanol Arias dressed as a military man: ” “Is there any possibility, no matter how small… of saving what is ours?” (‘The flower of my secret’, 1995).
The most universal director from La Mancha also gave him mythical roles in ‘Tacones Lejanos’ (1991), and appeared in ‘The Skin I Habit’ (2011), while he gave him the habit of ‘Sor Manure’ in ‘Entre tinieblas’ (1983). ).
Paredes’s first performances occurred in the sixties, in films such as ‘Canción de cradle’ (1961), by José María Elorrieta, in which he also acted as a teenager, or the very notable ‘The world continues’ (1965), by Fernando Fernán Gómez. At the end of that decade, in 1967, he appeared in an episode of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s ‘Stories to Not Sleep’ horror stories on television.
Already in the seventies he lavished a lot on the small screen in the theatrical series that became so popular in black and white, with roles in ‘Mystery Theater’, ‘Spanish Lyrical Theatre’, ‘Teatro de siempre’, ‘Teatro Brief’, ‘Theater Night’, ‘Teatro Estudio’…as well as episodes in ‘Pequeño Estudio’ and ‘Historias de Juan Español’.
In the eighties he continued to combine television (as in ‘Estudio 1’) and cinema (‘Opera debut’, 1980, Fernando Trueba; ‘Bicycles are for summer’, 1984, by Jaime Chávarri, or the aforementioned ‘ Between darkness’).
From the nineties onwards he combined his collaborations with Almodóvar with television (for example ‘The Girls of Today’) and other directors he already knew such as Jaime Chávarri, of whom he starred in ‘Tierno Verano de Lujurias y Rotas’ in 1993 alongside Gabino Diego and Imanol Arias.
In 2001 he worked on ‘El espinazo del diablo’, by Guillermo del Toro and in 2018 in ‘Petra’, by Jaime Rosales. In theater he acted in works such as ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ (1984) and ‘The Maids’, by Jean Genet, in 1983. EFE
