Marisa Paredes has died, one of the most recognizable faces of cinema and theater in Spain, National Cinematography Award in 1996, Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts in 2007 and Goya of Honor in 2018, among other awards. She died at the age of 78 in Madrid, due to a heart problem, after going to the hospital because she felt unwell.
Paredes, who planned to return to the stage in the coming months, began his life in a goal in Madrid’s Plaza de Santa Ana and ended up in the great halls of world cinematography. Earlier this year, the actress was speaking with journalist Tom C. Avendaño in an interview for ICON in his house in Madrid, where the photos and memories took him back to a precarious childhood.
The goal where her mother worked, the toilet bowl that was in the kitchen at home, the Daughters of Charity school on Mesón de Paredes Street where she, who was poor, entered through a different door. “The class difference was very clear,” said the actress during the interview. “One day I asked my mother why we were poor. He told me: ‘This is inherited, daughter, just like the other thing.’ Being rich is inherited, and so is being poor. That, I have it here [se señala la cabeza]”, he explained.
The actress fulfilled her dream and managed to make a place for herself in that world, that of actors, whom as a child she saw entering the Spanish Theater, where she also wanted to be. “Because there, I remember this reflection very well, other things happen. My life and all this misery that we are living, all this greyness… that doesn’t happen there,” the artist recalled to Icon. The burning chapel at the Spanish Theater will open to the public for two hours this Wednesday, from 10:00 to 12:00.
Read the full interview with Marisa Paredes here in ICON: “Being rich is inherited, and so is being poor. “That has marked my life.”
