Marisa Paredes leaves behind her daughter, actress María Isasi, and her three-year-old granddaughter Thelma.

The world of cinema is completely in mourning. Early in the morning the Film Academy confirmed the death of actress Marisa Paredes at the age of 78. Nothing predicted such a sad outcome for the one who was president of the Academy and awarded the Goya of Honor in 2018. Her only daughter, also an actress Maria Isasi, finished his work Bohemian lights at the Spanish Theater in Madrid just a few hours before the actress felt unwell. “Today is the penultimate performance (it is always said penultimate when it is a beloved theater), but on this occasion more so because we will return, like birds that migrate and go completely around the sun, like bears that hibernate to wake up wiser, like everything authentic, that lasts forever. We will return on January 26. Long live the theater! And long live its good-hearted crew!” were the words of María Isasi. just a few hours before learning of the death of his mother, Marisa Paredes.

Spanish cinema says goodbye to one of its most iconic actresses, who worked with some of the best directors in our country such as Pedro Almódovar and Agustí de Villaronga. The remembered interpreter of The flower of my secret leaves a legacy in your daughter, actress María Isasiborn from her relationship with the director and filmmaker Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, and his granddaughter, Thelma, who turned three last May. Although she always wanted to keep her private life in the strictest privacy, Marisa Paredes rebuilt her love life with the photographer and former director of the Spanish Film Library. José María Pradowith whom he lived his last stage.

Marisa Paredes had a relationship with Isasi-Isamendi in the 70s, but they never crossed the altar. As a result of their relationship, their only daughter was born in 1975, who followed in her parents' footsteps and has participated in films such as Lovers of the polar circle and The Thirteen Roses, series as well known as Loving in troubled timesand on December 15 he left the stage after performing the last performance of the play Bohemian lights at the Spanish Theater in Madrid.

María Isasi inherited her passion for acting from her mother. “Besides my mother, he is my idol,” She said about Marisa Paredes, to whom she was always very close. They worked together for the first time in Wildthe debut feature of director Carlos Molinero and in 2018 she was in charge of presenting the Goya of Honor to her mother. María Isasi had a daughter on May 18, 2021, who brought back the joy and excitement of Marisa Paredes. “Oh, she's a gem. Well, she's a real artist. She's totally graceful,” said her granddaughter's happy grandmother. “I was in a bad moment and My granddaughter revived me. It's the greatest thing,” said the interpreter of Far heels.

In recent times, mother and daughter came together in a legal battle over the inheritance of director Antonio Isasi-Isamendi, who died in 2017. The film director died of pneumonia and the distribution of the inheritance caused a legal dispute between his children, María Isasi and her two brothers-born from the filmmaker's previous relationship-, for the property that the director acquired in the Salinas de Ibiza which, according to the will left by the filmmaker, was to be distributed equally among his three children.