President of the Spanish Film Academy from 2000 to 2003 and Goya Lifetime Achievement Award winner in 2018, he starred in The Flower of My Secret and The Skin I Live in for the Iberian director. She also appeared in Benigni’s La vita è bella, where she played Dora’s mother. He was 78 years old.
Marisa Paredesgreat Spanish actress and muse of Pedro AlmodovarAnd dead at the age of 78 at the Jiménez Díaz Foundation hospital in Madrid. This was announced with a short post on Goya award to your career. Between the 80s and 90s, he acted in several films for the director of La Mancha, including The indiscreet charm of sin, The flower of my secret e The skin I live in. Over 75 appearances in his career, including the one in Roberto Benigni’s masterpiece Life is beautifulwhere she played Dora’s mother. As reported The Countryin 2025 he was supposed to take part in Loaded with the Future by Lluís Pasqual mixing poetry, memories and cinema.
Marisa Paredes, the career of the actress and Almodóvar’s muse
Among the greatest exponents of Spanish acting in the 20th century, Marisa Paredes made her debut at just 14 years old with Tonight Nor by José Osuna and 091 Police Speaking by José María Forqué. Although he only got supporting roles over the next two decades, he was profitable career in the theater thanks to the collaboration with the director and screenwriter Víctor Vadorrey, who organized a meeting with the diva Conchita Montes. «I was lucky enough to play special characters», he would have explained to Cnn years later. «I did all the plays of Chekhov, Dostoevsky and Ibsen, the soul of drama in Russia». International success came with First work by Fernando Trueba in 1980, three years before meeting and inextricably linking his name to Pedro Almodovar. For the filmmaker, Golden Lion 2024 with The next roomhe starred in The indiscreet charm of sin of 1983 and Stiletto heels from 1991.
At Almodóvar’s court, Marisa Paredes appeared in the film The flower of my secretfor which he obtained the appointment of Goyain 1995. He shared the set with Penelope Cruz in All about my mother of 1999 and returned to acting for the director in Talk to her of 2002 and The skin I live in of 2011. In between there is room for The devil’s thorn by Guillermo del Toro (2001) and various works with Italian directors. Beyond Life is beautifulin fact, took part in The man she loves Of Maria Sole Tognazzi of 2008 and Latin Lover Of Cristina Comencini of 2015. Throughout his career, Paredes has received several international awards. National Cinematography Award in 1996 and Gold Medal of Merit for Fine Arts in 2007 in Spain, he triumphed in Taormina, Malaga and Valladolid. Leave it daughter Mariahad by her first husband Antonio Isasi Isasmendi.
