Marisa Paredes, a highly regarded Spanish actress who has worked with Pedro Almodovar in the following films: my secret flower, everything about my mother and the skin i live inalready dead. She is 78 years old.
Her death was announced on Tuesday by the Spanish Academy of Cinematic Arts and Sciences, which called her “one of the country’s most iconic actors…Her work was defined by strong, contradictory, broken, passionate, mysterious women, But most importantly, they are very human.
Almodóvar told Spanish public broadcaster RTVE, “It’s like I woke up from a nightmare… I’m trying to come to terms with Marisa’s death.” In their country, she is known as “Almodovar” girl”.
Paredes also played Roberto Bernini’s socialite mother-in-law in the film. life is beautiful (1997) and the director of an orphanage in Guillermo del Toro’s horror film Devil’s Backbone (2001), set during the Spanish Civil War.
She and Almodóvar first collaborated in dark habits (1983), in which she played Sister Manu, a murderer who uses LSD, and they reunited in the film High heel (1991), in which she played torch singer Betsy.
Paredes was nominated for a Goya Award for her performance as a woman who resists writing a romance novel. my secret flower (1995). She also played an actress in Almodovar’s everything about my mother (1999), Party Guest talk to her (2002) and Antonio Banderas as the mad scientist’s servant and mother the skin i live in (2011).
“The passing of one of the great women in show business, Marissa Paredes, is heartbreaking,” Banderas wrote on social media. “Dear friend, you left us too soon.”
Born in Madrid on April 3, 1946, Paredes grew up near the city’s famous Teatro España and starred in her first film at the age of 14. Fernando, Trueba’s breakthrough directorial debut, a comedy first movie (1980).
She was nominated for the first time for “Goya” beet face (1987).
Paredes served as director of the Spanish Academy of Cinema from 2000-03 and received the Goya Honor Award in 2018.
