Veteran Spanish film and theater actress
Marisa de Leza
, awarded the
San Sebastián Silver Shell
in 1954
, has died in Madrid at the age of 87 due to "a long degenerative disease," as reported to Efe. artist's family.
María Luisa González Benés
(Madrid, 1933), who died on Tuesday, had a long professional career that began in the cinema at the age of 14 with the film 'La manigua sin Dios' (1949), directed by Arturo Ruiz Castillo.
He obtained some of his best reviews in 1951 with his starring role in 'Surcos', a film by
José Antonio Nieves Conde
that earned him the highest recognition as a performer at the second edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival, the aforementioned Silver Shell.
De Leza shot under the orders of the most important directors of the time and with actors like
Anthony Quinn
in '1919, Crónica del Alba' (1983);
Alberto Sordi
, in 'Me permette Babbo!'
(1956) or
Richard Burton
, in 'Alexander the Great' (1956).
Especially long and fruitful was her career as a theater actress, a field in which she performed librettos by classical authors such as
Shakespeare
('Julio César' and 'Enrique IV'),
Calderón de la Barca
('King Baltasar's dinner', 'El doctor of his honor ') or
Lope de Vega
(' Los locos de Valencia ') and others more current, such as
Henrik Ibsen
("Borkman"),
Miguel de Unamuno
(' Fedra ') or
Bueno Vallejo
(' The words in the sand ',' The double story of Dr. Valmy ').
Married in 1957 to soccer player
Mario Durán
and mother of three children, she also participated on television, specifically in several installments of 'Estudio Uno' and had a prominent role in the series 'La barraca', along with
Victoria Abril
and
Álvaro de Luna
, also in the public chain.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
Know more
Valencia
Madrid
theater
Anniversary 85 years of Julie Andrews, the great lady of cinema who lost her angelic voice after suing doctors for 25 million
Actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Spike Lee's fetish, is shot dead
Politics The port of Alicante will receive an investment 25 times less than that of Valencia in the period 2020-2024
See links of interest
Last News
English translator
TV programming
Quixote
Movies TV
Topics
Stage 11: Porto Sant'Elpidio-Rimini, live
Real Madrid - Khimki Moscow