Luis Fernando Romo

Updated Saturday, March 23, 2024-15:05

  • Culture Silvia Tortosa, muse of the uncovering and symbol of the Transition, dies

He never renounced

his humble origins.

Silvia Tortosa,

who died of cancer on March 23, was the only daughter of a taxi driver and a housewife who felt the call to acting as a teenager. That decision was not liked at home because those closest to him thought that dedicating himself to the show was a bad thing... But he took the world by storm, never better said, since the bullfighting businessman Pedro Balañá gave him his first cinematographic opportunity with

The Last Saturday

(1966).

Since then, her career has been on the rise until

she became one of the most desired women in the country

at the time of transition along with Bárbara Rey (74), María José Cantudo (72) and Nadiuska (72). In many interviews she said that she married Hermann Bonnín at the age of 19, a theater director 11 years older who founded the Brossa Espai Escènic. However, in her memoir 'My Hidden Life. A total interior nude 'explained that her first husband was a certain Alfredo, of German descent, from whom she separated after a few months because they had not consummated. Perhaps she could have been the alter ego of the theater director.

While filming the novel Oblomov (1974) she met

Rafael Arcos

, one of the best-known actors of the time "whose alcoholism meant that what we had was not possible and that he ran away," the Catalan interpreter would confess much later. Then a young singer named

José Umbral

and the composer Felipe Campuzano arrived, with whom

he had a great time on the beaches of Mallorca

according to what was published in the magazines of the time.

The Air Bridge, Iberia's most profitable line that connects Madrid-Barcelona, ​​became a kind of cupid because on one of those trips she met

Charles Davis,

a handsome North American whom she would marry in the Presbyterian rite on May 26. 1985 in Pennsylvania on the family farm. Silvia was overjoyed because it seemed like she had found the love of her life, but in the same way that fate put him in her path, it also took him away from her, since on September 27 of that same year she died due to metabolic cardiomyopathy and a pulmonary edema in Barcelona.

In October 1987 she said

"I do" for the third time

with David Harper, another American whom she met because he was a close friend of Charles and his parents. Due to Silvia's professional commitments, who had become one of the most popular faces in our country thanks to Aplauso (1978-1983),

for a time they corresponded and called each other on the phone

. During much of that marriage, the interpreter resided in the American state of Maryland where her husband owned several restaurants. In 2003 they divorced.

The fourth marriage for the interpreter of

Asignatura pending

(1977) came in 2007 with

the theater producer Carlos Cánovas

, 23 years younger than her, whom she described to Europa Press as "a very intelligent man with extraordinary technical ability at the level of sound, image and editing". He was the architect of Tortosa's success with her cooking channel on YouTube in 2011. For a long time the actress was very attentive to her mother-in-law, who lived with them in her Madrid chalet. It is said that Silvia and Carlos had separated, but at the time of going to press this information could not be verified. The actress

has not had children

.