The legendary Spanish actress Marisa Paredes died in Madrid from heart failure at the age of 78.
Her career began at the age of 14, and over the course of her life, she appeared in more than 75 films, including works by Pedro Almodóvar: Dark Habits (1983), High Heels (1991), The Flower of My Secret (1995), All About My Mother (1999), and The Skin I Live In (2011). For her collaboration with Almodóvar, the actress earned the nickname “Almodóvar’s girl.”
Marisa Paredes was born in 1946 in a working-class district of Madrid, at a time when the country was recovering from the Civil War and under the dictatorship of General Franco. She started with classical theater, performing works by Chekhov and Ibsen, and also appeared in films such as The World Goes On (1965) by Fernando Fernán Gómez, Fernando Trueba’s debut Opera Prima (1980), In a Glass Cage (1986) by Agustí Villaronga, Life Is Beautiful (1997) by Roberto Benigni and The Devil’s Backbone (2001) by Guillermo del Toro.
