Spanish actress Marisa Paredes dies at 78 years old

Spanish actress Marisa Paredes, whose artistic career was distinguished by the six films she filmed under the direction of Pedro Almodovar, has died at the age of 78, the Spanish Film Academy reported on Tuesday.
Paredes, born in 1946 in Madrid, headed the Spanish Film Academy between 2000 and 2003. She achieved international success thanks to her roles in many films, the most important of which were those directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

A busy artistic career

The Spanish Film Academy indicated, in a post on the “X” platform, that “Spanish cinema lost one of its most important actresses, Marisa Paredes, who had a career that made the audience watch her in more than 75 cinematic works.”
Paredes’ acting career began when she was 14, before taking on a new dimension after her first collaboration in 1983 with director Pedro Almodóvar in the film “Dark Habits.”
Almodovar and Paredes then collaborated in “All About My Mother,” “The Flower of My Secret,” “High Hills,” and “La Belle Quiabito,” which dates back to 2011 and was their last collaboration.
Marisa Paredes received an honorary Goya Award in 2018, and has appeared in international productions such as “Life is Beautiful” by the Italian Roberto Benigni, and “The Devils Backbone” by the Mexican Guillermo del Toro.