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Marisa Paredes, Pedro Almodóvar Star, Dies at 78
Paredes turned in arguably her greatest performance in an Almodóvar milestone, ‘The Flower in My Secret.’
She appeared briefly in a Fernando Fernán Gómez masterpiece “El Mundo Sigue” (1965) but really cut her teeth performing in classic theatre, Chekhov, Dostoevsky and Ibsen televised by public broadcaster RTVE. She went on to act with Spain’s classic modern directors, beginning with Fernando Trueba in his 1980 debut “Opera Prima,” in a role which ribbed her air of grand dame, showing her sense of humor. Elected president of the Spanish Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, she endorsed at the 2003 Goya Awards on-stage protests by multiple winners at the support for the invasion of Irak given by José María Aznar’s right-of-center government.
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