Inda Ledesma

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Inda Ledesma
Born
Margarita Rodríguez

March 29, 1926
DiedJanuary 26, 2010
NationalityArgentine
Occupationactor

Inda Ledesma (born Margarita Rodríguez; March 29, 1926 – January 26, 2010) was an Argentine stage, television, and cinema actress who also gained prominence as a theatre director and instructor.

Life and work

Inda Ledesma was born in the Argentine town of

L'Avare. The following year, she was given her first role in the cinema of Argentina, in Pierre Chenal's El viaje sin regreso (Journey of No Return), by then she was known by her pseudonym, Inda Ledesma.[1]

Ledesma continued to appear in the film, though in subsequent years she became prominent in the

She starred with director

Mrs. Patrick Campbell in a long-running production of Jerome Kilty's Dear Liar (with Ernesto Bianco as George Bernard Shaw).[2]

Her prolific work as an actress and director twice earned her a Konex Award, the highest in the Argentine cultural realm, in 1981 and 1991.[3] She continued to appear in film, including roles in Eduardo Mignogna's biopic, Flop (1990), and as Leonor Acevedo de Borges (writer Jorge Luis Borges's mother) in Un amor de Borges (2000).[1]

Having retired for a number of years, Ledesma appeared in Pietro Silvestri's Ciudad invisible in 2008. She died from cardiopulmonary failure in a Buenos Aires nursing home two years later in 2010, aged 83. She was interred in the Actors' Pantheon at

Chacarita Cemetery.[4]

Selected filmography

References