Margarita Lozano

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Margarita Lozano
Died7 February 2022(2022-02-07) (aged 90)
OccupationActress
Years active1953–2007

Margarita de las Flores Lozano Jiménez (14 February 1931 – 7 February 2022) was a Spanish actress known for her career in Italian films.

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She worked with the

She returned in 1988 with Miguel Narros in the plays

La casa de Bernarda Alba, by Federico García Lorca, directed by Amelia Ochandiano.[5][6]

Biography

Margarita Lozano was born in Tetuán, at that time known as Spanish protectorate of Morocco. Lozano spent her childhood in Lorca (Murcia), where she later returned to establish her residence. She lived in multiple countries such as Germany, Madagascar, Italy, Senegal, and Africa.[7] Lozano claimed that the only reason she left Africa was because her mother became ill and she had to care for her.[7] Her mother would tell her that when she was about age four, Lozano would go behind curtains and say 'The actress is coming out' and in an interview she says that she was born an actress.[8]

Theater and film

At age 19 Lozano moved to Madrid to study fashion and design. However; she later abandoned this field to become an actress. She quickly became Miguel Narros' preferred actress[

La dama duende, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.[1]

Lozano played secondary film roles for which she won the National Syndicate of the Show for best actress. She won for Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961), in which she portrays Ramona, a maid who secretly drugs the protagonist and sets her up for rape. After 1963, Lozano reduced her activity in Spanish cinema and moved forward with producer Carlo Ponti in Italian cinema.

The film Night of The Shooting Stars by Paolo Taviani got 56 editions published between 1981 and 2016 in four languages, drawing inspiration from their experiences in Nazi-occupied Italy. Margarita Lozano was also part of the Clint Eastwood collection. She appeared in Taviani's Kaos, which tells the story of peasant families struggling to survive amid the pull of the new world.[9]

Later life and death

Lozano resided in Bagnaia, Viterbo.[10] She died in Lorca on 7 February 2022, at the age of 90, one week before her 91st birthday.[11]

Recognition

In May 2015 she was named

Universidad de Murcia.[12]

Prizes include:

  • Best actress National Syndicate of the Show in Un ángel tuvo la culpa (1960).
  • Best Supporting Actress ACE (New York) in La mitad del cielo (1986).
  • Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes 2018, granted by the government of Spain.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ a b "Margarita Lozano". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  2. Vocento
    . 14 October 1958. p. 44. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
  3. Vocento
    . p. 95. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
  4. ^ Torres, Rosana (4 February 1998). "El regreso de una de las grandes". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
  5. Prisa
    . Retrieved 31 May 2012.
  6. Vocento
    . Retrieved 31 May 2012.
  7. ^ a b "Margarita Lozano". La Verdad (in European Spanish). 25 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  8. ISSN 1134-6582
    . Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  9. ^ "Lozano, Margarita 1931-".
  10. Prisa
    . Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  11. ^ Adiós a Margarita Lozano, la actriz más hipnótica del cine español (in Spanish)
  12. Universidad de Murcia
    (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 October 2018.

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