Margarita Lozano

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Margarita Lozano ( Tetouan , February 14, 1931 - Lorca , February 7, 2022 ) was a Spanish actress , best known for her roles in Italian film productions such as For a Fistful of Dollars .

Life

Margarita Lozano was born in 1931 in Tétouan, which at that time still belonged to Spanish Morocco . Her first minor acting role was in the 1953 Spanish film Hermano menor . She starred in several other Spanish film productions, including 1961 as the housekeeper Ramona in Luis Buñuel's Viridiana .

In 1963, Lozano switched from Spanish to Italian film. Her first role there was in 1963 's Il peccato . In the following forty years she appeared in more than twenty Italian film productions. Lozano's best-known role came in 1964 as Consuelo Baxter , the later murdered leader of a family clan in the western A Fistful of Dollars , starring Clint Eastwood . She starred as Amalia in the 1969 Italian-French drama A Hot November .

Lozano's later roles included Mariagrazia in the 1984 literary adaptation Kaos and Baptistine in the 1986 French production Jean Florette . That same year she had a starring role as Eleanora Moro , wife of Aldo Moro , in The Aldo Affair to see Moro . In 2006, Lozano ended her acting career at the age of 75.

In May 2015, Margarita Lozano received an honorary doctorate from the University of Murcia . In 2018 she was honored for her artistic achievements with the state award Medalla de Oro al mérito en las Bellas Artes for cultural workers. Lozano lived on a plantation in Bagnaia . She died in February 2022, a week before her 91st birthday.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1953: Hermano Menor
  • 1959 Diego Corrientes
  • 1961: Viridiana
  • 1964: For a Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari)
  • 1969: The Pigsty (Porcile)
  • 1969: A Hot November (Un bellissimo novembre)
  • 1969: The Ax (Baltagul)
  • 1982: The Night of San Lorenzo (La Notte di San Lorenzo)
  • 1984: Chaos
  • 1985: The fair is over (La messa è finita)
  • 1986 Jean Florette
  • 1986: Manon's Revenge (Manon des Sources)
  • 1986: The Aldo Moro Affair (Il caso Moro)
  • 1986: La mitad del cielo
  • 1987: Good Morning, Babylon
  • 1987: Bluebeard and His Children (Barbablù, Barbablù)
  • 1987-1988: Federico Garcia Lorca - The Death of a Poet ( Lorca, muerte de un poeta ; TV series)
  • 1990: Night Sun (Il sole anche di notte)
  • 1991: Mima

web links

Commons : Margarita Lozano  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

itemizations

  1. ↑ Death notice. In: laverdad.es. 7 February 2022, retrieved 7 February 2022 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Las actrices Penélope Cuz y Margarita Lozano entre las Medallas de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes. In: Cine & Tele. December 31, 2018, retrieved January 6, 2019 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Lozano, Margarita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish actress
BIRTH DATE February 14, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Tetouan
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2022
PLACE OF DEATH Lorca