Elena Zuasti

Elena Zuasti (born May 18, 1935 in Montevideo , † April 8, 2011 ibid) was a Uruguayan actress .

Life

Zuasti was born in Montevideo in 1935. At the age of 20, she successfully completed her training at EMAD , a school for dramatic arts, at which she later also became a senior lecturer. Until 1976 she was a member of the Comèdia Nacional . In 1971 she received a grant from the French government. An invitation to the USA followed three years later. From 1970 to 1990 she held a management position in the theater of the Casa Municipal de Cultura . In addition, after the death of Sergio Otermin , she took over the post of director of the Casa de Comedias .

She taught them stage performance for several decades. She also appeared in the Compañía Teatral Italia Fausta and on Comediantes.com .

She was one of the first artists to appear on Uruguayan radio and adapted several European pieces (including by Samuel Beckett , Shakespeare , Calderón de la Barca , Roger Vitrac and Voltaire ), but also used works by local authors such as Jorge Sclavo and Eduardo Sarlos or Ana Magnabosco back. Zuasti was also a TV and cinema actress. So she worked u. a. in El año del dragón , A cara o cruz and in the Aldo Garay film La espera (2002). For her interpretation in La marquesa de Sade by Yukio Mishima she was awarded the Florencio Sánchez Prize . Further nominations for this award followed in 1999 for her acting performance in Greek and in 2000 for La muerte de un viajante .

She died on April 8, 2011, presumably of complications from a heart attack , while she was on stage in the role of Martiniana in the play Barranca abajo .

Filmography

• 2001: El ojo en la nuca
• 2002: La espera
• 2004: Uruguayos campeones

literature

• Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya by Miguel Ángel Campodónico , Librería Linardi y Risso, 2003, p. 361f

Web links

• Elena Zuasti in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Article about Zuasti's death

credentials

1. ↑ Un reencuentro con el teatro . La República. April 5, 2006. Retrieved April 9, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dolor en el teatro: Murió Elena Zuasti . El País . April 9, 2011. Retrieved April 9, 2011.
3. ^ Murió Elena Zuasti . El Espectador. April 9, 2011. Archived from the original on October 1, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 9, 2011. 
4. ↑ Murió la reconocida actriz Elena Zuasti . observa.com.uy. April 9, 2011. Accessed on April 9, 2011.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.