Myriam Palacios
Myriam Isabel Palacios Piña (born December 18, 1936 in Victoria , Chile , † March 18, 2013 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean actress .
Live and act
Myriam Palacios was the daughter of Héctor Palacios, a former bank employee of the Banco de Chile and his wife Isabel Piña. She was born in Victoria, a city in the Chilean Región de la Araucanía . There she attended the college Ignacio Carrera Pinto. She then studied theater in the 1960s at the Teatro Universidad de Concepción and at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago de Chile. In Santiago she married the actor and local politician Jorge Gajardo (* 1936), from whom she later separated. They had two sons.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Palacios was very present in Chilean film, television and theater, especially as a comedian. One of her best-known theater appearances is the role of María Luisa in Tres Marías y una Rosa . The piece was created as part of the Taller de Investigación Teatral (TIT) theater project, which mainly involved students and graduates from the Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. It was premiered in 1979 under the direction of Raúl Osorio. It then made guest appearances in Latin America and Europe. Palacio's first major film role in 1987 was Laura in the commercially successful comedy Sussi by director Gonzalo Justiniano (* 1955), with whom she worked several times. In 1990 the socially critical feature film Caluga o menta followed , where she played the mother of the main character Niki, and in 1994 the role of Yolanda in the drama Amnesia . In 2000 she had her last major film appearance in Silvio Caiozzi's (* 1944) drama Coronación , a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by José Donoso , which Chile submitted for the 2001 Academy Awards . This role earned Palacios a nomination for the Chilean art prize Premio Altazor de las Artes Nacionales in the Audiovisual Arts category , Best Actress . She also appeared in numerous telenovelas , often directed by Óscar Rodríguez Gingins (* 1945). These included roles in Matrimonio de papel , Marrón glacé , Marrón glacé, el regreso , Playa salvaje and Fuera de control .
During her evening life, Myriam Palacios lived alone in a house in San José de Maipo in the Región Metropolitana de Santiago . She received a low grace pension. As she increasingly suffered from the consequences of Alzheimer's disease , she spent the last seven years of her life in Hogar Dulce Hogar , a private nursing home run by singer Mónica de Calixto for former actors in Santiago. Palacios died there at the age of 76.
Filmography
- 1982: Celos (TV series)
- 1983: El 18 de los García
- 1985: Matrimonio de papel (TV series)
- 1986: La villa (TV series)
- 1987: Sussi
- 1987: Mi nombre es Lara (TV series)
- 1988: Hechos consumados
- 1988: Consuelo
- 1989: Sor Teresa de los Andes (TV series)
- 1990: Caluga o Menta
- 1990: Dos mujeres en la ciudad
- 1991: La niña en la Palomera
- 1993: Marrón Glacé (TV series)
- 1994: Los náufragos
- 1994: Champaña (TV series)
- 1994: loss of memory ( amnesia )
- 1995: El amor esta de moda (TV series)
- 1995: Amor a domicilio (TV series)
- 1996: Marrón Glacé, el regreso (TV series)
- 1997: Pasión gitana
- 1997: Playa salvaje (TV series)
- 1999: Fuera de control (TV series)
- 1999: Canto olvidado (short film)
- 1999: El chacotero sentimental: La película
- 2000: Coronación
- 2001: Corazón pirata (TV series)
- 2002: La vida es una lotería (TV series)
- 2006: Las golondrinas de Altazor
Web links
- Myriam Palacios in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Obituary in La Tercera (Spanish)
- TV report about Myriam Palacios after her death on the website of the Chilean news channel Canal 24 Horas (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Victoria: Un minuto de silencio por Myriam Palacios en su tierra natal. laopinon.cl, accessed April 2, 2013.
- ↑ a b Los solitarios últimos años de Myriam Palacios. In: La Tercera March 20, 2013, accessed April 2, 2013.
- ^ Francisca Rivas: Fallce actriz chilena Myriam Palacios. biobiochile.cl, March 18, 2013, accessed April 2, 2013.
- ^ Myriam Palacios ( Memento of March 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) premioaltazor.cl, accessed on April 2, 2013.
- ↑ Muere Myriam Palacios, una de las grandes comediantes de cine y TV. In: La Tercera , accessed April 2, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Palacios, Myriam |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Palacios Piña, Myriam Isabel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Victoria , Chile |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 2013 |
| Place of death | Santiago de Chile , Chile |