Marisa Paredes, with the Goya of Honor in her arms: “finally we see each other's faces…”

The 71-year-old veteran actress is acclaimed in a resounding ovation after receiving the Goya of Honor from the Film Academy, an institution that she presided between 2000 and 2003.

Marisa Paredes has been awarded this Saturday with the Goya de Honor in this 32nd edition of the contest. The Spanish Film Academy thus recognizes a life, 71 years, dedicated to acting, with this award that has received from the hands of his daughter, the actress María Isasi and the director Agustí Villaronga.

“Finally we see each other's faces” Marisa Paredes sarcastically snapped at the “bighead” when she finally had him in her arms after several nominations. Paredes, 71, has received a Goya Award for the first time, after having been nominated on two previous occasions, one for best leading actress for The flower of my secretto, in 1995, and another as a supporting actress for chard face (1987).

“The life of an actress is like a merry-go-round, like the roulette of fortune,” Paredes said excitedly. “Many directors trusted me, and they have also been lucky that I trusted them,” recalled the actress who presided over the Film Academy between 2000 and 2003. It was precisely at the end of her mandate when the world of cinema rose in the middle of a controversial gala, which is still remembered today, to show his rejection of the Iraq war. In this regard, Paredes has been very frank: “I would repeat the 'no to war' speech again.”

The Goya de Honor has been awarded to the actress for her “prolific and long career, a career that he maintains with absolute vigor, betting on numerous works on national and international film projects defined by risk and prestige.”

Marisa Paredes: a life… of cinema

Born in Madrid in 1946, Marisa Paredes began her studies at the Conservatory and the School of Dramatic Art in this city. Her early vocation would make her debut in cinema at just 14 years old with José Osuna in Not tonight either and José María Forqué in 091 Police speaking. She would be followed by intense dramatic activity, both on stage and on television, where he represented characters created by Ibsen, Shakespeare, Chekhov or Neville in the renowned Study 1.

His first film roles were in supporting roles and mainly in comedies. Carola by day, Carola by night, by Jaime de Armiñán; The rebel, by Juan de Orduña; and The dog, by Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, were some of the titles in which he participated in the sixties and seventies.

The eighties began by participating in Debut, by Fernando Trueba, and His golden years, by Emillio Martínez Lázaro; which would be followed by his first work with Pedro Almodóvar, In darkness. Already in the nineties she became a fetish actress of the director from La Mancha, with whom she worked again in Far away heels, The flower of my secret, All about my mother and The skin I live in.

After participating in Fernando Trueba's first feature film, he would also participate in the first works of other prominent names in Spanish cinema, such as Agustí Villaronga (Behind the glass) and Felipe Vega (As long as there is light).

A regular in European cinema, he has worked with filmmakers such as Amos Gitai (Golem, l'esprit de l'exil), Daniel Schmid (Out of season), Philip Lioret (In transit), Raoul Ruiz (Three lives and one death,), Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful), Alain Tanner (Jonas and Lila), Maria Sole Tognazzi (The man she loves), Cristina Comencini (My Italian family), Manoel de Oliveira (Magic mirror)…

His extensive filmography, of more than 75 films, is completed with feature films such as deep crimson y The colonel has no one to write to him, by Arturo Ripstein; The Devil's Backbone, by Guillermo del Toro; cold winter sun, by Pablo Malo; and The wooden god, by Vicente Molina Foix, among others. One of his latest works is Petra, by Jaime Rosales.

President of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain between 2000 and 2003, she has received numerous awards, such as the National Cinematography Award, the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts or the Great Vermeil Medal of the City of Paris. , as well as film awards in international competitions such as Karlovy Vary, Taormina, Gijón, Málaga or Valladolid.

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