The great Rosa Maria Sardà dies

The world of cinema and television says goodbye to the Catalan director, actress and writer who died this Thursday at the age of 78, a victim of cancer.

Rosa Maria Sardà He surprised last April by announcing in an interview with Jordi Évole that he was suffering from cancer. This Thursday, June 11, the great Catalan director, actress and writer died in Barcelona at the age of 78.

Self-taught, Sardà has given countless examples of his multifaceted talent and his marked creative personality.

A vocational but late actress, Sardà debuted in the theater at the age of 24; A decade later she would do it on television and, already in the seventies, in the movies. A fifty films endorse his career cinematographic work by directors such as Pedro Almodóvar, Fernando Trueba, Fernando Colomo, Icíar Bollaín and Ventura Pons.

Moors and Christians, Alegre ma non troppo, Airbag, The apple of your eyes, All about my mother, y Eight Catalan surnames, are some of the interpreter's most notable works.

Con Why do they call it love when they mean sex?? (1993) y No shame (2001) Sardà won two Goya awards for best supporting actress. The Academy of Dinner, for which he masterfully presented the annual awards ceremony on several occasions, in 2010 awarded him the Gold medal of the institution.

On television, his first foray was in 1969 in The Noise Collector, from Space. Novel (1969), in successive years he participated in several productions of Fictions, Studio Theater y Study 1. Between 1984 and 1987 she surprised him with his acid humor in space. I want to see you there. His last work for the small screen was Two divine women (2011).

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