Mexico Metropolis (CNN) — Silvia Pinal, a legendary Mexican actress who starred in Luis Buñuel’s iconic “Viridiana,” died on Thursday, in accordance with the Televisa-Univision community and authorities officers. She was 93.
Born in 1931 within the metropolis of Guaymas in northwestern Mexico, Pinal was one of many main actresses in Mexico’s ‘Golden Age’ of cinema within the mid-Twentieth century, alongside stars similar to Pedro Infante, Germán Valdés “Tin Tan,” Cantinflas, and Arturo de Córdova.
Mexico’s Tradition Secretary, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, mourned the actress on social media, calling her “a pioneer in theatre, paving the best way for future generations.”
“Her legacy as an artist and her contribution to our tradition are unforgettable,” Curiel de Icaza wrote. “Could she relaxation in peace.”
One among her daughters, Sylvia Pasquel, mentioned early this week that Pinal was underneath intensive care dealing with problems from an urinary an infection.
Pinal was a larger-than-life determine, with voluptuous blonde hair and shiny pink lipstick. She acquired her begin in movie when she was simply 18, enjoying a small position within the 1949 movie “Bamba.”
Over her six-decade profession, Pinal starred in dozens of movies produced in Mexico, the US and Europe. She gained worldwide fame for her roles in three movies by legendary filmmaker Luis Buñuel, first on “Viridiana” (1962), the primary Spanish-Mexican manufacturing to win the Palme d’Or on the Cannes Movie Competition, and afterward “Simon of the Desert” (1965) and “The Exterminating Angel” (1967).
Pinal additionally starred within the 1969 Mexican-American motion movie “Shark!” alongside Burt Reynolds.
Along with movie, Pinal had profitable careers in musical theatre and tv, as each an actress and producer. She produced the favored telenovela “Mujer, casos de la vida actual,” which aired for greater than 20 years, till 2007.
Emilion Azcarraga, chairman of the board of main Mexican tv firm Grupo Televisa, the place Pinal labored for many years and which made a collection primarily based on her life, paid tribute to the actress on social media.
“It saddens us to say goodbye to the diva of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, theater and tv, and on the identical time it fills us with satisfaction to have shared so a few years of studying along with her in what at all times was and can at all times be her Televisa dwelling,” Azcarraga mentioned.
Pinal additionally dabbled in Mexican politics as a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Celebration, with which she received seats in Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, the Senate and Mexico Metropolis native meeting.
Pinal was married 4 occasions, and had 4 kids, together with rock singer Alejandra Guzmán.
Pinal’s magnificence was captured in each body and is immortalized in a portrait painted of her by Diego Rivera, one of many best representatives of muralism in Mexico.
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