The muse of great European directors Margarita Lothano has died at the age of 90

The Spaniard passed away at the age of 90 actor Margarita Lothano who was the muse of great European directors such as Pier Paolo Pasolino and Luis Buιuel.

«The municipality of Lorca declares three days of mourning for the death of the actress and adopted daughter of the city, Margarita Lothano“, Said in a tweet the municipality of this city in southeastern Spain where the actress grew up.

Born in 1931 in Tetouan, Morocco, then a Spanish protectorate, the daughter of a soldier stationed there, Margarita Lothano began studying fashion but dropped out to pursue a career as an actress. She made her theatrical debut in Madrid.

He won the Golden Palm at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival

He starred in “Viridiana”, a drama by Spanish director Luis Boniuel, which won the Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival in 1961.

Lothano, highly regarded by Italian directors, starred with Pier Paolo Pasolini in “Pigsty” (1969) and with Sergio Leone in “For a Handful of Dollars” (1964) with Clint Eastwood.

She then retires from the big screen to dedicate herself to her family, but returns to Italian cinema in the 1980s to the Taviani brothers’ films or to Nani Moretti’s “La messa è finita” (The End is Over).

Her boyfriend, Spanish architect Simon Angel Ross, said she left “in peace”. “Her heart was slowly losing weight, she did not suffer,” she told local media, according to the Athens News Agency.

Source: News Beast

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