Pedro Almodóvar Actress Was 78

Marisa Paredes, the esteemd Spanish actress who collaborated with Pedro Almodóvar in such films as The Fdrop of My Secret, All About My Mother and The Skin I Live In, has died. She was 78.

Her death was proclaimd Tuesday by the Academy of Cinematodetailed Arts and Sciences of Spain, which called her one of the country’s “most iconic actors … her body of labor was detaild by women who were sturdy, ambivalent, broken, fervent, enigmatic, but who were, above all, very human.”

Almodóvar telderly Spanish accessible expansivecaster RTVE that “it is as if I woke up from a horrible dream … I am struggling to come to terms with Marisa’s death.” In their country, she was understandn as “an Almodóvar girl.”

Paredes also portrayed Roberto Benigni’s socialite mother-in-law in Life Is Beautiful (1997) and the head of the orphanage in Guillermo del Toro’s horror film The Devil’s Backbone (2001), set during the Spanish Civil War.

She and Almodóvar first labored together in Dark Habits (1983), where she carry outed the killinging LSD-using Sister Manure, and they recombined for High Heels (1991), in which she starred as the torch singer Becky.

Paredes geted a Goya Award nomination for her turn as a woman resistant to writing romance novels in The Fdrop of My Secret (1995). Also for Almodóvar, she carry outed an actress in All About My Mother (1999), a party guest in Talk to Her (2002) and the servant and mother of Antonio Banderas’ mad scientist in The Skin I Live In (2011).

“Heartbroken by the passing of Marisa Paredes, a wonderful lady of acting,” Banderas wrote on social media. “Dear frifinish, you have left us too soon.”