Much appreciated by Italian filmmakers, she notably starred in “Viridiana”, a drama by Spanish director Luis Buñuel, which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961.
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Margarita Lozano, Spanish actress from Morocco, who toured with great European directors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini or Luis Buñuel, died Monday February 7 at the age of 90, local authorities announced. “The town hall of Lorca decrees three days of mourning after the disappearance of the actress and adopted daughter of the town, Margarita Lozano”, at announced on Twitter this Spanish municipality located in the southeast of the country, where the actress grew up.
Born on February 14, 1931 in Tetouan, Morocco, then under the Spanish protectorate, to a soldier father who was stationed there, Margarita Lozano began by studying fashion before abandoning them to follow her passion and become an actress. She made her theater debut in Madrid.
In the cinema, she notably played in Viridianadrama by Spanish director Luis Buñuel, which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961. Very popular with Italian directors, she worked with Pier Paolo Pasolini in Pigsty (1969), and with Sergio Leone in the western For a fistful of dollars (1964) with Clint Eastwood.
Margarita Lozano then retired from the stage and the screens to devote herself to her family, then returned to Italian cinema in the 1980s in several films by the Taviani brothers or in Mass is over by Nanni Moretti. Her friend, Spanish architect Simon Angel Ros, explained that she was gone “in peace” : “Her heart slowly weakened, she did not suffer”, he told local media.