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Ana Diosdado

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At the age of 77, and due to a cardiorespiratory arrest while participating in a meeting of the General Society of Spanish Authors (SGAE), the actress, writer and theater director Ana Diosdado has died. She was in front of and behind the camera, on stage and backstage.

He was born into a family of comedians, his parents were the actors Enrique Diosdado and Isabel Gisbert, who went into exile in Buenos Aires, Argentina during the Spanish civil war. In that city she saw the light of day in 1938 and already at the age of five she moved around the tables of a stage in the representation of the play “Mariana Pineda”, where she played this role, her godmother Margarita Xirgu.

In the 1950s he returned to Spain and worked in his father’s theater company, while he began studies in philosophy and letters at Madrid’s Complutense, which he did not finish. In that decade she would begin her sentimental relationship with Carlos Larrañaga , also from the theater world, although they did not marry until 1979, breaking up in 1999.

He wrote novels such as “Anywhere, No Matter When”, a finalist for the Planet. And the play for which he is best remembered, “Olvida los tambores”, which would be adapted for film by Rafael Gil in 1975.

His face became popular on the small screen thanks to the television series. Especially Anillos de oro , from 1983, where she was also a screenwriter, and in which she was accompanied by Imanol Arias . Although Juan and Manuela and Segunda Enseñanza were also well received .

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