Nati Mistral

Born on December 13, 1928 in the capital of Spain, Natividad Macho Álvarez (her real name) lived with her humble family near the Gran Vía during her childhood. She declared that during the Civil War she had witnessed several murders by of republicans, which led her to sympathize with Francoism. She adopted the nickname  Nati Mistral  after the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. She began as a meritorious in the Spanish Theater at the age of fifteen.

She was about to marry fellow actor  Tony Leblanc . “We had a flat and even a tableware that  Lola Flores had given us ,” she recalls. But one afternoon they had an argument because she did not want to give him a canvas that she had bought to paint a picture. “That day she didn’t come looking for me, the next day she didn’t come to look for me either and so on until today…”. After the disappointment, she decided to spend a season outside of Spain, traveling to Germany with the Los Vieneses company. Back,  Luis Escobar he recruited her for “I wait for you in the Eslava”, a magazine that was enormously successful. “I don’t regret having started so young because, otherwise, you can’t, you don’t have time,” she commented in an interview. “In my case, I was a star very soon and that’s not right. When you are so young you are very unconscious. She obtained her most praiseworthy reviews as the protagonist of “Divinas Palabras”, by  Ramón María del Valle-Inclán . She is considered a precursor of the musical in Spain, since she starred in the first Spanish version of “El hombre de La Mancha”, which in 1966 opened the Fine Arts Theater in Madrid.

He combined the stages with a successful musical career, as he made various songs popular, such as “Paisajes de Catamarca” or “Agua que no ha de beber”. He did very little in the cinema, since he was barely involved in a dozen titles, since he starred in  María Fernanda, la Jerezana , in 1947. In  Las inquietudes de Shanti Andia  he worked with  Jorge Mistral , who did not have that last name either, he also used a pseudonym. She was also present in  Currito de la Cruz ,  Cabaret  and  My dear Buenos Aires ”. She said goodbye to the screen with the experimental film  Medea 2 , by  Javier Aguirre , from 2006.

In 1959 she married Joaquín Vila Puig, to whom she was united until she was widowed in 1995. They had no children. “I was lucky enough to marry a rich man,” she recalled. “That was good for me because I didn’t have to do stupid things like other actresses.” In 1997 she received the National Theater Award, and in 2007 the Gold Medal of Fine Arts. In recent years she had renewed her popularity due to her always controversial interventions on 13TV, “the chain of the bishops”, as she herself said. She gave blows to all sectors, as she defined Pablo Iglesias, from Podemos, as a “photocopy boy”, but she also accused Mariano Rajoy, from the PP, of acting for Freemasonry.