Celebrity Biographies
Sebastian Palomo Linares
Luckily Sebastián Palomo Linares was better at bullfighting than acting, since he only received gorings from critics. However, he had great success with Marisol in “Solos los dos”. The right-hander died on April 24, 2017 at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, after having undergone a double aortocoronary bypass, at the age of 69.
Born on April 27, 1947 in the town of Jaén from which he took his stage name, Sebastián Palomo Martínez was a few months old when the legendary Manolete died precisely in the Linares bullring. He achieved a bullfighting milestone when, in the middle of the San Isidro Fair, he was awarded the two ears of the fifth bull, “Cigarrón”, and the first tail after thirty-seven years of drought in the bullring, a feat that has not been repeated to date. repeat.
This fact did not satisfy all passionate bullfighters, but the matador became a great celebrity. So the astute filmmaker Pedro Lazaga decided to take advantage of the momentum to film Nuevo en esta plaza , a biography in which Sebastián Palomo Linares played himself, ever since he was a humble shoemaker’s apprentice who secretly fights at night. Although the critics did not take him out through the front door, the success was such that he would be paired with one of the great stars of the time, the adolescent Marisol , in Solos los dos , where both play themselves, maintaining a story of quarreled love.
Although luckily for the acting profession he preferred to focus on his capes, he would also appear as a supporting role in A Great Lady , wrapping up Lola Flores herself , and briefly in the drama La Carmen . The legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky paid tribute to him in The Mirror , where some Spanish characters appear, devoted to the bullfighter. Palomo Linares has been married since 1977 to Marina Danko, mother of his two children, from whom he divorced in 2012.