Anna Lizaran
Anna Lizaran | |
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Born | Esparreguera, Catalonia, Spain | 31 August 1944
Died | 12 January 2013 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain | (aged 68)
Nationality | Spanish |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1976–2012 |
Notable work | La plaça del Diamant, Actrius, High Heels, Herois, Agost, Forasters, La Via Augusta, L'un per l'altre, Porca Misèria |
Anna Lizaran (31 August 1944 – 12 January 2013[1]) was a Catalan actress of stage, film and television.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Lizaran's father was a mechanic and her mother a dressmaker. She showed enormous interest in the theatre when she was a child and studied theatre in the Centre d'Estudis Experimentals of Barcelona and was one of the first members of . In 1974, she moved to Paris to study with the mime Jacques Lecoq.[2][3]
Career[]
When Lizaran returned to Barcelona in 1976, she started working in the Teatre Lliure. She since starred in such celebrated Spanish movies as High Heels (together with co-star Penélope Cruz) and Actrius.[4] In 1996, she directed the TV show Arsènic i puntes de coixí for television. In 2005, she performed the character Rosa for the second season of the TV3 sitcom L'un per l'altre.[5]
In her later years she performed in the television series La Via Augusta (2007), the film Herois (2010), and her latest theater performance was for the Catalan adaptation of August: Osage County as Violet and broke records for the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya.[1][6]
Death[]
Lizaran died in the Hospital Clínic, Barcelona on the morning of 12 January 2013 of cancer at age 68.[7] The cancer was diagnosed three months before her death. She was unable to release her latest theater work, La Bête.[8]
Filmography[]
- Morir (o no) (2000)
- La primera noche de mi vida(1998)
- Actrius (1997)
- La Celestina (1996)
- El perquè de tot plegat (1995)
- Souvenir (1994)
- High Heels (1991)
- La teranyina (1990)
- La plaça del diamant (1982)
- El vicari d'Olot(1980)
- Salut i força al canut (1979)
Theater[]
- 1976: "Camí de nit, 1854".
- 1977: "Titus Andrònic" • "Leonci i Lena" • "La cacatúa verda" • "Ascensió i caiguda de la ciutat de Mahagonny".
- 1978: "La vida del Rei Eduard II d'Anglaterra" • "La nit de les tríbades" • "Hedda Gabler".
- 1979: "La bella Helena" • "Les tres germanes".
- 1980: "Jordi Dandin" • "El balcó".
- 1981: "Operació Ubú".
- 1982: "El misàntrop" • "Primera història d'Esther".
- 1983: "Al vostre gust" • "Advertència per a embarcacions petites".
- 1984: "Una jornada particular".
- 1985: "Un dels últims vespres de carnaval" • "La senyoreta Júlia".
- 1986: "La senyora de Sade".
- 1987: "Lorenzaccio, Lorenzaccio" • "El 30 d'abril".
- 1988: "La bona persona del Sezuàn".
- 1990: "Maria Estuard" • "Un capvespre al jardí".
- 1991: "El cántaro roto".
- 1992: "Dansa d'agost" • "El dol escau a Electra" • "El parc".
- 1993: "Roberto Zucco".
- 1994: "Un dels últims vespres de carnaval" • "Les noces de Fígaro" • "Quartet".
- 1995: "Arsènic i puntes de coixí".
- 1996: "Lear o el somni d'una actriu" • "El temps i l'habitació".
- 1998: "Quartet" • "Morir" • "Galatea".
- 1999: "Tot esperant Godot" • "La nit de les Tríbades".
- 2000: "L'hort dels cirerers".
- 2001: "L'adéu de Lucrècia Borja".
- 2002: "Escenes d'una execució" • "Testimoni Verdaguer".
- 2003: "Homenatge a Josep Montanyés" • "El retorn al desert".
- 2004: "Forasters" • "Dissabte, diumenge i dilluns".
- 2005: "Un matrimoni de Boston" • "Homenatge a Carlota Soldevila".
- 2006: "Rosencrantz y Guilderstein són morts" • "Hamlet" • "La tempestad" .
- 2010: "Agost" (August: Osage County)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "L'actriu Anna Lizaran mor als 68 anys a causa d'un càncer" (in Catalan). 3/24. 12 January 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ^ Antón, Jacinto (2013-01-12). "Fallece Anna Lizaran, la gran dama del Teatre Lliure". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
- ^ "ANNA LIZARAN". Academia del cinema (in Catalan). Retrieved 2019-12-16.
- ^ http://www.film.com/celebrities/anna-lizaran/14557905 Film.com
- ^ "L'un per l'altre: Actors" (in Catalan). TV3. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ^ "'Agost' torna a exhaurir totes les entrades i prorroga fins al juliol" (in Catalan). Ara. 14 May 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ^ "Mor l'actriu catalana Anna Lizaran als 68 anys a conseqüència d'un càncer" (in Catalan). El Periódico de Catalunya. 12 January 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ^ ""La Bête" dóna finalment el tret de sortida a l'última temporada de Belbel com a director del TNC" (in Catalan). 3/24. 26 October 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
External links[]
- 1944 births
- 2013 deaths
- Stage actresses from Catalonia
- Film actresses from Catalonia
- Television actresses from Catalonia
- Deaths from cancer in Spain
- 20th-century Spanish actresses
- 21st-century Spanish actresses