María Asunción Balaguer Golobart (8 November 1925 – 23 November 2019) was a Spanish actress. She appeared in more than 100 films and television shows from 1952 to 2016. In 1983, she played ''El barón'', by
Leandro Fernández de Moratín
Leandro Fernández de Moratín (; 10 March 1760 – 21 June 1828) was a Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet.
Biography
Moratín was born in Madrid the son of Nicolás Fernández de Moratín, a major literary reformer in ...
. In 1984, she played ''La cena del rey Baltasar'', by
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño (17 January 160025 May 1681) (, ; ) was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer. He is known as one of the most distinguished Spanish Baroque literature, poets and ...
.
She was married in 1951 to the actor
Francisco Rabal
Francisco Rabal Valera (8 March 1926 – 29 August 2001), popularly known as Paco Rabal, was a Spanish actor. His career spanned more than 200 film and television roles, between 1942 and 2001. He received numerous accolades both in Spain and abro ...
, who died in 2001. She died on 23 November 2019 in
Cercedilla,
Madrid
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at the age of 94 after a
stroke
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suffered the previous week.
Her daughter
Teresa Rabal
María Teresa Rabal Balaguer (born 1952) is a Spanish actress, singer and television presenter.Powrie, Davies & Babington p.65 The daughter of actors Francisco Rabal and Asunción Balaguer, she first appeared as child actor before going on to s ...
is also an actress.
Selected filmography
* ''
El canto del gallo'' (1955)
* ''
La otra imagen
''La otra imagen'' is a 1973 Spanish film directed by Antoni Ribas. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast
* Asunción Balaguer
* Jorge Bofill
* Miquel Bordoy
* Marta Flores
* Fernando García Ulloa
* Antonio Lara (actor), Anto ...
'' (1973)
* ''
The Witching Hour'' (1985)
* ''
Lulú de noche
''Lulu by Night'' () is a 1986 Spanish Comedy-drama film, comedy-drama Comedy thriller, thriller film directed, written and produced by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro and starring Imanol Arias, Asunción Balaguer and Antonio Resines. The music is compo ...
'' (1986)
* ''
El hermano bastardo de Dios
''The Bastard Brother of God'' () is a 1986 drama film directed by Benito Rabal and starring Francisco Rabal, Asunción Balaguer and Agustín González. It is an adaption of the novel by José Luis Coll. It is about the Spanish Civil War
...
'' (1986)
* ''
The Bird of Happiness'' (1993)
* ''
El evangelio de las maravillas'' (1998)
* ''
Mine Alone'' (2001)
Television
* ''
Polseres vermelles
''Polseres vermelles'' (, literally "Red bracelets", known in English language, English as ''The Red Band Society'') is a Catalonia, Catalan television show, created by Albert Espinosa. He and director-producer Pau Freixas had previously worked ...
''
* ''
Merlí''
References
External links
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1925 births
2019 deaths
Spanish film actresses
Spanish television actresses
20th-century Spanish actresses
People from Manresa