Actress Silvia Pinal, star of tv and theater and regarded the final diva of Mexican cinema, died this Thursday on the age of 93, reported the Ministry of Tradition. Pinal, muse of Spanish director Luis Buñuel, died in a Mexico Metropolis hospital the place she was admitted final week to be handled for a urinary tract an infection.
Mexican media stated household and associates had been together with her on the finish. Throughout a profession spanning greater than six a long time, Pinal performed a nun in Buñuel's movie “Viridiana,” which gained the Palme d'Or on the 1961 Cannes movie pageant.
He appeared in two different movies by the director who fled Spain after the civil conflict of the 1930s and finally settled in Mexico. These had been “The Exterminating Angel” (1962) and “Simon of the Desert” (1965). Along with “Viridiana” they fashioned a trilogy.
Pinal appeared in 84 movies and 42 performs, in line with the media firm Televisa-Univision, for which Pinal labored extensively.
“Her legacy as an artist and her contribution to our tradition are unforgettable,” stated the Minister of Tradition, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, on the social community Mexican from 1940 to 1960.