Ana Isabel Álvarez-Diosdado Gisbert OAXS (21 May 1938 – 5 October 2015) better known as Ana Diosdado was a dual

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actress, playwright, theater director, and writer. Her acting credits include the television series, ''Las llaves de la independencia''. Diosdado's work as a playwright includes ''

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'', which debuted in

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, on 28 June 1970. Diosdado was born on 21 May 1938 in

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, to Spanish parents,

Enrique Diosdado Enrique Diosdado (May 6, 1910 – December 1, 1983) was a Spanish actor. He is sometimes credited as Enrique Alvarez Diosdado. Diosdado was a leading man of Argentine and Spanish films of the 1940s and 1950s. His daughter, Ana Diosdado, was a lea ...

, an actor, and Isabel Gisbert, who had fled the

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. Ana Diosdado died from complications of cardiorespiratory failure during a meeting at the Sociedad General de Autores in Madrid, Spain, on 5 October 2015, at the age of 77.

Filmography

Writer

Actress

*1974: Juan y Manuela (TV Series, 13 episodes) *1983: Anillos de oro (TV Series, 13 episodes,) *1986: Segunda enseñanza (TV Series 1986), 13 episodes) *2008: El libro de las aguas

Director

*1995: Función de noche (TV Series, 1 episode)

Honours

* Dame Grand Cross of the

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(''Posthumous'', Kingdom of Spain, 9 October 2015).Boletín Oficial del Estado
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References

1938 births 2015 deaths Spanish theatre directors 20th-century Spanish actresses Spanish television actresses Spanish stage actresses Spanish dramatists and playwrights Spanish women dramatists and playwrights People from Buenos Aires Argentine film actresses {{Spain-playwright-stub