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 Spa ...
. 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, writer and knight of the Order of Santiago. He is known as one of the most distinguished Baroque ...
.
She was married in 1951 to the actor
Francisco Rabal
Francisco Rabal Valera (8 March 1926 – 29 August 2001), better known as Paco Rabal, was a Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter born in Águilas, a town in the south-western part of the province of Murcia, Spain. Throughout his career, Rab ...
, who died in 2001. She died on 23 November 2019 in
Cercedilla
Cercedilla () is a municipality in the Community of Madrid, in central Spain. It is located in the Sierra de Guadarrama. Background
It was the hometown of Francisco Fernández Ochoa (1950–2006), an alpine ski racer known for being the first ( ...
,
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), an ...
at the age of 94 after a
stroke 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
EL, El or el may refer to:
Religion
* El (deity), a Semitic word for "God"
People
* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer
* El DeBarge, music artist
* El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American po ...
'' (1955)
* ''
La otra imagen'' (1973)
* ''
The Witching Hour'' (1985)
* ''
Lulú de noche
''Lulu by Night'' ( es, Lulú de noche) is a 1986 Spanish comedy-drama thriller film directed, written and produced by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro and starring Imanol Arias, Asunción Balaguer
María Asunción Balaguer Golobart (8 November 192 ...
'' (1986)
* ''
El hermano bastardo de Dios
''The Bastard Brother of God'' ( es, El hermano bastardo de Dios) 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 ab ...
'' (1986)
* ''
The Bird of Happiness'' (1993)
* ''
El evangelio de las maravillas
''El evangelio de las maravillas'' ("The Gospel of the Marvels") is a 1998 Mexican drama film directed by Arturo Ripstein. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small c ...
'' (1998)
* ''
Mine Alone'' (2001)
Television
* ''
Polseres vermelles
''Polseres vermelles'' (, literally "Red bracelets", known in English as ''The Red Band Society'') is a Catalan television show, created by Albert Espinosa. He and director-producer Pau Freixas had previously worked together on the film '.
The s ...
''
* ''
Merlí''
References
External links
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1925 births
2019 deaths
Spanish film actresses
Spanish television actresses
20th-century Spanish actresses