Margarita Lozano

Margarita Lozano
Margarita de las Flores Lozano Jiménez (14 February 1931 – 7 February 2022) was a Spanish actress known for her career in Italian films. She worked for Luis Buñuel in Viridiana, Sergio Leone in A Fistful of Dollars, Pier Paolo Pasolini in Pigsty, the Taviani brothers in The Night of the Shooting Stars, Kaos and Good Morning Babylon; Nanni Moretti in La messa è finita; and in Claude Berri's diptych Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources.
She worked with the theater director Miguel Narros in Fedra, by Miguel de Unamuno (1957); Three Sisters, by Anton Chekhov (1960); Fröken Julie, by August Strindberg (1961); La camisa, by Lauro Olmo (1962); El caballero de Olmedo, by Lope de Vega and La dama duende, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
She returned in 1988 with Miguel Narros in the plays Long Day's Journey into Night, by Eugene O'Neill, and La vita che ti diedi, by Luigi Pirandello. In 2007 she made her last appearance in the play La casa de Bernarda Alba, by Federico García Lorca, directed by Amelia Ochandiano.
Biography
Margarita Lozano was born in Tetuán, at that time known as Spanish Protectorate of Morocco. Lozano spent her childhood in Lorca (Murcia), where she later returned to establish her residence. She lived in multiple countries such as Germany, Madagascar, Italy, Senegal, and Africa. Lozano claimed that the only reason she left Africa was because her mother became ill and she had to care for her. Her mother would tell her that when she was about age four, Lozano would go behind curtains and say 'The actress is coming out' and in an interview she says that she was born an actress.
Theater and film
At age 19 Lozano moved to Madrid to study fashion and design. However; she later abandoned this field to become an actress. She quickly became Miguel Narros' preferred actress and starred in multiple plays that were considered risky at the time, such as Fedra, by Miguel de Unamuno (1957); Three Sisters, by Anton Chekhov (1960); Fröken Julie, by August Strindberg (1961); La camisa, by Lauro Olmo (1962); El caballero de Olmedo, by Lope de Vega and La dama duende, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
Lozano played secondary film roles for which she won the National Syndicate of the Show for best actress. She won for Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961), in which she portrays Ramona, a maid who secretly drugs the protagonist and sets her up for rape. After 1963, Lozano reduced her activity in Spanish cinema and moved forward with producer Carlo Ponti in Italian cinema.
The film Night of The Shooting Stars by Paolo Taviani got 56 editions published between 1981 and 2016 in four languages, drawing inspiration from their experiences in Nazi-occupied Italy. Margarita Lozano was also part of the Clint Eastwood collection. She appeared in Taviani's Kaos, which tells the story of peasant families struggling to survive amid the pull of the new world.
Later life and death
Lozano resided in Bagnaia, Viterbo. She died in Lorca on 7 February 2022, at the age of 90, one week before her 91st birthday.
Recognition
In May 2015 she was named Doctor honoris causa by the Universidad de Murcia.
Prizes include:
Best actress National Syndicate of the Show in Un ángel tuvo la culpa (1960).
Best Supporting Actress ACE (New York) in La mitad del cielo (1986).
Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes 2018, granted by the government of Spain.
Filmography
Younger Brother (1953)
Manicomio (1954)
High Fashion (1954) - Lina
Rapsodia de sangre (1958) - Isabel
Giovane canaglia (1958) - signorina Nicheli
Diego Corrientes (1959)
El Lazarillo de Tormes (1959) - Antona
Un ángel tuvo la culpa (1960)
Don Lucio y el hermano Pío (1960) - (uncredited)
Viridiana (1961) - Ramona
El hombre del expreso de Oriente (1962)
Teresa de Jesús (1962)
Los farsantes (1963) - Tina
Noche de verano (1963) - Novia de Pedro
El sol en el espejo (1963) - Engracia
Los Tarantos (1963) - Isabel
Un demonio con ángel (1963) - Sor Angustias
Los felices sesenta (1963)
El precio de un asesino (1963) - Beatriz Morales
A Fistful of Dollars (1964) - Doña Consuelo Baxter
Crimen (1964) - Doña Emilia
Amador (1966) - (uncredited)
Después del gran robo (1967)
15 Scaffolds for a Murderer (1967) - Mrs. Cook, the Widow
Sardinia Kidnapped (1968) - Marras' mother
Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl (1968) - Bianca
The Lady of Monza (1969) - Sister Benedetta Homati
That Splendid November (1969) - Amalia
Pigsty (1969) - Madame Klotz
Baltagul (1969) - Vitoria Lipan
The President of Borgorosso Football Club (1970) - Erminia
La vacanza (1971) - Ra
Un día en la vida (1973)
The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) - Concetta
Kaos (1984) - Mariagrazia (segment "L'altro figlio")
The Mass Is Ended (1985) - Don Giulio's Mother
Jean de Florette (1986) - Baptistine
Half of Heaven (1986) - Abuela
Manon des Sources (1986) - Baptistine
The Moro Affair (1986) - Nora Moro
Good Morning, Babylon (1987) - The Venetian
Barbablù, Barbablù (1987) - Adele
Burro (1989) - Madre di Burro
The Sun Also Shines at Night (1990) - Sergio's Mother
Mima (1991) - Grandma
El infierno prometido (1992) - Remedios Luz
Con gli occhi chiusi (1994)
Nos miran (2002) - Luisa
Octavia (2002) - Doña
Napoleon and Me (2006) - Pascalina (final film role)
References
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1931 births
2022 deaths
People from Tétouan
Spaghetti Western actresses
Spanish film actresses
Spanish television actresses
20th-century Spanish actresses
21st-century Spanish actresses