[News] Pilar Bardem, the strong woman of a family devoted to acting, dies

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Pilar Bardem (Seville, 1939-Madrid, 2021) made her film debut with a masterpiece, 'The world continues' (1965), by Fernando Fernán Gómez, a triumphant entry into an art that was in her blood. She is the daughter and mother of actors and the sister of a great director, Juan Antonio Bardem. Her parents were Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro. Her children Javier and Carlos, and even Mónica, less known, continued the tradition and carried the surname to Hollywood. The first two, above all, have time to overcome it, but today she is the most prolific of the family, with more than 130 titles between film and television.

 

Pilar herself died yesterday at the Ruber clinic in Madrid, at the age of 82, due to a lung disease not related to the coronavirus, according to the magazine 'Semana', which broke the news. The actress was a compulsive smoker, a factor that helped her extract her characteristic hoarse voice from her vocal cords, but which the rest of her body did not appreciate so much. Among her achievements, she highlights the Goya as best supporting actress for 'No one will talk about us when we are dead', a title that in her case could not be more false.

 

Half a century of career

The interpreter's last film, 'The Gypsy King', was released in 2015, half a century after 'The world goes on'. In those 50 years she did dozens of small roles, in most of her, in which she nevertheless was able to demonstrate her character, extending her off the screen, where she was known for her activism within the acting world.

Haute couture model during her youth, she did theater, film and television. On the boards, he composed some of his greatest characters, in works such as 'The red-hot lead float', by Francisco Nieva, and 'Las galas del defunto', by Valle-Inclán, according to the 'Dictionary of Spanish cinema' Film Academy, directed by José Luis Borau.

 

On the small screen, he was ahead of the fashion of series with titles such as 'The joys and shadows', 'Ramón y Cajal', 'The footprint of crime', and 'Central Brigade', some of which have nothing to envy the current ones. She also left her stamp on 'Lorca, muerte de un poeta' and 'El joven Picasso'. Already in this century, in which he continued working at a tireless pace, he participated in 'A step forward', 'To love is forever', 'Doctor Mateo', 'Central Hospital' and, of course, in 'Tell me how it happened' , among many others.

 

In the cinema, curiously, it was more difficult for him to attract attention, until Enrique Urbizu hit the key in 'Todo por la pasta' (1991). But it was again Fernán Gómez who offered her the best role of her, that of the bitter wife with an overwhelming personality, to put it mildly, of the also protagonist of 'Seven thousand days together' (1994).

 

A year later, she won the aforementioned Goya under Agustín Díaz Yanes. In 1995 she shot seven films and at the subsequent gala she received another 'big head', hers, her nephew, Miguel de ella, for the best short of her. There is no better summary of two of her hallmarks: a prolific career and infallible DNA.

 

Communication from your children

Her children, Carlos, Mónica and Javier, have sent a statement in which they express the following: «We want to share the news that Pilar Bardem, our mother, our example, has passed away. She has left in peace, without suffering and surrounded by the love of her loved ones. We know of the affection and admiration of her that many people felt for her, inside and outside of Spain, for the actress and the fighter and always supportive person that she was hers. We are grateful with all our hearts for her love for our mother. Thanks".