July 17, 2021
Pilar Bardem, winner of a Goya and member of a saga of filmmakers has died at 82.
Pilar Bardem, winner of a Goya for best supporting actress for her role in ‘Nobody Will Talk About Us When We are Dead’, she died this Saturday at the Ruber clinic in Madrid at the age of 82, she was one of the most recognized interpreters of Spanish cinema, with more than six decades of career.
Pilar Bardem Muñoz, member of a family of actors and film directors; sister of Juan Antonio Bardem and mother of Carlos, Mónica and Oscar winner Javier Bardem, was born on March 14, 1939 in Seville.
She studied medicine that she then dropped out of to start an acting career at the beginning of the seventies, with small roles in theater, cinema, television and zarzuela.
Throughout her career she participated in 81 films, 43 plays and 31 television series.
It is in the world of cinema where she was most successful. Debuted with ‘The World Goes On’ (1964), by Fernando Fernán Gómez, and he also shot films such as ‘The Iberian’ (1971) by Pedro Masó, “Carne tremula” (1997) by Pedro Almodóvar or the film by Agustín Díaz Yanes “No One Will Talk About Us When We are Dead” (1995), for which ahe received the Goya for best supporting actress.
Her last film appearances were in ‘A World for Julius’ (2008), the adaptation of Knister’s children’s book-saga ‘Kika Superbruja’ (2009), ‘Life Begins Today’ (2010) and ‘The Gypsy King’ (2015).
In theater she stood out for her representation of Aristophanes’s ‘Lysistrata’ at the Mérida Theater (1991), ‘Carnival Tuesday’ (1995) or ‘Suspicion’ (2007).
For television, she played Dolores Ávila in a chapter of the TVE series ‘The Footprint of crime’, she also collaborated in series such as ‘Ketty Does Not Stop’ (1997), ‘Open 24 hours’ (2000) and ‘Love in Scrambled Times’ (2005).
She was president of the AISGE, Association of Artists, Interpreters, Management Society, created to protect the intellectual property of the audiovisual sector.
In 2008 s received the Gold Medal for Merit to the Fine Arts.
In addition to numerous tributes throughout her life, including those of the Andalusian Film Writers Association (1998), the Vitoria International Film Festival (2003) or the ‘Heart of gold’, a statuette created by the artist Ángel Aragonés in honor of her career.
She also has other awards such as the award for best actress at the Valladolid Film Festival for her role as María Zambrano in ‘María querida’ (2004), the Lorenzo Luzuriaga del Corral de Comedias de Almagro award (2006) and the award of the San Sebastián Film and Human Rights Festival (2007).
Books appeared on her life, profession and left-wing ideology ‘The Commitment to Coherence’ (2002) and ‘La Bardem: My memories’ (2005).
In the 2004 European Parliament Elections, She stood on the list of United Left (IU) and she actively participated in the presentation of the training to the 2007 elections in the Belmez (Córdoba) town hall.
The actress suffered from serious respiratory problems since 2013 when she was admitted for a serious insufficiency in the Ruber International Hospital from Madrid, after arriving from Mexico.
BARDEM, Pilar (Pilar Bardem Muñoz)
Born: 3/14/1939, Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain
Died: 7/17/2021, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Pilar Bardem’s western – actress:
Al este del Oeste - 1983 (Martha Tafford)
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