According to the Culture Ministry, Silvia Pinal, a TV and theatre star who was regarded as the final diva of Mexican cinema, passed away on Thursday at the age of 93.
The Spanish director Luis Bunuel’s muse, Pinal, passed away in a Mexico City hospital last week after being admitted to receive treatment for a urinary tract infection.According to Mexican media, she ended up with family and friends.
Pinal portrayed a nun in the Bunuel film “Viridiana,” which took home the Palme d’Or at the 1961 Cannes film festival, during a career that lasted more than 60 years.
The filmmaker, who fled Spain following the 1930s civil war and later moved in Mexico, included her in two other films.
These were “The Exterminating Angel” (1962) and “Simon of the Desert” (1965). Along with “Viridiana” they formed a trilogy.
Pinal appeared in 84 movies and 42 plays, according to the media company Televisa-Univision, for which Pinal worked extensively.
“Her legacy as an artist and her contribution to our culture are unforgettable,” Culture Minister Claudia Curiel de Icaza said on social media platform X.
Televisa-Univision called her one of the most emblematic figures of the golden age of Mexican cinema from 1940 to 1960.
