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Actress Alicia Hermida dies, Valentina in ‘Cuéntame’

The Madrid actress Alicia Hermida died this Wednesday morning at the age of 89 in a residence in Villanueva de la Cañada (Madrid) where she lived with her husband, also actor Jaime Losada. This has been reported by the Actors and dancers management Entity (AISGE) through its Twitter account.

One of her most iconic television roles is that of Valentina in Cuéntame cómo pasó. However, his career is mainly focused on the theater where he began in the 50s, and in cinema, with Maribel and the strange family (1960) as the first film.

In 2017 she was recognized with the Award For A Lifetime by the Union of Actors and Actresses, an act in which she remembered that she went on stage for the first time at age 13, in the play Plaza de Oriente, by Joaquín Calvo Sotelo, a staging that led her to her first theatrical tour at age 14.

The cast of the series ‘Cuéntame’.

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“I have had and I really want to work, but I have never had the greed to be on the front page,” acknowledged the actress who was also recently part of the cast of Paquita Salasby Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi.

Alicia Hermida debuted in the theater in the 50s and in cinema with ‘Maribel and the strange family’

The house of Bernarda Alba, Blood weddings, The prodigious shoemaker, The Salem witches, The Diary of Anne Frank, The altarpiece of don Cristóbal and The curse of the butterfly these are some of the texts that are part of his stage career.

Alicia Hermida, in a scene from 'Cuéntame'

Alicia Hermida, in a scene from ‘Cuéntame’

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He also performed Tennessee Williams ‘ play Cat on a hot zinc roof and in 1998 he worked under José Tamayo in Divine words from Valle-Inclán.


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