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If someone pronounces the name of Mara del Pilar Cuesta Acosta it probably doesn’t sound like anything to you, but things change if it is reduced to two simple words, Ana Beln (70). The former prodigy who with only 10 years left her mouth open Bobby Deglan on Radio Espaa ended up being one of the artistic referents in Castilian language. It is said that when the announcer saw and heard her, he could not repress himself: “Look at her, daughter of a caretaker and it seems that her mother was the Duchess of Alba. “Her mother was the caretaker of the building in which they lived in the Lavapis neighborhood and his father, a cook at the Palace hotel.
Next to Fernando Rey protagonist Zampo and me (1966), from whose character he took his stage name. But after the failure of the film, he plunged into the underworld of Narros and the Spanish Theater. That gave him enough tables enough to become one of the most versatile artists of the last half century.
Ana Beln and Vctor Manuel met in A Corua in the summer of 1971. He was on tour with Julio Iglesias and she starred in the play Taste of Honey. Neither was yet a star. Ana’s partner, Trini Alonso, introduced her to Julio, who knew exactly who it was because he had refused to star the movie Life goes on (1969) in which Charo Lopez took his place.
Oddly enough, the wedding of Ana Beln and Vctor Manuel was somewhat surreal. In Spain they could not marry civilly, They tried to go to Biarritz, but they did not have French nationality and finally they were lucky enough to do so and Gibraltar in 1972. There, John Lennon and Yoko Ono had been married three years earlier. His brother-in-law tried to take the photos, but you forgot to put the reel, so the only snapshot that exists from that moment is from outside the courthouse. Wedding night in Tangier. It did not take long for the sons. Vctor was born in 1975, he is a professional musician after dropping out of chemistry and computer science studies and the only one who has made them double grandparents, Olivia (11) and Len (6). Marina came to the world in 1983, She was a showgirl for her parents and today she is an actress.
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Communist militancy Ana Beln and her husband took their toll on them even though they called her “the smile of the PCE”. They came to put two pumps in your home. Fortunately, there was no personal injury to regret. “They were people from Fuerza Nueva and their only objective was to destroy,” he confessed to YoDona a few years ago. With her husband she has achieved great successes, such as Agapim, Alcal’s door O The wall. Unforgettable were his tours with The pleasure is our next to their intimates Miguel Ros and Joan Manuel Serrat.
Ana Beln has always preserved its privacy so that it was not in the mouths of others, he has never marketed his private life and usually puts bad face when he sees the paparazzi or some journalist he wants to pry more than necessary. On one occasion, Vctor Manuel broke the camera of a photographer and Ana Beln threw two others off the motorcycle. Your place of magical disconnection is his house in Menorca, where they enjoy pleasant talks with great friends such as Joan Manuel Serrat, Mercedes Mil o Iaki Gabilondo and his wife Lola. Also they adore Cartagena de Indias, where they usually go at Christmas and then move to the Rosario Islands. Ana Beln hates cooking, she has never been interested. So when they are not on tour, Vctor takes care of the purchase and from the stove.
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Cinema, theater, series, concerts, recordings … Nothing has resisted him. In the collective memory are Fortunata and Jacinta (1980), Faran’s court (1985), Medea (2015-2016) and Antony and Cleopatra (2021). Has three Ondas awards, the Goya de Honor, two ACE (New York Entertainment Writers Association) awards and four Fotogramas de Plata, among others. Tonight go to The Hormiguero 3.0 to promote Eva vs. Eva, a version of the classic by Bette Davis,Naked eva (1950).
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