Actress Pilar Bardem, mother of actor Javier Bardem, died this weekend at the age of 82, this was announced by his three children through a statement.
“We want to share the news that our mother, our example, has passed away. She has gone in peace, without suffering and surrounded by the love of her loved ones. We know of the affection and admiration that many people felt for her, inside and outside of Spain, for the actress and the fighter and always supportive person that she was. We are grateful with all our hearts for that love towards our mother, ”the family statement reads.
According to the EFE news agency, Pilar Bardem died because she could not overcome “a respiratory crisis” for which she had been admitted to a hospital in Madrid for several days. It is known that she was a compulsive smoker for years was diagnosed with lung cancer.
Who was Pilar Bardem?
Pilar Bardem was the leader of the Bardem dynasty, since She was the sister of Juan Antonio Bardem and the mother of Carlos, Mónica and the renowned Hollywood actor Javier Bardem.
The actress participated in more than eighty films and began in the cinema in the mid-1960s. One of his most remembered titles is “No one will talk about us until we are dead”, by Agustín Díaz Yanes and for which she won the Goya for best supporting actress in 1995.
Other of his films are “Carne Trémula” (1997) by Pedro Almodóvar, “Sin noticias de Dios” (2000); “María Querida” (2004) “Alatriste” (2006); or “Rey Gitano”, in which it was one of his last performances in 2015.
Celebrities fire Pilar Bardem
The actress Pilar Bardem left a great hole in the artistic world, as politicians and artists both Spanish and international mourned her death.
Such is the case of Penelope Cruz, who was his daughter-in-law, as she is married to Javier Bardem. Penelope wrote an emotional message to fire the actress.
“I look at this photo and wonder what our reaction would have been if someone had told us at the time that fate had wonderful plans to unite us beyond the cinema. That that birth with Pedro was also a rehearsal of life itself … You were always so good to me! You cannot dream of a better mother-in-law, “the message reads, accompanied by a series of photographs by Pilar Bardem.
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