{"id":424201,"date":"2024-11-29T19:40:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T19:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=424201"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Mexican-actor-Silvia-Pinal-dead-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Mexican-actor-Silvia-Pinal-dead-at-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican actor Silvia Pinal dead at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Silvia Pinal, a star of TV and theater, and considered the last diva of Mexican cinema, died Thursday at age 93, the Culture Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Pinal, a muse of the Spanish director Luis Bunuel, died in a hospital in Mexico City where she was admitted last week to be treated for a urinary tract infection.<\/p>\n<p>Mexican media said family and friends were with her at the end.<\/p>\n<p>During a career spanning more than six decades, Pinal played a nun in the Bunuel film &#8220;Viridiana,&#8221; which won the Palme d&#8217;or at the Cannes film festival in 1961.<\/p>\n<p>She appeared in two other films by the director who fled Spain after the civil war of the 1930s and eventually settled in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>These were &#8220;The Exterminating Angel&#8221; (1962) and &#8220;Simon of the Desert&#8221; (1965). Along with &#8220;Viridiana&#8221; they formed a trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>Pinal appeared in 84 movies and 42 plays, according to the media company Televisa-Univision, for which Pinal worked extensively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her legacy as an artist and her contribution to our culture are unforgettable,&#8221; Culture Minister Claudia Curiel de Icaza said on social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>Televisa-Univision called her one of the most emblematic figures of the golden age of Mexican cinema from 1940 to 1960.<\/p>\n<p>sem\/dw\/sco<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/8020b3ccdee70aa3be28e8d3b4064f67.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Mexican actor Silvia Pinal in Mexico City in 2008. Pinal, considered the last diva of Mexican cinema, died Thursday at age 93<\/p>\n<p>-LUIS ACOSTA<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Silvia Pinal, a star of TV and theater, and considered the last diva of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}