Ana María Noé

Ana María Noé (1914 – 9 July 1970) was a Spanish actress.

Biography

Ana María Noé began her artistic career in Barcelona and began to gain prominence after the Spanish Civil War. By 1940 she had her own company with which she performed Lo increíble (1940), El nido ajeno [es] (1941), and Vidas cruzadas [es] (1942), all by Jacinto Benavente and Enric Guitart.

In 1942 she premiered Time and the Conways by J. B. Priestley in Spain, at Teatro María Guerrero, followed by Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino [es] with Alfonso Muñoz [es] at the Teatro Español, Hay una mujer de diferencia (1944), and Las de Caín [es] (1945). In the early 1950s she joined the company of the Teatro Español, under the direction of José Tamayo, and premiered great literary plays such as Dialogues of the Carmelites [es] by Georges Bernanos (1954), Six Characters in Search of an Author by Pirandello (1955), Proceso de Jesús [es] by Diego Fabbri (1956), The Crucible by Arthur Miller (1956), The Diary of Anne Frank (1957), Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner (1957), Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla (1958), and Un soñador para un pueblo [es] by Antonio Buero Vallejo (1958). In the early 1960s she left the Teatro Español, but maintained her theatrical activity with hits such as Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill (1960), La dama del alba by Alejandro Casona (1962), and La pechuga de la sardina [es] by Lauro Olmo [es] (1964).

She debuted in the cinema and acted in 20 films, some of them Spaghetti Westerns in the 1960s. In that decade she also had a prominent presence on television, with appearances on shows such as Novela [es] and Estudio 1.