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Irasema Dilián (born Eva Irasema Warschalowska on May 27, 1924 in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil and died April 16, 1996, in Ceprano, Italy) was a Mexican actress.
Biography
Irasema Dilián was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Polish parents. She began her film career in Italy, having appeared in Vittorio de Sica's Maddalena, Zero in Condotta. Over the next few years she worked for de Sica, Riccardo Freda, and Mario Soldati, together with actors like Alida Valli and Rossano Brazzi.
She appeared in four Spanish films between the years 1946 and 1949 before moving to Mexico and making her debut in Muchachas de uniforme (Girls in Uniform, 1950), a remake of the 1931 German picture Mädchen in Uniform. In 1952, Dilián was nominated for an Ariel Award for Paraíso Robado. Over the next several years, Dilián starred in a number of important films with such major stars as Arturo de Córdova. Pedro Almendariz and Pedro Infante, and played the leading female role in Luis Buñuel's Abismos de pasión (1954).
Some of her Mexican films were scripted by her Italian husband, Arduino "Dino" Maiuri. Dilián's last Mexican-made film was Pablo y Carolina (1955), though she did appear in several co-productions in 1956. In 1958, she appeared in her last Spanish-speaking film.
Filmography
- La Muralla (1958)
- La Estrella del rey (1957)
- Pablo and Carolina (1957)
- Y si ella volviera (1957)
- Primavera en el corazón (1956)
- Historia de un abrigo de mink (1955)
- La Desconocida (1954)
- Un Minuto de bondad (1954)
- Abismos de pasión (1954)
- Dos mundos y un amor (1954)
- Las Infieles (1953)
- Fruto prohibido (1953)
- La Cobarde (1953)
- La Mujer que tu quieres (1952)
- Angélica (1952)
- Paraíso robado (1951)
- Muchachas de Uniforme (1951)
- Né de père inconnu (1950)
- Il Vedovo allegro(1950)
- Botta e risposta (1950)
- Women Without Names (1950)
- 39 cartas de amor (1949)
- The Courier of the King (1947)
- The Captain's Daughter (1947)
- Cuando llegue la noche (1946)
- Un Drama nuevo(1946)
- Black Eagle (1946)
- Cero en conducta (1945)
- Fuga a due voci (1943)
- Malombra (1942)
- La Principessa del sogno (1942)
- Violette nei capelli (1942)
- I Sette peccati (1942
- Teresa Venerdì (1941)
- Ore 9 lezione di chimica (1941)
- Ecco la felicità (1940)
- Maddalena, Zero for Conduct (1940)
