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Biography
Margarita Lozano (born 14 February 1931 in Tetuan) is a Spanish-born actress known for her career in Italian films. She has worked for Luis Buñuel in Viridiana, Sergio Leone in A Fistful of Dollars, Pier Paolo Pasolini in Pigsty, the Taviani brothers in The Night of the Shooting Stars, Kaos and Good Morning Babylon; Nanni Moretti in La messa è finita; and in Claude Berri's diptych Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources.
She worked with the theater director Miguel Narros in Fedra, by Miguel de Unamuno (1957); Three Sisters, by Anton Chekhov (1960); Fröken Julie, by August Strindberg (1961); La camisa, by Lauro Olmo (1962); El caballero de Olmedo, by Lope de Vega and La dama duende, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
She returned in 1988 with Miguel Narros in the plays Long Day's Journey into Night, by Eugene O'Neill, and La vita che ti diedi, by Luigi Pirandello. In 2007 she made her last appearance in the play La casa de Bernarda Alba, by Federico García Lorca, directed by Amelia Ochandiano.
In May 2015 she was named Doctor honoris causa by the Universidad de Murcia. She resides in a tomato plant in Bagnaia, Viterbo.
Filmography
- Younger Brother (1953)
- Manicomio (1954)
- Alta costura (1954) - Lina
- Rapsodia de sangre (1958) - Isabel
- Giovane canaglia (1958) - signorina Nicheli
- Diego Corrientes (1959)
- El Lazarillo de Tormes (1959) - Antona
- Un ángel tuvo la culpa (1960)
- Don Lucio y el hermano Pío (1960) - (uncredited)
- Viridiana (1961) - Ramona
- El hombre del expreso de Oriente (1962)
- Teresa de Jesús (1962)
- Los farsantes (1963) - Tina
- Noche de verano (1963) - Novia de Pedro
- El sol en el espejo (1963) - Engracia
- Los Tarantos (1963) - Isabel
- Un demonio con ángel (1963) - Sor Angustias
- Los felices sesenta (1963)
- El precio de un asesino (1963) - Beatriz Morales
- A Fistful of Dollars (1964) - Doña Consuelo Baxter
- Crimen (1964) - Doña Emilia
- Amador (1966) - (uncredited)
- Después del gran robo (1967)
- 15 Scaffolds for a Murderer (1967) - Mrs. Cook, the Widow
- Sardinia Kidnapped (1968) - Marras' mother
- Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl (1968) - Bianca
- The Lady of Monza (1969) - Sister Benedetta Homati
- That Splendid November (1969) - Amalia
- Pigsty (1969) - Madame Klotz
- Baltagul (1969) - Vitoria Lipan
- Il presidente del Borgorosso Football Club (1970) - Erminia
- La vacanza (1971) - Ra
- Un día en la vida (1973)
- The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) - Concetta
- Kaos (1984) - Mariagrazia (segment "L'altro figlio")
- The Mass Is Ended (1985) - Don Giulio's Mother
- Jean de Florette (1986) - Baptistine
- Half of Heaven (1986) - Abuela
- Manon des Sources (1986) - Baptistine
- The Moro Affair (1986) - Nora Moro
- Good Morning, Babylon (1987) - The Venetian
- Barbablù, Barbablù (1987) - Adele
- Burro (1989) - Madre di Burro
- The Sun Also Shines at Night (1990) - Sergio's Mother
- Mima (1991) - Grandma
- El infierno prometido (1992) - Remedios Luz
- Con gli occhi chiusi (1994)
- Nos miran (2002) - Luisa
- Octavia (2002) - Doña
- Napoleon and Me (2006) - Pascalina (final film role)