Cuban actor Mario Balmaseda, with a renowned artistic career spanning more than 50 years, died this Saturday in Havana at the age of 81. “The sad news, communicated to ICAIC by his relatives, deprives us of one of the great personalities of our cinema, theater and television,” said a statement published by the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC).
“Perhaps for the youngest, it does not mean what for my generation it was a paradigm. Thank you, Mario for everything you taught and for that acting legacy that you leave us,” he wrote in his profile of Facebook actor Hector Noas. While the playwright Norge Espinosa pointed out that “and His face will endure in our memory, in that of so many Cuban men and women who were his audience”.
“Perhaps for the youngest, it does not mean what for my generation it was a paradigm. Thank you, Mario for everything you taught and for that acting legacy you leave us”
Balmaseda received the 2021 National Film Award in March of this year, the most important film award given in Cuba, “for his versatility and career in the seventh art, theater and television.”
The long professional career of the octogenarian performer includes his participation in films such as The man from Maisinicu (1973), is swapped (1984), Baragua (1986), between cyclones (2002), and other classics of Cuban cinema.
The actor, who studied Dramaturgy at the National Theater of Cuba and in the then German Democratic Republic, also won the National Theater Award in 2006 and the Television Award in 2019, which made him, according to Icaic, the only Cuban actor in obtain the three most important awards in the acting field on the Island.
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