Mexican actress Silvia Pinal, muse of Spanish-Mexican filmmaker Luis Buñuel and with an outstanding career in television and theater, left the hospital where she had been admitted on Wednesday after testing positive for Covid-19, her family reported.
Pinal, 90 years old and one of the last divas of Mexican cinema, left the private hospital where she was admitted last Thursday with mild symptoms of Covid-19One of his daughters, also actress Silvia Pasquel, told Millennium television.
“It was decided that instead of moving her to another therapy room, move her home (…). It was a doctor’s decision because her health is very stable and her diagnosis is very mild,” said Pasquel.
He explained that his mother, who was vaccinated against Covid-19She is “super fine” and that at home she will have the same care as in the hospital.
The family decided to admit her after presenting an abrupt drop in her heart rate. In the hospital she was diagnosed with Covid-19.
As Pasquel told Mexican media, Pinal would have been infected with Covid-19 after being present at a recording of his other daughter, the rocker Alejandra Guzman.
Pinal, whose extensive career began in the theater and film in the late 1940s, achieved his consecration as the protagonist of a trilogy of films by Buñuel: Viridiana (1961), The Exterminating Angel (1962) and Simón del Desierto (1964 ).
On television, she was the star of variety shows and soap operas, but rose to fame with new audiences as host and producer of “Woman, Real Life Cases,” which ran from 1985 to 2007.
In recent years she has had sporadic participation in film, theater and television, in addition to being active as a union leader and activist of the Mexican actors and interpreters union.
He was married four times and had four children.
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