Reuters, 28/02 00:55 CET
Barcelona, February 27 ( EFE ) .- The actress and theater director Rosa Novell has died today at age 61 after a long struggle with cancer, have informed Efe sources close to the family.
Last year, the actress has battled lung cancer that initially caused the loss of vision, which is not prevented him from taking the stage in November 2014 to play his last role. a stay-blind keys in the play “L’last trobada” directed by Abel Folk
Born in Barcelona in 1953, Novell has been one of the great actresses of the Catalan theater scene and directed productions also featured as “starting Fi” (2005), by Samuel Beckett and “Vells temps” (2006), by Harold Pinter.
Novell debuted on stage in 1974 with “Les Troianes” of Euripides and had since worked on numerous productions, among them “The Senyora Florentina i el seu amor Homer” (1995) and “The righteous woman” by Sándor Marai, his girlfriend, writer Eduardo Mendoza, adapted to it.
The actress also shared the stage on occasion with his brother, journalist and actor Queco Novell, who recited the correspondence between Eduard Toldrà and grandfather Manuel Clausells.
The theaters of his hometown welcomed his greatest hits on stage, including “Night of Molly Bloom” (2000), a monologue dramatized by José Sanchis Sinisterra from end of “Ulysses” Joyce, with whom he won the Best Actress Award Critics.
Throughout his career he received other prestigious awards, including the National Prize of Interpretation in 1988, the Creu de . Sant Jordi in 2007 and the armchair lifetime achievement award in 2014
He performed under the baton of the best directors like Georges Lavaudant, with whom he worked in “Coriolanus” (2002) by Shakespeare; Mario Gas, in “Zona Zero (2003)” by Neil LaBute; and Lluís Pasqual for “Mòbil” (2007), Sergi Belbel.
Actress scenic character and strength, played some great theatrical heroines, as Racine’s Phedre, or Shakespeare’s Cleopatra the protagonist of “The just donated” by Sandor Marai.
As a theater director took the baton in works such as Maria Rosa (1997) Angel Guimerà, “Les sàvies gifts” of Molière, “A ‘ encourages chiamata “Puccini,” Il Teatro alla Moda “B. Marcello (1999),” Greus Questions “(2004) and” No news from Gurb “(2008), by Eduardo Mendoza,” starting Fi “(2005) by Beckett, “Vells temps” (2006), by Harold Pinter and “Olga single” Joan Brossa, which won him the address Critics 1998.
In film, his last work was ” Rastres Sandal “, the winner of the last edition of the Gaudí Awards, where Novell played the adoptive mother of the protagonist film.
However, many Catalans will remember her for her appearances in series of successful TV3, as “Nissaga of power”, “Estació d’enllaç” or “El Cor de la Ciutat”.
In the last part of his life, and afflicted by illness, continued to work, as far as allowed him strength.
Acted at the Festival de Pollença with “Historia d’un soldat Stravinsky” with Biel Mesquida and Andres Lima, and participated in the filming of a mockumentary about Agusti Villaronga his person, mixing reality of everyday life with fiction testing a monologue.
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