Lola Gaos

In 1939, during the Spanish civil war, moved to South America with his family. Here he began his career as a theatre actress, which went on in Spain in the companies of Mercedes Prendes, Mary Carrillo and Guillermo Marín. His film debut was in 1949, that of television to 1957, while on the stage he in the classics of the modern theatre comeGli spectra of Ibsen and Woyzeck by Büchner, coming to form their own company. Relegated because of his physical bony, and his tone of voice hoarse and deep roles as a character actor, he played often figures left (witches, ruffiane serves), cimentatandosi also in the horror genre. Its international fame is due to the two films with Luis Buñuel, who gave her the role of a beggar in Viridiana, and that of Saturn, the old nurse the saturation soured, in Tristana. Besides Buñuel, has worked with numerous authors, in France and Spain, such as Juan Antonio Bardem, Jesús Franco, Jacinto Molina eJosé Luis Borau. It was the sister of Vicente Gaos (Valencia, 1919 - ibid., 1980), poet and essayist, José Gaos (1900 - 1969), a philosopher, and Alejandro Gaos, the poet.