Actor Eusebio Poncela died at the age of 79
The Madrileña, who has been linked to the performance for nearly seven decades, was nominated for the Goya Award for Best Actress in 2001.
Actor Eusebio Poncela, the protagonist of Pedro Almodóvar's La ley del deseo , died this Wednesday at the age of 79, according to the Academy of Cinema.
The veteran Spanish actor, producer and screenwriter, was nominated in 2001 for the Goya Award for Best Actorfor his film Intacto .
In addition to a painter, he has spent nearly 70 years in theatre, cinema and television, starring, among others, the series Los gozos y las sombras, Las aventuras de Pepe Carvalho y Aguila roja , as well as Esto no es La casa de Bernarda Alba y El beso de la mujer araña .
He said in an interview that in his professional life he had been censored "for the faggot, for the poor, for the artist, for the junkie." He was born in Madrid on 15 September 1945 and grew up in the middle of the Franco dictatorship in the working-class neighbourhood of Vallecas.
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