Cause of death Cancer Name Anna Lizaran Nationality Spanish Role Actress | Occupation Actress Siblings Lola Lizaran Years active 1976–2012 | |
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Notable work La placa del Diamant, Actrius, High Heels, Herois, Agost, Forasters, La Via Augusta, L'un per l'altre, Porca Miseria Movies Actrius, High Heels, La Celestina, Heroes, My First Night Similar People Ventura Pons, Gerardo Vera, Miguel Albaladejo, Pedro Almodovar |
Emma vilarasau i anna lizaran
Anna Lizaran (31 August 1944 – 12 January 2013) was a Catalan actress of stage, film and television.
Contents
- Emma vilarasau i anna lizaran
- Anna Lizaran Membre dHonor de lAcadmia del Cinema Catal
- Early life
- Career
- Death
- Theater
- Filmography
- References

Anna Lizaran, Membre d'Honor de l'Acadèmia del Cinema Català
Early life

Lizaran's father was a mechanic and her mother a dressmaker. She showed enormous interest in the theatre when she was a child and studied theatre in the Centre d'Estudis Experimentals of Barcelona and was one of the first members of Els Comediants. In 1974, she moved to Paris to study with the mime Jacques Lecoq.
Career

When Lizaran returned to Barcelona in 1976, she started working in the Teatre Lliure. She since starred in such celebrated Spanish movies as High Heels (together with co-star Penélope Cruz) and Actrius. In 1996, she directed the TV show Arsènic i puntes de coixí for television. In 2005, she performed the character Rosa for the second season of the TV3 sitcom L'un per l'altre.

In her later years she performed in the television series La Via Augusta (2007), the film Herois (2010), and her latest theater performance was for the Catalan adaptation of August: Osage County as Violet and broke records for the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya.
Death
Lizaran died in the Hospital Clínic, Barcelona on the morning of 12 January 2013 of cancer at age 68. The cancer was diagnosed three months before her death. She was unable to release her latest theater work, La Bête.