Elisa Montés died today Wednesday at the age of 89 in Madrid, according to the Union of Actors and Actresses on the social network The wild cat She took her stage name, since her real name was Elisa Ruiz Penella.
She was the companion of director António Ozores and the sister of actresses Emma Penella and Terele Pávez. His father, Ramón Ruiz Alonso, was a prominent Jonsista, deputy of the Second Republic, considered one of those responsible for the kidnapping and subsequent assassination of Federico García Lorca.
Her first film job was a role in the film Heleneby Jesús Pascual, in 1954. He was immediately noticed and soon got his first major job, at the age of 19, in the football drama Eleven pairs of bootsby Francisco Rovira. He has already left the big screen and has been a familiar face in films and television series for almost thirty years. In this way, his curriculum vitae exceeds sixty works both in cinema and television.
Their participation in The Last Flags, Ambitious either Battle of the Giantsand, in general, in several spaghetti western from the sixties, like Goodbye, Texas either Seven red dollars. It is precisely because of his work in this genre that he was recently honored.
His debut on television almost coincides with the birth of this medium in the State and he already appears in Tragedies of vulgar lifewhere she was accompanied by Antonio and José Luis Ozores. But her big media success came in the early 80s with the role of Carmen, the mother of Bea and Tito, in the series blue summer,a generational step for Spain which has definitively left Francoism behind.
Among his most recent film appearances is the film moon sea, with her sister Emma. On television, however, he could be seen in 2017 visiting his daughter – also actress Emma Ozores – while she was participating in that year’s edition. VIP Big Brother.
