Elisa Montés
Spanish actress (1934–2024) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elisa Rosario Ruiz Penella[1] (15 December 1934 – 9 October 2024), known as Elisa Montés, was a Spanish actress who took her pseudonym from the celebrated work of her grandfather, Manuel Penella, El gato montés.
Elisa Montés | |
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| Born | Elisa Rosario Ruiz Penella 15 December 1934 Granada, Spain |
| Died | 9 October 2024 (aged 89) Madrid, Spain |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse | Antonio Ozores |
| Father | Ramón Ruiz Alonso |
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Montés was the sister of actresses Emma Penella (1931–2007) and Terele Pávez (1939–2017), daughter of Magdalena Penella Silva and the politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso, and granddaughter and great-granddaughter to composers Manuel Penella and Manuel Penella Raga. In May 1960, she married actor Antonio Ozores.[2] The daughter of this marriage, Emma Ozores, also pursued an acting career. Montés and Ozores separated in 1968.[3]
On 12 October 2017 she received the ASFAAN award by Alberto Dell'Acqua and Emma Ozores.[4][5][6]
Montés died in Madrid on 9 October 2024, at the age of 89.[7][8]
- Eleven Pairs of Boots (1954)
- Noi siamo le colonne (1956)
- The Battalion in the Shadows (1957)
- Faustina (1957)
- Gibraltar (1964)
- Django the Condemned (1965)
- Samson and His Mighty Challenge (1965)
- I due toreri (1965)
- Erik, the Viking (1965)
- Texas, Adios (1966)
- Return of the Seven (1966)
- Seven Dollars on the Red (1966)
- Mutiny at Fort Sharpe (1966)
- Maneater of Hydra (1967)
- The Cobra (1967)
- 99 Women (1969)
- The Girl from Rio (1969)
- Captain Apache (1971)
- Ambitious (1976)
- Valladolid Festival. Best actress for La vida en un bloc (1956).
- Prize of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers (1955). Best supporting actress for Últimas banderas.
- Prize of the National Syndicate of the Spectacle for Abiciosa (1975).
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