In 2007, Sílvia Tortosa published a memoir entitled Mi vida oculta. However, few performers have had, despite what the book’s title says, a more public and notorious life than his. A multiple life, under the spotlight, including the presence in the magazines of the heart. The always attractive actress, who has died at the age of seventy-seven, shone with her own light throughout her long career, both in the theater and in film and television. She has been a cover girl; charismatic presenter of programs on the small screen, such as the unforgettable Applauso from the late seventies, and also tragically important at the service of renowned authors. He even got his own YouTube channel. She has been everything in front of the cameras, although for one it will always be La senyora, the drama that the actress starred in under the direction of Jordi Cadena in 1987, and in which she played with aplomb a woman obsessed with the death of her husband The Generalitat recognized her with a prize for this interpretation, just as it has always been recognized by the applause of the public.
Sílvia Tortosa’s career is extensive. After passing through the Escola Massana, in Barcelona, ??where she studied drawing, and trained as an actress at the Institut del Teatre in the same city, she began her career in front of the cameras at the behest of the ineffable Ignacio F. Iquino, with an eloquent title such as Carlos’s aunt in a miniskirt, filmed in 1966. Tortosa was barely 19 years old. It would then be followed by films with a clear commercial intent, increasingly leaning towards the so-called open-air cinema. With titles such as Clímax (1977) by Francisco Lara Polop, to give an example of those films that made her famous along with other actresses of the time, such as María José Cantudo or Bárbara Rey, as queens of exposure or, in a more political key, muses of the transition.
From the first period, Pánico en el Transiberiano (1972) by Eugenio Martin should be highlighted, a horror film in which Tortosa shared the lead with Christopher Lee, the best Dracula in history, and Peter Cushing, the best Sherlock Holmes. But it would be in the theater where he would cultivate a profession until making the transition to a more committed and artistically ambitious cinema, with titles such as Asignatura pendiente (1977), by Garci.
During all that time, she was no stranger to television in her double role as presenter and actress. As a presenter we have already remembered Applauso, who presented between the years 1978 and 1981, but what many of her contemporaries remember her for is her intervention in the always remembered Estudio 1, a television program dedicated to great theatre. He also participated in such popular series as Curro Jiménez, La huella de un crimen and Farmacia de guardia, among many others. In this same medium, she embodied Baroness Thyssen in Tita Cervera, the Baroness (2011). He never lost his versatility or his smile when tackling any role – any job – that came his way.
His hectic emotional life, especially in that Spain not used to freedom, marked his presence in the magazines of the heart. Her style as an actress, something much more fundamental for posterity, can be characterized by the word versatility. Sílvia Tortosa moved easily from dramatic roles to rather comic roles, even superficial ones. Expressiveness and emotionality also define her as a performer: two conditions that are framed in a dense tone of voice, prone to confidence. She has been an actress, in short, of fiery beauty. With a magnetic presence. Her qualities easily turn her into a mythical, unique being.
