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Rosa María Sardà
2012
Born	Rosa María Sardà Támaro (1941-07-30)30 July 1941 Barcelona, Spain
Died	11 June 2020(2020-06-11) (aged 78) Barcelona, Spain
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1969–2020

Rosa María Sardà i Támaro (30 July 1941 – 11 June 2020) was a Spanish actress. Her career in theater ranks her as one of the leading actresses of the Spanish scene.

Early life

Sardà was born in Barcelona in 1941, and grew up in the Sant Andreu district of the capital, where her career as a stage actress began. She was the elder sister of the journalist and writer Xavier Sardà [es].

Career

Self-taught, Sardà began to do amateur theater in her hometown, Horta. In 1962, she made the leap to professional theater in the Dora Santacreu and Carlos Lucena company with the play Cena de matrimonios by Alfonso Paso; she then moved to the Alejandro Ulloa company and, later, to that of Pau Garsaball, with the work En Baldiri de la Costa. In the 1970s, she starred in various theatre productions, such as The House of Bernarda Alba.

Later, she worked in television, in 1975, starring in Una vella, coneguda olor, by Josep Maria Benet i Jornet and in 1979, leading the program Festa amb Rosa Maria Sardà. She also started doing movies with El vicari d'Olot (1981), by Ventura Pons.

During the 1980s, she presented the television show Ahí te quiero ver.

In 1993, she starred in Why Do They Call It Love When They Mean Sex?, for which she won the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress. The next year she was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi, but she later returned it in 2017 (see personal life section).

In 2001, she starred in No Shame, for which she again won the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress. The next year, she starred in the comedy My Mother Likes Women. In 2005, she starred in the television series Abuela de verano. Her son, Pol Mainat, starred alongside her.

In 2010, she was awarded a Gold Medal from the Spanish Film Academy. In 2016, she was awarded the Feroz de Honor (Feroz of Honour). She was due to receive the Fotogramas de Plata award in 2020, but the ceremony was cancelled.

She hosted the Goya Awards gala three times throughout her career. Critic Javier Zurro has considered her the best host in the history of the awards.

Personal life

Sardà was married to Josep Maria Mainat [es], a member of the comedy group La Trinca [es]. In 1975 they had a son Pol Mainat, who also become an actor. Sardà and Mainat divorced circa 2002.

Sardà was always a politically committed person. She defined herself as “radically republican, federalist and socialist." In 2017, Sardà returned her Creu de Sant Jordi award, one of the highest decorations of the Catalonian Government, due to her opposition to the Catalan "procés" and the corruption scandal of former Catalan president Jordi Pujol.

In 2014, Sardà was diagnosed with lymphoma, and later took a hiatus from acting. She died from the disease on 11 June 2020 in Barcelona, aged 78.

Selected filmography

Theatre

Her career at theatre was prolific, below some notable works:

Actress

• 1964: Los cinco minutos de Margot by Louis Verneuil. Premiered at Teatre Guimerà (Barcelona).
• 1968: Las noches bajas de Ana o mi marido tiene un turca, by Rafael Richart. At Teatre Victòria (Barcelona).
• 1976: Roses roges per a mi by Sean O'Casey
• 1976: Terra baixa by Àngel Guimerà
• 1978: Tot esperant Godot by Samuel Beckett
• 1978: Sopa de pollastre amb ordi by Arnold Wesker
• 1979: Quan la ràdio parlava de Franco by Josep Maria Benet i Jornet
• 1980: El balcó by Jean Genet
• 1982: Duet per a un sol violí by Tom Kempinski.
• 1982: Yo me bajo en la próxima, ¿y usted? by 'Adolfo Marsillach
• 1985: Mare Coratge by Bertolt Brecht
• 1992: L'hostal de la Glòria by Josep Maria de Sagarra
• 2004: Wit by Margaret Edson
• 2009: La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca
• 2012: Dubte by John Patrick Shanley

Director

• 1989: Ai carai, by Josep Maria Benet i Jornet
• 1994: Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell
• 1994: Fugaç by Josep Maria Bernet i Jornet
• 1996: El visitant by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
• 1999: Cantonada Brossa, jointly with Josep Maria Mestres, Josep Muntanyès i Lluís Pasqual. Crítica de Barcelona award

Awards and honors

Notes

1. In a 2016 El Pais profile it is stated that it was a marriage "without papers".

References

1. ^ "Rosa Maria Sardà i Tàmaro". Enciclopèdia catalana (in Catalan). Retrieved 11 June 2020.
2. ^ "Muere la actriz Rosa María Sardá a los 78 años". RTVE.es (in Spanish). 11 June 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
3. "Rosa María Sardà, su vida familiar: un exmarido indepe, un hijo actor y su relación con Xavier". El Español (in Spanish). 11 June 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
4. ^ "Rosa Maria Sardà". Institut del Teatre (in Catalan). Retrieved 13 June 2020.
5. "Rosa Maria Sardà, "Honorato, ¿apagamos la tele?"". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 11 June 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
6. "Ahí te quiero ver". RTVE.es (in Spanish). 16 November 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
7. ^ "Televisor apagado, telón bajado, fundido a negro...¡Ha muerto la Sardà!". RTVE.es (in Spanish). 11 June 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
8. ^ "Rosa María Sardá recibe la Medalla de Oro de la Academia de Cine de España". RTVE.es (in Spanish). 8 July 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
9. "Abuela de verano – Web oficial". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 June 2020.
10. Sánchez, Javi (11 June 2020). "Pol Mainat, el único hijo de Rosa María Sardà: actuó con ella, la dirigió, y estuvo a su lado hasta el final". Vanity Fair (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 June 2020.
11. "Rosa María Sardá, la mejor presentadora de la historia de los Premios Goya". El Español (in Spanish). 11 June 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
12. "La discreta vida privada de Rosa María Sardà: su hijo Pol Mainat, la muerte de su hermano Juan y su divorcio". ElHuffPost (in Spanish). 11 June 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
13. Sorolla, José A. (11 June 2020). "Rosa Maria Sardà: republicana, socialista, federalista y beligerante contra el 'procés'". El periódico (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 June 2020.
14. Coixet, Isabel (19 November 2017). "Tribuna | Rosa y Sant Jordi". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
15. Torres, Rosana (4 December 2018). "Entrevista | Rosa María Sardá: "Tengo más sentido del humor que del honor"". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
16. Román, Manuel (14 April 2020). "El cáncer que apartó de todo a Rosa María Sardá". Chic (in European Spanish). Retrieved 11 June 2020.
17. "Muere la actriz Rosa María Sardà a los 78 años de edad víctima de un cáncer que padecía". Castilla-La Mancha 24 (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 June 2020.
18. Rosa Maria Sardà works and awards (pdf in Spanish)
19. "Premis FAD Sebastià Gasch d'Arts Parateatrals". www.premisfadsebastiagasch.org. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
20. "Premi memorial Margarida Xirgu". margaritaxirgu.es (in Catalan). Retrieved 12 June 2020.
21. "DECRET 100/1994, de 3 de maig, de concessió de les Creus de Sant Jordi de la Generalitat de Catalunya". Portal Jurídic de Catalunya (in Catalan). 11 May 1994. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
22. "Awards | Gestmusic". www.gestmusic.es. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
23. "Laia Marull, Luis Tosar, Loles León, Antonio Resines, Rosa María Sardá y Javier Camará, ganadores de Fotogramas de Plata" (in Spanish). Europa Press. 9 March 2004. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
24. "Rosa María Sardà, Max de Honor 2015". Publico.es (in Spanish). 25 March 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
25. "Honorary Gaudí Award – Miquel Porter 2016". Academia del cinema (in Catalan). Retrieved 11 June 2020.

External links

• Rosa Maria Sardà at IMDb
• Rosa Maria Sardà at AllMovie
• Rosa Maria Sardà works and awards (pdf in Spanish) (Archived)

• 1941 births
• 2020 deaths
• 20th-century Spanish actresses
• 21st-century Spanish actresses
• Actresses from Barcelona
• Deaths from cancer in Spain
• Deaths from lymphoma
• Spanish women comedians
• Spanish television presenters
• Best Supporting Actress Goya Award winners
• Spanish women television presenters
• Film actresses from Catalonia
• Television actresses from Catalonia
• Comedians from Barcelona