Actress Maria Rosario Omaggio, star of ‘La lozana andaluza’, dies

The actress Maria Rosaria Homage,protagonist of the Spanish film ‘The Lush Andalusian’ by Vicente Escriváhas died at the age of 67, leaving behind a professional career that included nearly thirty films.

“Dear Maria Rosaria, you left us. You have begun your new journey towards the spirituality you loved so much. You were a loving friend, a beautiful and cultured woman.“, says the official Instagram account of the Italian interpreter.

Her big screen debut came in 1976 in Umberto Lenzi’s ‘Roma a mano armada’, although her big hit was Andrzej Wajda’s ‘Walesa – The Man of Hope’, which was presented at the 70th Venice Film Festival and in which she played the journalist Oriana Fallaci.

Thanks to this role, won the Francesco Pasinetti Prize at the 70th Venice Film Festival in 2013, the Oriana Fallaci Prize in 2014 and the Arechi d’Oro at the Salerno International Film Festival.Another notable title in which she appears is Woody Allen’s 2012 film ‘To Rome with Love’.

‘It was a dark and stormy night…’ by Alessandro Benvenuti, ‘Guido who challenged the Red Brigades’ by Giuseppe Ferrara, or ‘The Adventures of Hercules’, with Lou Ferrigno, are some of his works that in Spain are completed with ‘The Virgin of Visanteta’ and ‘Visanteta, be still’, both also by Vicente Escrivá.