Actress Silvia Pinal, a star of television and theater considered the last diva of Mexican cinema, has died at the age of 93, the Ministry of Culture said.
Pinal, the muse of Spanish director Luis Buñuel, died at a Mexico City hospital where she was admitted last week to be treated for a urinary tract infection.
Mexican media reported that family and friends were with her at the last minute.
During a career that spanned more than six decades, Pinal played a nun in Buñuel's film "Viridiana," which won the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.
She starred in two more films by the director, who fled Spain after the civil war in the 1930s and eventually settled in Mexico.
These are The Exterminating Angel (1962) and Simon of the Desert (1965). Together with Viridiana, they form a trilogy.
Pinal starred in 84 films and 42 plays, according to the media company Televisa-Univision, for which Pinal worked extensively.
"Her legacy as an artist and her contribution to our culture are unforgettable," Culture Minister Claudia Curiel de Icaza said on social media platform X.
Televisa-Univision called her one of the most iconic figures of the golden age of Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s | BGNES
