Argentine actress Lydia Lamaison

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Lydia Lamaison is an Argentinean actress, film and theater legend. In Russia, she became famous thanks to her participation in the television series Wild Angel, popular in the 90s, where she played the role of Donna Angelica Di Carlo, Millie's grandmother.

Dynasty of centenarians

Lydia Lamaison was born in the year of the outbreak of the First World War (1914) in the Argentine province of Mendoza, but almost immediately after her birth, the family moved to Buenos Aires, which allowed Lydia to consider herself a “metropolitan thing” all her life.

The actress herself did not like to talk about her family, she abruptly stopped all attempts by journalists to find out something about her parents or her only sister. It is only known for certain that her grandmother passed away at the age of 98, and her mother - 92 years. Lydia dreamed of “surpassing” them, but she never managed to “beat the record” of her grandmother - the actress died in 2012 at the age of 97.

Beginning her artistic career in 1939, Lydia Lamaison acted in countless theatrical productions, starred in 25 films, including The Gallant Cavalier '900 (1960), End of the Party (1960) I will talk about hope”(1966), for which she received awards for best actress.

Erotism at 89

With all the richness and diversity of her biography, real fame came to Lydia Lamaison at an already mature age. She was actively invited to play the roles of cunning, wise, and sometimes treacherous old ladies.

Until the very last days, the actress maintained a clear mind, a phenomenal memory that allows her to easily memorize stage monologues, and good he alth.

At the age of 90, Lydia was working full-time, sincerely surprised by young actors who said that working on television or in the theater bored them.

I never get tired. And do you know why? I don't consider what I do as work. Work is something that requires effort, and I get pure pleasure. Besides, I'm perfectly he althy. Occasionally there are only colds and headaches.

(From an interview with Argentina's Clarin)

According to the memoirs of contemporaries, once back in the 60s, the actress read that walking up the stairs is useful, and for 44 years she did not use the elevator, despite the fact that her apartment was on the third floor.

The fact that in 2003, at the age of 89, Lydia wrote the script for the play “What is eroticism”, dedicated, as you might guess, to the theme of eroticism and sex, speaks about the never-ending youth of the soul.

Don't call me grandma

The actress never allowed herself to be called a grandmother, noting that she has nephews, great-nephews and other relatives, butshe is not a grandmother to them or to anyone else. Once on the street, a passer-by called her “the same grandmother from TV”, to which Lydia replied: “In the TV program, yes, I am a grandmother, but in real life I am not her and I ask you not to call me that. It seems indecent to me to call strangers on the street “grandmothers.”

During her long life, Lydia Lamaison has received many different awards, including being awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires", and in 2004 her name was immortalized in the Blue Hall of the National Congress of Argentina.

Without a doubt, Lydia Lamaison can be called one of the most significant figures of the Argentine theater, cinema and television, but we will always remember her as a charismatic old lady from the series "Wild Angel".