María Casares

What grabs me about Maria Casares is the arc: a girl from A Coruna who became one of the queens of the French stage. That kind of reinvention in exile takes nerve few performers ever summon. The roster of honors, from the Legion of Honour to the Moliere Award and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, tells me she was a fixture of the theatre rather than a fleeting film face. I find myself wishing I could have seen her live, because actors of her caliber tend to burn brightest in the room, not on celluloid. She earns my lasting respect.

Name (English)

María Casares

Name (Japanese)

マリア・カザレス

Reading

まりあ・かざれす

Born

November 21, 1922 – November 22, 1996

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dog

Origin

A Coruña, A Coruña Province, Spain

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / actor

Awards & achievements

• Knight of the Legion of Honour
• 1988 Castelao Medal
• 1987 Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts
• 1994 Officer of the National Order of Merit
• Molière Award for Best Actress
• Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
• 1961 Prix du Brigadier

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa%20Casares
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270834

Tags

• A Coruña Province
• stage actor
• film actor
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-24

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.