The Alicante actor Julia Mira He died this Saturday at 75 yearsas reported by the City Council of Alcoy (Alicante), where he was born.
Mira toggled the dubbing, cinema, theater and television throughout his career, and in 2021 he received the distinction from the Generalitat Valenciana for Cultural Merit. Throughout his long career he has played characters, as the protagonist or supporting character, in numerous films and television series.
The Alcoy City Council has transferred its support and solidarity to family, friends and colleagues of the actor and has reported that the funeral chapel will be installed at the San Jorge Mortuary starting at 12:00 p.m.
Self-taught actor
Prototype of a self-taught actor, his innate expressive qualities and his undeniable magnetism on stage have allowed him to develop a extensive interpretive record in productions assigned to all types of genres, recalls the Alcoy council in a statement.
He highlights that his acting hobby began to emerge during his student years, when he took his first steps as an amateur actor in the Assalla theater group, and later he was part of the La Cazuela theater groupa fundamental entity of the performing arts in Alcoy with which he debuted in 1972 with ‘The flutist’s retaule‘, published by Jordi Teixidor in 1968.
In 1978 he made his first foray into film, with ‘The wonderful life of Father Vicent‘, and since then he has had a constant presence in films and television series, where he has stood out in roles such as Blasco Ibáñez in ‘Sorolla Cards‘ for Valencian Television and lately in the series ‘Unearthed‘.
Mira also participated in films such as ‘Gràcies per la tipina’ (1996) by Francesc Bellmunt, ‘La mar’ (1999) by Agustí Villaronga; ‘L’illa de l’holandés’ (2000) by Sigfrid Monleón; ‘The voices of the night’ (2002) by Salvador García or ‘See you tomorrow’, by Xavier Berraondo.
The actor had a great connection with his hometown, Alcoy, which in 2022 granted him the October 9th Prize. Mira was a ‘festero’ at the Moors and Christians Festival, of the Domingo Miques filà, and helped the Royal Ambassador transmit the message of the Kings of the East in 2015, in a traditional parade held in this municipality.
“A great actor has left us, a man from Alcoy who has built his career through effort, showing not only a great acting quality that has earned him numerous recognitions, but also a great human quality“said the mayor of Alcoy, Toni Francés.
From banking to interpretation
In an interview with Agencia EFE, in July 2022, he recounted his transition from working in banking to actingto which his friend Lluís Miquel, from Tabalet, took him, and how the theater became a “gym” for him, a way to “get in shape.”
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“I do things that I would never have done in my life in the theater and I feel like I’m going back to the beginning,” he was grateful for his profession, which led him to work with directors like Luis García Berlanga, who gave him a “trap” to participate in the film (for television) by Blasco Ibáñez.
Mira lived between her two residences in Alcoy (Alicante) and Cullera (Valencia), facing the Mediterranean, whose “light, color and smell” gave her life. The actor had overcame several cancer diagnoses and he assured that death did not scare him. What he did fear was suffering. “When the doctors tell you ‘we can’t do anything else’, let’s leave it be, then what are we doing here,” he pointed out.