The Catalan performer began her professional career 23 years ago, with appearances in productions such as ‘Inconscientes’ or ‘Las Maletas de Tulse Tuper 3’
Itziar Castro He died this morning at the age of 46. Shocking news that has moved all of the actress’ professional colleagues, who according to the first information, He would have died due to heart failure.
“With an outstanding career in the entertainment industry, Castro left an indelible mark with his remarkable performance and charisma”highlighted director Frankie De Leonardis on the social network X, which since early this morning has been filled with messages in memory of the interpreter.
Castro began his professional career 23 years ago, with appearances in productions such as ‘Inconscientes’ or ‘The suitcases of Tulse Tuper 3’. It was in the 2010s when She began to become known to the general public with films such as ‘El gran Vázquez’, ‘REC 3: Génesis’, or ‘Snow White’.
‘Unfortunate Stories’ and ‘Champions’, both by Javier Fesser, are some of his latest notable projects on the big screen. In 2018 She was nominated for the Goya for best new actress for ‘Pieles’by Eduardo Casanova.
Beyond his work in film, Itziar Castro dedicated a large part of his career to television. His great rise to fame came with ‘Vis a vis’, the prison fiction broadcast on Antena 3 – and later on FOX – in which he played Goya. In 2020 he brought his character back to life in the spin off ‘Vis a vis: the oasis’.
In addition to working on series such as ‘Por H o por B’ and ‘Once upon a time… but not anymore’, he has also participated with episodic appearances in other fictions such as ‘Paquita Salas’, ‘Terror and fair’, ‘Perfect life’, ‘Benidorm’, or ‘The one that is coming’.
But Castro did not operate only in the realm of fiction. In 2018 he became part of the faculty of ‘Triumph operation‘ as an acting teacher. However, she was fired after a few weeks for not having obtained “the expected results” in her subject, according to Gestmusic.
A year later he became one of the star signings of ‘Everything is a lie’the program that presents Risto Mejide on the afternoons of Four. A month later she disappeared from the team of collaborators, which led to rumors that she may have been fired. Something that she herself flatly denied, revealing that his contract was going to have that duration from the beginning due to incompatibility with other projects.
Shortly afterwards he met Risto again in the ‘Chester’, where she opened up to talk about her relationship with food and the bullying she suffered as a child. “They have insulted me, they have hit me… At 17 I felt super fat and I was a size 40. I felt fatter there than now”he commented in the interview.
.@ItziarCastro gets excited in #ChesterFood: “When you are different they don’t make it easy for you” https://t.co/Ea3XRslFb1 pic.twitter.com/4u5dwz9tNn
— Traveling with Chester (@Chester_cuatro) March 17, 2019
Regarding his dismissal from ‘Operación Triunfo’, he confessed that it made him feel “bad” because of his self-demand: “I don’t like not doing things well. I wanted to finish my job.” Besides, He stated that he had a “cordial” relationship with Noemí Galera: “We are not friends, it is clear”. “The only thing I may have felt bad about is that neither Noemí Galera nor Tinet Rubira were present at the dismissal,” he acknowledged.
Castro, who also raised his voice against sexist violence, appeared in ‘Rocío, tell the truth to stay alive’ to send a message of support to Rocio Carrasco. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being brave, for not being silent anymore. Because this way, by saying things, you fight against hate and change the world,” she said. In recent times she has also participated as a guest on programs such as ’25 words’, ‘Pasapalabra’ and ‘Chain reaction’.