Juan Margallo
Juan Francisco Margallo Rivera (24 September 1940 – 2 March 2025) was a Spanish actor, theatre director and dramaturge. Margallo was considered one of the main actors in Spanish theater.
Also recorded as Juan Francisco Margallo Rivera
Juan Margallo

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- Name
- Juan Margallo
- Birth Name
- Juan Francisco Margallo Rivera
- Born
- 24 September 1940
- Birthplace
- Cáceres, Spain
- Died
- 2 March 2025
- Place of death
- Madrid, Spain
- Education
- RESAD
- Occupation
- * Actor
- Full name
- Juan Francisco Margallo Rivera.
- Nationality
- Spain
- Honours
- Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts · Max Awards · National Theater Prize · Medal of Extremadura
- Languages
- Spanish
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Juan Margallo (1940 – 2 marzo 2025) fu attore, regista teatrale e dramaturg.
Vita
Juan Margallo nacque nel 1940 e morì il 2 marzo 2025 a Madrid, Spagna. Per il luogo di nascita di Juan Margallo, Cáceres è registrato dalla Deutsche Nationalbibliothek e Montánchez (Espagne) dalla Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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• Name — Juan Margallo • Birth Name — Juan Francisco Margallo Rivera • Born — 24 September 1940 • Birthplace — Cáceres, Spain • Died — 2 March 2025 • Place of death — Madrid, Spain • Education — RESAD • Occupation — * Actor • theater director • dramaturge • Years Active — 1963–2023 • Children — 2
Life and career
Life and career
He worked with Miguel Narros, Luis Escobar Kirkpatrick and José Tamayo. In 1976, he played Woyzeck, by Georg Büchner, and La sangre y la ceniza, by Alfonso Sastre. He was awarded the prestigious national award 'Premio Nacional de Teatro 2022'. In 2011, he founded with his spouse, Petra Martínez, the Uroc Teatro, which received the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes. Margallo died from complications of a fall in Madrid, on 2 March 2025, at the age of 84.
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- 1.Muere Juan Margallo a los 84 años, referente del teatro independiente en España.
- 2.Diccionario del teatro. 8446008270.
- 3.Petra Martínez y Juan Margallo, Premio Nacional de Teatro 2022.
- 4.Néstor Luján en su recreación literaria Los espejos paralelos, nombra a dicho mastín como "León", cabeza de la jauría de Felipe IV, que llegó a vivir 16 años. Op.cit.: Barcelona: Editorial Planeta (1991) p. 213 ISBN 84-320-7037-8
- 5.Se llama caricato, término italiano que viene a significar «exagerado», al cómico que imita personajes conocidos.
- 6.La hija de ambos, Olga Margallo (1970), también se dedica a la interpretación y dirección teatral.
- 7.Entrevista en "Pop UP Teatro". 17.02.2017.
- 8.entre ellas Ejercicio para equilibristas (1980), en el Centro Dramático Nacional; Otro gran teatro del mundo (2012), conjuntamente con la Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico y Uroc Teatro; y montajes de su compañía familiar: El señor Ibrahim y las flores del Corán (2004), Cosas nuestras de nosotros mismos (2012).
- 9.Uroc Teatro para Niños y Niñas: La Compañía.
- 10.Petra Martínez, tras ser galardonada junto a Margallo con el Premio Nacional: "El teatro sin Juan no me apetece hacerlo".
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