Lola Herrera, Talia of Honor

Madrid, Mar 27 (EFE).- The actress Lola Herrera, one of the most relevant and beloved ladies on the scene, has received this Monday the Talía honorary award for professional career, an award that has been granted to her in its first edition the Academy of Performing Arts.
With the theater on its feet and a long applause, Lola Herrera, moved and with tears in her eyes, has received the award from Antonio Banderas, who has presented her as “one of the great Lolas of Spain”.
“Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you very much, dear colleagues and friends”, were the first words an emotional Lola Herrera said this Monday when she went on stage, who recalled that she has been on stage for 65 years.
“I am very excited to be on this stage, I have never worked in Spanish and it is exciting to be here”, she pointed out, while adding that, from now on, with the creation of these awards, the theater will have memory: “We don’t have it theatrically, and there are already few actors who can tell what happened before.”

“At 87 years old, almost 88, I still do what I like, theater. I continue to travel thousands of kilometers to share stories. I have done as many tours as I premiered”, said the actress.
“I like to share emotions, silence, dreams, hopes. That is why I am here, in the theater”, added the Valladolid, who has recognized that “theater is a tough profession, but the most beautiful”.

A life linked to the theater

His name will always be linked to the play by Miguel Delibes “Five hours with Mario” which he premiered in 1979, and which, since then, has brought him great recognition.
At the age of four, she played the role of a doll at school. She later dedicated herself to the song and won prizes in radio contests.
She debuted as an actress in Madrid in 1957, led by the man who would later become her father-in-law, Manuel Dicenta, with “El bell ringer” by E. Wallace.
He participated in numerous comedies such as “Cheri” or “Alice in Wonderland” and took part in plays by Estudio 1 of TVE, being “Cañas y barro” and “Las viudas” some of his great works.
She has mainly developed her career in theater and television, but she tried film with works such as the curious “Función de noche” (1981), an autobiographical film about her failed marriage, which she made with her ex-husband, Daniel Dicenta.
On stage he also worked in the eighties in “Juana del amor hermoso” or “The bitter tears of Petra Von Kant” with his daughter Natalia.

In 1989 he resumed “Cinco Horas con Mario”, but had to give it up because he couldn’t handle the emotional weight of the performance at that time. Her next role was in “The Last Days of Emmanuel Kant”.
In 1996 he returned to television alongside Arturo Fernández in the series “La casa de los líos” (Antena 3) and in 2001 he returned to the stage in Valladolid with a new version of “Cinco horas con Mario”.
On February 16, 2022, Lola Herrera put an end to forty-three years of fidelity to Delibes’s monologue in her hometown, which she has staged over five stages since its premiere in Madrid in 1979.
Tireless, Lola Herrera is these days representing the play “Addicts” together with Lola Baldrich and Ana Labordeta, a piece directed by Magüi Mira and co-written by Herrera’s son, Daniel Dicenta, and Juan Manuel Gómez.