Diana Mariscal

Diana Mariscal

Birthday: June 25, 1949 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Birth Name: Graciela Guillermina Mariscal Romero
Diana Mariscal was a Mexican stage and screen actress, singer and artist. At 14 she had a hit song with "Picolo, Picolo", two years later the film producer Gregorio Walerstein discovered her and put her in "Especialista en chamacas" (1965). Diana Mariscal made her stage debut at 18 in Fernando Arrabal's "Fando y Lis&qu... Show more »
Diana Mariscal was a Mexican stage and screen actress, singer and artist. At 14 she had a hit song with "Picolo, Picolo", two years later the film producer Gregorio Walerstein discovered her and put her in "Especialista en chamacas" (1965). Diana Mariscal made her stage debut at 18 in Fernando Arrabal's "Fando y Lis", transferred to film by Alejandro Jodorowsky's in 1968, starring Sergio Kleiner as Fando and Diana Mariscal as his paraplegic girlfriend Lis. About an avant-garde journey including many odd and profoundly disturbing characters and events. After this artistic and adventurous project Diana Mariscal made a few feature films and records, before she more or less disappeared to Zacualpan de Amilpas, Morelos, to stay out of the spotlight and nurse her herself. She was accidentally killed in the city of Cuernavaca 2013, when she was hit by a motorcycle. On October 21, 2014, during the XII Morelia International Film Festival , the documentary El silencio de la princesa (The silence of the princess) was premiered by Mexican filmmaker and graphic designer Manuel Cañibe, where a semblance about Diana Mariscal is made, through the testimonies of various characters who knew her throughout her life and career. Show less «
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