Spanish actress and LGBT activist Elizabeth Torres, one of the protagonists of the series Poison which became internationally popular when it was broadcast on the platform HBO, He died this Friday of cancer at the age of 52, his relatives announced.
“We fired Isabel. Although her family and friends feel her loss deeply, we know that wherever she goes she will have fun as only she knows how ”indicated a publication in the official account of the interpreter on Instagram.
“Thank you for all the expressions of affection and concern. She has left feeling very loved and protected ”added the note.
Isabel Torres, born in the Canary Islands, suffered from lung cancer and last November she said goodbye to her followers with a video on social networks in which she stated that the doctors had given her two months to live.
“If I get out of this I will reconnect, and if I don’t get out, it has been a pleasure meeting you, being with you and living this beautiful experience called life”, Torres said at the time.
The actress, who in 1996 became the first transgender woman in the Canary Islands who managed to change her gender on her national identity document, participated in several films, but fame came to her with her participation in Poison.
In that series, which premiered in Spain in October 2020 and shortly afterwards was broadcast internationally through HBO, she was one of the three people who embodied Cristina Ortiz La Veneno, a celebrity who made the transgender community visible in different stages. Spain.
Media figure, who was in jail for fraud, La Veneno also died at the age of 52 in 2016 due to head trauma from a fall in the bathroom of his house after consuming alcohol and anxiolytics.
Isabel Torres, who in 2015 became the first transgender woman to be a candidate for Queen of the Carnival in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, She was diagnosed with cancer in 2018, the same year she was selected to play La Veneno.
towers was “a wonderful actress who made us all vibrate”the Spanish Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, wrote on Twitter. “May the earth be light to you, I wish you hadn’t left so soon”he added. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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