Prestigious Argentine actress and human rights activist Cipe Lincovsky dead at 85.

[forest444]

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Celebrated and multiple award winning Argentine actress Cipe Lincovsky died yesterday in Buenos Aires after suffering a cardiac arrest, reported the Argentine Actors Association (Argentores). She was 85 years old.

Born Cecilia Lincovsky on September 21, 1929, she worked extensively in cinema, television and theatre in both Argentina and Europe from 1953 to 2012 with figures such as Jorge Donn, Lindsay Kemp, Maurice Bejart, Liv Ullmann, and Vittorio Gassman.

Devoted to the epic German theatre, in 1960 she acted in the Berliner Ensemble, the famous group created by Bertolt Brecht in the East Germany, where she established a good friendship with Helene Weigel, the playwright’s widow. A pioneer of the café concert genre popular in Buenos Aires in the 1960s and '70s, she was threatened by the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance during the administration of Isabel Perón and her fascist handler, minister José López Rega, and lived in exile in Spain between 1975 and 1980.

On her return to Argentina, she became a leading member of the emblematic Teatro Abierto (Open Theater) movement, which was born as a cultural resistance tool against the last military dictatorship. Lincovsky was also an active participant in cultural activities of the Argentine Jewish community.

Lincovsky was honored with many important prizes worldwide, including among others best actress nods from the Dramatic Impact Awards (West Berlin, 1959), the Martín Fierro Awards (1963), San Sebastián (1988), the Cóndor de Plata (1989), the Nijinsky International Festival (Moscow, 1990), and the Habima Theater (Tel Aviv, 1998). She was named a Distinguished Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires in 2007.

She last appeared in public on July 7 in the Argentine Actors Association, when Defense Minister Agustín Rossi published the secret black lists drawn up by the last military dictatorship; Lincovsky's name was among them.

At: http://buenosairesherald.com/article/197725/cipe-lincovsky-a-performer-to-remember-
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Lincovsky was probably best known outside Argentina for her 1988 film role opposite Liv Ullmann in Jeanine Meerapfel's La amiga (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girlfriend_(film) ). A life well lived.

[Judi Lynn]

1. So thought-provoking that her last public appearance was 7-7-15 when the Defense Minister

brought for the collection of names on the secret black lists from the Dirty War Military Dictatorship, which was supported by the U.S. Government.

She, also, was a target on those enemy lists. Some of the world's most brilliant people were on those lists, weren't they?

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Not a lot of people of this lady's quality in the world at any one time, are there?

I'm glad the dictatorship didn't get its chance to put out her light in the world. It wasn't for its lack of trying.

Thank you, forest444.