Early life Lizaran's father was a mechanic and her mother a dressmaker. She showed enormous interest in the theatre when she was a child and studied theatre in the Centre d'Estudis Experimentals of
Barcelona and was one of the first members of
Els Comediants. In 1974, she moved to
Paris to study with the
mime Jacques Lecoq.
Career When Lizaran returned to Barcelona in 1976, she started working in the
Teatre Lliure. She since starred in such celebrated Spanish movies as
High Heels (together with co-star Penélope Cruz) and
Actrius. In 1996, she directed the TV show
Arsènic i puntes de coixí for television. In 2005, she performed the character
Rosa for the second season of the
TV3 sitcom ''L'un per l'altre''. In her later years she performed in the television series
La Via Augusta (2007), the film Herois (2010), and her latest theater performance was for the Catalan adaptation of
August: Osage County as Violet and broke records for the
Teatre Nacional de Catalunya.
Death Lizaran died in the
Hospital Clínic,
Barcelona on the morning of 12 January 2013 of cancer at age 68. The cancer was diagnosed three months before her death. She was unable to release her latest theater work,
La Bête. ==Filmography==