Enrique Liporace

Liporace began his career as an actor in 1963, when he was cast in La terraza, directed by period piece filmmaker Leopoldo Torre Nilsson. He earned extensive credits as a supporting actor in Argentine cinema, television and theatre in subsequent years,[http://www.nuestrosactores.com.ar/index.php/component/content/article/18-actores/184-liporace-enrique Nuestro Actores: Enrique Liporace] working with leading local directors such as Luis Saslavsky, Hugo del Carril, Lucas Demare, and Manuel Antín.[http://edant.clarin.com/diario/2004/03/09/c-00403.htm Clarín: Hice todo tipo de papeles] {{in lang|es}} Liporace shared an ill-fated relationship with actress Soledad Silveyra during the late 1960s, though the couple never married.[http://www.clarin.com/espectaculos/personajes/Enrique-Liporace_0_405559632.html Clarín: Enrique Liporace] {{in lang|es}}

Liporace's role as Basile, the compromised mining engineer in Adolfo Aristarain's Tiempo de revancha (1981) would become one of his best-known, and the following year, he starred in Aristarain's thriller, Últimos días de la víctima.[http://www.cinenacional.com/personas/index.php?persona=3545 Cine Nacional: Enrique Liporace] He also returned to the theatre, and acted in Al vencedor, a military drama by Osvaldo Dragún, during the Argentine Open Theatre festival of the early 1980s.[http://www.nuestrosactores.com.ar/index.php/component/content/article/23-obras/1022-al-vencedor-1982- Nuestros actores: Al vencedor]

The versatile actor played a transvestite man immersed in intrigue in Hebert Posse Amorim's 1985 critique of corporate control over broadcasting in Sin querer, queriendo (Accidentally on Purpose). A series of less notable roles followed, though Liporace remained busy in film and theatre alike. He appeared as populist President Juan Perón's calculating Information Minister, Raúl Apold, in Juan Carlos Desanzo's Eva Perón (1996), and as the gruff, corner café proprietor given to hiring illegal immigrants in Bolivia (2001).

Liporace's later roles include that of a nostalgic, minor-party politician in Fernando Musa's Chiche bombón (2004), and of a reprise of his earlier role as a transvestite in Daniel Ritto's Plástico cruel (2005).[http://fotograma.com/notas/reviews/3736.shtml Viñetas porteñas] {{in lang|es}} These roles never brought the recognition Lioprace sought, however, and the aging actor instead found success in the theatre, when in 2009 he was cast in Hernán Casciari's play, Más respeto que soy tu madre (More Respect - I'm Your Mother). The play, a slice-of-life tale set during the 1998–2002 Argentine great depression of 2002, cast Liporace opposite famed female impersonator Antonio Gasalla as the Bertottis, and drew a combined audience of half a million in its first 540 shows in Buenos Aires.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110723093516/http://www.elargentino.com/nota-122864-Antonio-Gasalla-primero-en-los-teatros-de-la-Ciudad.html El Argentino: Antonio Gasalla, primero en los teatros de la Ciudad]}} {{in lang|es}}

Liporace died on 27 January 2024, at the age of 82.{{cite news |title=Murió el actor Enrique Liporace a los 82 años |url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/murio-el-actor-enrique-liporace-tenia-82-anos-nid27012024/ |access-date=28 January 2024 |publisher=La Nacion |date=27 January 2024}}

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