- In the 1960s , she focused on acting, combining film, theater and television.
- On July 16 , 2011 , Concha Velasco , presenter of Cine de barrio , conducted an interview with the actress (who was 107 years old at the time) as a presentation of the film Esta que lo es, which she starred in 1974 with Arturo Fernández and Lina Morgan . On this occasion, she herself recalled that her debut, in 1942 , was as a mezzo-soprano in Rigoletto , Madame Butterfly , Cavalleria rusticana and many others.
- She was a Spanish actress and started working in the theater at age 16.
- She specialized in comic roles, always as a supporting actress. Among her more than 100 titles, she worked with great Spanish directors, such as Basilio Martín Patino , Juan de Orduña , Pedro Masó , Pedro Lazaga or Antonio Mercero .
- Her first great vocation was opera and zarzuela.
- Martínez Sierra played the mother of 'Felipito Tacatún' in the serial 'Yo sigo' (1972), starring Argentine comedian Joe Rígoli . A program that was withdrawn by the censors of the time who saw veiled allusions to the survival of the Franco dictatorship in the title.
- Theater and, later, television, would arrive for her in a second phase, "due to the economic needs of the time".
- She was a Spanish lyrical singer and actress of film, theater and television.
- She made her film debut at the late age of 53, with the film El Tigre de Chamberí , directed by Pedro Luis Ramírez and starring Tony Leblanc .
- Her first years as actress elapsed on stages in operas such as Tosca (1952), Madame Butterfly (1953) or La canción del amor mío (1958).
- The actress and singer began her professional career after the Civil War, in 1942, making her debut as a mezzo-soprano, a voice that attracted the Canarian tenor Alfredo Kraus who soon proposed that she join his company, with which she toured theaters around the world.
- On November 6, after visiting the cafeteria, as usual, for breakfast, the 108 year-old actress returned to her room to "take a nap" from which she did not wake up. The following day she was cremated in the La Almudena cemetery in Madrid, after having lived longer than any other Spanish actress: 108 years, six months and four days.
- Carmen Martinez Sierra was dean of Spanish artists and the longest-lived of her profession.
- Enjoying great mental lucidity, she spent her last years in a nursing home in Madrid, her hometown, where she died in her sleep.
- Martínez Sierra, a performer who became popular after her appearance on the television comedy 'La casa de los Martínez' , also made several well-known commercials for Telefónica, and numerous appearances as a mezzo-soprano in the Alfredo Kraus company.
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