Isabel Torres, Actress Known for ‘Veneno’ on HBO Max, Dies at 52
nytimes.comIsabel Torres, the Spanish actress best known for playing the transgender singer and television personality Cristina Ortiz Rodríguez in the HBO Max series “Veneno,” died on Friday.
She was 52. Ms. Torres’s family confirmed her death in a statement on her official Instagram account. The statement did not specify a cause or say where she died.
In recent years, Ms. Torres had documented her treatments for lung cancer on Instagram. In November, she shared a video in which she said she had been told she had only about two months to live. “Let’s see if I get over it,” she said. “And if not,” she added, “what are we going to do?
Life is like that.” She said the video would be her last, though she continued to post photographs for several weeks. Ms. Torres had acted sporadically since the mid-1990s before she found her largest audience in 2020 in “Veneno,” as one of three transgender performers who portrayed Ms.
