Very interesting info, thanks MikeS!MikeS wrote:I noticed after the thread here and within a few days Wikipedia had added Died: to the section on the right but at the top of her page it still read "Marta Dubois is a Panamanian actress" - so which is it??? Died has since been removed, around the 14th.
Neither IMDB or Wikipedia made mention of her marriage to Sal Dano, I believe his given name was Salvatore Giardano, I'm sure I've got the spelling wrong. The Sal Dano Actors Workshop was his, or was started in his name or honor.
Interestingly, I had recently listened to the audio of what I think was a Skype conversation with Marta from around 2013. She said a number of times she had lost her husband Sal 6 years ago, he died in 2007. Marta was really shaken by his passing and she said it was what drove her back to the religion of her youth, she was raised Catholic. The conversation was really and mostly about her work in her husband's actors workshop, training young actors to remain moral and not to sellout and do something they would later regret simply to get a part... this interview was 2013, before the MeToo movement.
Two bits I thought were kinda cool and stood out, She was asked something to the affect - what was your favorite role or favorite experience as an actor working on a set... do I really need to say she said Michelle was it. She also mentioned having a conversation with Stacy Keach during some downtime on a set, and that they had a discussion about PEDs in sports, cutting corners to succeed, along those lines. It should be pretty easy to find again if interested.
It was a heavy conversation more about keeping the faith in a difficult career choice, suffering loss, and getting back to a place of peace and joy. I hope she was happy in her last years, and I hope she has atleast planted some good seed in the aspiring actors that found their way to the wokshop.
I started looking around and came across these.
youtu.be/YyXDVGGV3u8
It looks like the clip above is part of the larger interview you were referencing.
youtu.be/SUHzhYCeQIE
I do remember being surprised when she reappeared on MPI a few years later. I knew she was TM’s former wife, but it was pretty uncommon at the time for such storylines to be revisited on series television. Regardless, she was a very talented and beautiful actress.