1953-12-03 ( 71 years old ) in Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain
Actress (b. Valladolid, Spain, Dec. 3, 1953). After having studied simultaneously Philosophy and Art and Speech (both careers remained unfinished), she became a household name overnight as one of the pretty and "bespectacled" hostesses of the top-rated TV contest "1, 2, 3, Responda Otra Vez", where she popularized what was going to be her early screen persona: platinum blonde-dyed hair, provocative ways and a sensuality always ready to break out. She made her film debut in 1972, at 19, and acquired an enormous popularity thanks to her tremendous sex-appeal and a clever promotion campaign that exploited a certain similarity between her looks and those of the late Marilyn Monroe to the extent of making a successful movie named precisely "The New Marilyn" (1976). She kept this image for a while (especially in her spectacular TV appearances in the mid-70s), but eventually got tired of it and decided to cut off her hair completely (she did it herself with a pair of scissors borrowed from a filming kit) and let it grow its natural dark colour again. Blonde or brunette, Lys grabbed a long string of femme fatale roles in films of each and every genre (thrillers, comedies, dramas, westerns, etc.) and turned into some kind of domestic myth at that time. (She also had the advantage of owning a fine diction that matched her thought-provoking voice perfectly, so, unlike some other actresses of that era, she didn't need to be dubbed.) Anyway, after leading her bold image one step further in the late 70s, she decided to stop making films and concentrate on her theatrical work, that she had started in 1973 playing Dª Inés de Ulloa in Zorrilla's "Don Juan Tenorio" with her own company. In the 1980s she focused her activity on recording music (which she did with real gusto and vocal dexterity), performing in both musical shows and dramatic or comic plays in which she displayed an image far removed from the one that shot her to fame and even making more sporadic appearances on TV (playing, for example, a splendid Portia on a small-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Merchant Of Venice"). The late 80s saw her returning to the movies and scoring some films of uneven success and quality, although she has always risen to the occasion. In any case, she is still an underestimated actress, though she has proved capable of giving such amusing characterizations as that of "Avisa A Curro Jiménez" (1978), where she seemed almost unrecognizable. Now she leads a rather reclusive life when not working (in contrast to the antics and eccentricities of her early career) and, although she has never married, she enjoys a very stable relationship with Fernando, her partner of some 20 years. Hers is really one of those examples of body-with-a-brain-on-top-to-match, and hopefully she will still be around for a large number of years.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: alberto mallofré
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Mala uva
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Kill Me Tender
2004-02-13
Corazón de bombón
2001-02-09
Pintadas
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An Internal Affair
1996-12-20
Family
1996-10-01
Taxi
1996-09-09
The Return of the Musketeers
1989-04-12
The Holy Innocents
1984-04-04
Una mujer y un cobarde
1979-02-17
Trauma
1978-09-11
Avisa a Curro Jiménez
1978-09-04
Deseo carnal
1978-08-27
The Frenchman's Garden
1978-06-04
Pasión inconfesable
1978-01-01
The Transsexual
1977-10-17
Las marginadas
1977-06-08
Las desarraigadas
1977-05-01
Sexy... amor y fantasía
1977-04-11
El erotismo y la informática
1976-11-29
The Waitresses
1976-11-19
La nueva Marilyn
1976-09-19
Sábado, chica, motel ¡qué lío aquel!
1976-09-12
Fango
1976-04-09
La iniciación en el amor
1976-02-06
La noche de los cien pájaros
1976-01-01
Al fin solos, pero...
1976-01-01
The Lively Vampires of Vögel
1975-11-16
El último tango en Madrid
1975-08-11
Valley of the Dancing Widows
1975-05-22
Strip-tis a la inglesa
1975-01-01
Una mujer de cabaret
1974-12-02
Sex o no sex
1974-09-05
Bloody Vacation
1974-09-02
Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata
1974-08-14
Los fríos senderos del crimen
1974-07-07
Los Kalatrava contra el imperio del karate
1974-03-18
El último viaje
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Onofre
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The Deadly Triangle
1973-12-10
Ella (Trágica obsesión)
1973-12-07
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Three Supermen of the West
1973-08-28
Tequila!
1973-05-25
Knife of Ice
1972-08-24
The Masked Thief
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De espaldas a la puerta
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