Ágata Lys
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
Known For
Credits
- 2013 · Cachitos de hierro y cromo as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · Barefoot in the Kitchen as (archive footage)
- 2005 · Amar en tiempos revueltos as Eulalia de la Torre de Ayala
- 2004 · Mala uva as Puri
- 2004 · Kill Me Tender as Pastora
- 2001 · Corazón de bombón as Marga
- 1997 · Pintadas as Tania
- 1996 · An Internal Affair as Viuda Anglada
- 1996 · Family as Sole
- 1996 · Taxi as Reme
- 1995 · Curro Jiménez, the Return of a Legend as Condesa
- 1989 · The Return of the Musketeers as Duchesse de Longueville
- 1984 · The Holy Innocents as Doña Pura
- 1979 · Una mujer y un cobarde as
- 1978 · Trauma as Veronica
- 1978 · Avisa a Curro Jiménez as Henriette
- 1978 · Deseo carnal as Margot
- 1978 · The Frenchman's Garden as Charo
- 1978 · Pasión inconfesable as Adela
- 1977 · Las marginadas as Cristina
- 1977 · Las desarraigadas as Andrea Ray
- 1977 · Sexy... amor y fantasía as Ángela
- 1977 · The Transsexual as Lona
- 1976 · El erotismo y la informática as Adela Martínez
- 1976 · The Waitresses as Susana
- 1976 · La saga de los Rius as Lula
- 1976 · La nueva Marilyn as Teresa
- 1976 · Sábado, chica, motel ¡qué lío aquel! as Elisa
- 1976 · Fango as Marion
- 1976 · La iniciación en el amor as Licenia
- 1976 · Al fin solos, pero... as
- 1976 · La noche de los cien pájaros as Mónica
- 1975 · The Lively Vampires of Vögel as Ethel
- 1975 · El último tango en Madrid as
- 1975 · Valley of the Dancing Widows as María
- 1975 · Strip-tis a la inglesa as
- 1974 · Una mujer de cabaret as Laura
- 1974 · Sex o no sex as Chica sexy
- 1974 · Bloody Vacation as Sharon
- 1974 · Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata as Novella Ferraris
- 1974 · Los fríos senderos del crimen as Helen
- 1974 · Los Kalatrava contra el imperio del karate as Ágata
- 1974 · El último viaje as Cati
- 1974 · Onofre as Asunción
- 1973 · The Deadly Triangle as Margot
- 1973 · Ella (Trágica obsesión) as
- 1973 · Me has hecho perder el juicio as Charo
- 1973 · Three Supermen of the West as Yolanda / Agata
- 1973 · Tequila! as Ingrid Cogan
- 1972 · Knife of Ice as (uncredited)
- 1971 · The Masked Thief as Antonietta Pickford
- 1959 · De espaldas a la puerta as Princesa