- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- December 3, 1953
- Place of Birth
- Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain
- Died
- November 12, 2021
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…
Filmography
tvCachitos de hierro y cromo
2013 · Self (archive footage)
movieBarefoot in the Kitchen
2013 · (archive footage)
tvLove in Difficult Times
2005 · Eulalia de la Torre de Ayala
movieMala uva
2004 · Puri
movieKill Me Tender
2004 · Pastora
movieCorazón de bombón
2001 · Marga
tvPuerta con puerta
1999 · Josefina
moviePintadas
1997 · Tania
movieAn Internal Affair
1996 · Viuda Anglada
movieFamily
1996 · Sole
movieTaxi
1996 · Reme
tvCurro Jiménez, the Return of a Legend
1995 · Condesa
movieThe Return of the Musketeers
1989 · Duchesse de Longueville
movieThe Holy Innocents
1984 · Doña Pura
movieUna mujer y un cobarde
1979
movieTrauma
1978 · Veronica
movieAvisa a Curro Jiménez
1978 · Henriette
movieDeseo carnal
1978 · Margot
movieThe Frenchman's Garden
1978 · Charo
moviePasión inconfesable
1978 · Adela
movieThe Transsexual
1977 · Lona
movieLas marginadas
1977 · Cristina
movieLas desarraigadas
1977 · Andrea Ray
movieSexy... amor y fantasía
1977 · Ángela
movieEl erotismo y la informática
1976 · Adela Martínez
movieThe Waitresses
1976 · Susana
tvLa saga de los Rius
1976 · Lula
movieLa nueva Marilyn
1976 · Teresa
movieSábado, chica, motel ¡qué lío aquel!
1976 · Elisa
movieFango
1976 · Marion
movieLa iniciación en el amor
1976 · Licenia
movieLa noche de los cien pájaros
1976 · Mónica
movieAl fin solos, pero...
1976
movieThe Lively Vampires of Vögel
1975 · Ethel
movieEl último tango en Madrid
1975
movieValley of the Dancing Widows
1975 · María
movieStrip-tis a la inglesa
1975
movieUna mujer de cabaret
1974 · Laura
movieSex o no sex
1974 · Chica sexy
movieBloody Vacation
1974 · Sharon
movieLos fríos senderos del crimen
1974 · Helen
moviePasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata
1974 · Novella Ferraris
movieLos Kalatrava contra el imperio del karate
1974 · Ágata
movieEl último viaje
1974 · Cati
movieOnofre
1974 · Asunción
movieThe Deadly Triangle
1973 · Margot
movieElla (Trágica obsesión)
1973
movieMe has hecho perder el juicio
1973 · Charo
movieThree Supermen of the West
1973 · Yolanda / Agata
movieTequila!
1973 · Ingrid Cogan
movieKnife of Ice
1972 · (uncredited)
movieThe Masked Thief
1971 · Antonietta Pickford
movieDe espaldas a la puerta
1959 · Princesa