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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
Most Popular Ágata Lys Trailers
Total trailers found: 48
20 December 1996
In the early 70s, a rather backwards young soldier with serious family problems finds himself stationed in a small village in Spain's Levante.
18 July 1997
Diego and Clara have met recently and suddenly have the urge to live together. Afterwards, They find a house to live in.
29 November 1976
A software engineer develops an algorithm to succeed on dating womans
04 September 1978
Córdoba, Spain. Lord Killarney, representative of the British Museum, acquires an Arabic incunabulum at an auction; but he is murdered and the book disappears.
20 February 1974
Commissioner Mendoza must join forces with the honorable civil guard, to stop the activities of a network of drug traffickers with international contacts that intend to act in Spain.
09 September 1996
A young girl, after failing an exam, is forced by her father, a taxi-driver, to learn his profession.
16 November 1975
The town of Vögel, in Transylvania, stands under the ruins of the old castle where the vampire lord tortured his prisoners and drank their blood.
05 September 1974
Paco, a frustrated office worker, goes to the office of a psychologist, to whom he tells his most delirious sexual fantasies in the hope that he will apply a curative therapy.
01 October 1996
Santiago wakes up like any other morning. He goes down to the kitchen and his whole family is waiting for him: it's his birthday.
01 January 1976
The young Enrique leaving to study at the University and is married to Juana. One day he meets a painter who takes Enrique into another life and confused begin to think about taking some drastic measures.
12 November 1959
Inspector Simón and Inspector Arévalo investigate the stabbing of a nightclub employee.
02 September 1974
Richard, an FBI agent, arrives on a Caribbean island. There, he hopes to avenge the death of Jim, his partner and friend.
06 February 1976
In a sun-drenched pastoral world, two teenage shepherds—Daphnis, raised by goats after being abandoned, and Chloe, his devoted companion—explore the innocence and intensity of first love.
05 September 1971
Bill Nolan, Sheriff of Ockland, receives a telegram informing him of the arrival of a stagecoach with federal bank securities.
12 April 1989
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort.
24 August 1972
A mute woman, traumatized by her parents' death, faces new horrors when her cousin is murdered by a suspected killer.
22 May 1975
A group of retired soldiers return from the Civil War to Texas, where they are no longer tolerated by the women who have become independent because of their unsuitability.
25 May 1973
Shosena, a clever bank robber, is associated with "Jaguar" to take a big hit. They think the town where the bank owned dock Koven, a man who has against all the farmers of the place.
04 June 1978
"The Frenchman" was what locals called the man who ran the bar and restaurant in the small town of Peñaflor in rural Spain in the early part of the 20th century.
14 June 2013
What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragments of different films, both fiction and non-fiction.
13 February 2004
Do all men want the same thing? Nestor, recently widowed, runs a bakery near Barcelona, has a bank account and a bad heart, and swims in the sea every day.
11 September 1978
Daniel, a writer seeking seclusion to work on his new book, finds himself stranded at a rural bed and breakfast run by a strange and prudish young woman and her ailing, wheelchair-bound husband who remains shut in his room all day.
10 December 1973
Inspired by "The diabolical" by Clouzot. The life of a woman becomes a sinister nightmare due to the plan drawn up by her husband.
04 April 1984
In 60s Extremadura, Paco el Bajo and his relatives work during day in a farmhouse, and silently suffer submission to their masters, who exploit them and treat them almost like animals.
18 April 1974
Pasqualino Cammarata is an Italian naval officer who has been disliked by his admiral because of his high-level knowledge, given that he is quite incapable as an officer.
28 August 1973
With their time machine, the three Supermen try to recover antique treasures and end up in the West and find the most famous treasure of THE BANDIT.
17 October 1977
Sympathetic look at the tragic life of cabaret singer Lorna, who was born a man but really just wants to be a woman.
08 June 1977
Four women-one an alcoholic, one a former prostitute, one whose age hasn't forgiven her, and another whose boyfriend has dumped her-join forces to overcome their problems and find happiness.
01 January 1974
Onofre, who is forty years old, is still a virgin. He's going to put great efforts to leave this state.
09 February 2001
Luis must pass himself off as a woman when he is discovered at the home of one of his lovers. In his role as a woman he meets another woman, with whom he strikes up a friendship or something more.
