Ágata Lys

Biography

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,…

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Return of the Musketeers (1989) — Duchesse de Longueville
2. The Holy Innocents (1984) — Doña Pura
3. Knife of Ice (1972) — (uncredited)
4. Taxi (1996) — Reme
5. Family (1996) — Sole
6. Trauma (1978) — Veronica
7. Kill Me Tender (2004) — Pastora
8. Me has hecho perder el juicio (1973) — Charo
9. The Frenchman's Garden (1978) — Charo
10. Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata (1974) — Novella Ferraris
11. Onofre (1974) — Asunción
12. Tequila! (1973) — Ingrid Cogan
13. The Transsexual (1977) — Lona
14. Cachitos de hierro y cromo (2013) — Self (archive footage)
15. Corazón de bombón (2001) — Marga
16. Pintadas (1997) — Tania
17. El último viaje (1974) — Cati
18. Love in Difficult Times (2005) — Eulalia de la Torre de Ayala
19. La noche de los cien pájaros (1976) — Mónica
20. Avisa a Curro Jiménez (1978) — Henriette
21. Sex o no sex (1974) — Chica sexy
22. The Lively Vampires of Vögel (1975) — Ethel
23. El erotismo y la informática (1976) — Adela Martínez
24. The Deadly Triangle (1973) — Margot
25. Sexy... amor y fantasía (1977) — Ángela
26. Deseo carnal (1978) — Margot
27. Una mujer de cabaret (1974) — Laura
28. La iniciación en el amor (1976) — Licenia
29. Three Supermen of the West (1973) — Yolanda / Agata
30. The Waitresses (1976) — Susana
31. Fango (1976) — Marion
32. Las desarraigadas (1977) — Andrea Ray
33. Sábado, chica, motel ¡qué lío aquel! (1976) — Elisa
34. Al fin solos, pero... (1976)
35. La nueva Marilyn (1976) — Teresa
36. Las marginadas (1977) — Cristina
37. Strip-tis a la inglesa (1975)
38. De espaldas a la puerta (1959) — Princesa
39. Barefoot in the Kitchen (2013) — (archive footage)
40. The Masked Thief (1971) — Antonietta Pickford