Ágata Lys

Ágata Lys

Born: December 3, 1953
Died: November 12, 2021
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

Movies for Ágata Lys...

Title: Cachitos de hierro y cromo
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 27, 2013
Type: TV
Cachitos de hierro y cromo is a Spanish musical-themed documentary program, directed by Jero Rodríguez and hosted by Virginia Díaz. It is an unapologetic musical display of RTVE's sound legacy in the form of performances on the set of programs such as 'Aplauso', 'Galas del Sábado', 'Mapa Sonoro', 'Zona Franca' or 'Los Conciertos de Radio 3'. For nearly 60 years, artists and other specimens have stormed viewers' screens. The result is a polyphony of images and memories that includes everything from James Brown to Camela, from Perales to REM, from Gabinete to Violent Femmes. And so all the time. Our secret weapon has been the historical archive of TVE, the repository of Spanish collective memory for more than half a century.
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Barefoot in the Kitchen
Title: Barefoot in the Kitchen
Character: (archive footage)
Released: June 14, 2013
Type: Movie
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. (Followed by “Manda huevos,” 2016.)
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Title: Amar en tiempos revueltos
Character: Eulalia de la Torre de Ayala
Released: September 28, 2005
Type: TV
Amar en tiempos revueltos is a Spanish soap opera set in the times of the Spanish civil war and the early Francoism. The serial has been aired from 2005 and has won prizes in Spain and a Silver Medal in the «New York Festivals». In January 2013 will air on Antena 3 with new name, Amar es para siempre
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Mala uva
Title: Mala uva
Character: Puri
Released: September 10, 2004
Type: Movie
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Kill Me Tender
Title: Kill Me Tender
Character: Pastora
Released: February 13, 2004
Type: Movie
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. He also has a daughter and a two-timing son-in-law. Nestor's maid asks him to hire her 20-something daughter, Maribel, as a shop assistant.
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Corazón de bombón
Title: Corazón de bombón
Character: Marga
Released: February 9, 2001
Type: Movie
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.
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Pintadas
Title: Pintadas
Character: Tania
Released: July 18, 1997
Type: Movie
Diego and Clara have met recently and suddenly have the urge to live together. Afterwards, They find a house to live in. However, strange things start to happen.
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An Internal Affair
Title: An Internal Affair
Character: Viuda Anglada
Released: December 20, 1996
Type: Movie
In the early 70s, a rather backwards young soldier with serious family problems finds himself stationed in a small village in Spain's Levante. Secretly in love with a young village girl, Pere slips into her room one night. When he is discovered, the soldier reacts with spontaneous violence, creating an embarrassing problem for the military that the brass decide to handle--expeditiously-- as "an internal affair."
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Family
Title: Family
Character: Sole
Released: October 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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. They all sing "Happy Birthday to You" and give him presents. But when he opens the present of his youngest son, he gets angry and says he doesn't like it. The boy starts crying and saying that he loves him, but Santiago answers that he doesn't believe him and he tells the boy that he is fired and that he wants another son, who is thinner, who doesn't need glasses and who resembles him more. Written by Pablo Montoya
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Taxi
Title: Taxi
Character: Reme
Released: September 9, 1996
Type: Movie
A young girl, after failing an exam, is forced by her father, a taxi-driver, to learn his profession. Soon she discovers that her father is not only a driver but also a member of a racist group eliminating immigrants, homosexual, transvestite, etc. people. She also falls in love with a boy, also a taxi-driver and a "socio" of the group.
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Title: Curro Jiménez, the Return of a Legend
Character: Condesa
Released: April 11, 1995
Type: TV
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The Return of the Musketeers
Title: The Return of the Musketeers
Character: Duchesse de Longueville
Released: April 12, 1989
Type: Movie
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. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also pursued by Justine, the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy 20 years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve the Queen, and secure Beauford's political reforms.
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The Holy Innocents
Title: The Holy Innocents
Character: Doña Pura
Released: April 4, 1984
Type: Movie
Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master "needs" their work. When Regula's brother is fired from where he has worked for 61 years, he settles down at their little place... An attack against the archaism of the spanish country of the 60s.
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Una mujer y un cobarde
Title: Una mujer y un cobarde
Released: February 17, 1979
Type: Movie
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Trauma
Title: Trauma
Character: Veronica
Released: September 11, 1978
Type: Movie
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. As night falls, a psychotic, razor-wielding killer begins stalking the bed and breakfast, brutally slashing the throats of its most sex-crazed guests, whose bodies and luggage then mysteriously disappear the following morning...
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Avisa a Curro Jiménez
Title: Avisa a Curro Jiménez
Character: Henriette
Released: September 4, 1978
Type: Movie
Córdoba, Spain. Lord Killarney, representative of the British Museum, acquires an Arabic incunabulum at an auction; but he is murdered and the book disappears. All suspicions fall on El Lince, an antique dealer with a shady background, who asks his nephew to warn Curro Jiménez.
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Deseo carnal
Title: Deseo carnal
Character: Margot
Released: August 27, 1978
Type: Movie
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The Frenchman's Garden
Title: The Frenchman's Garden
Character: Charo
Released: June 4, 1978
Type: Movie
"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. But Juan Andrés Aldije Monmeja was not your usual jolly innkeeper. He ran an illegal gambling den and pimped out the waitresses who worked for him. Deciding there were easier and quicker ways to exploit his customers, The Frenchman started slaughtering them, stealing their money and burying their corpses in the garden at the back of his inn. It was not long before people started asking questions...
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Pasión inconfesable
Title: Pasión inconfesable
Character: Adela
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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Las marginadas
Title: Las marginadas
Character: Cristina
Released: June 8, 1977
Type: Movie
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Las desarraigadas
Title: Las desarraigadas
Character: Andrea Ray
Released: May 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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Sexy... amor y fantasía
Title: Sexy... amor y fantasía
Character: Ángela
Released: April 11, 1977
Type: Movie
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The Transsexual
Title: The Transsexual
Character: Lona
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Sympathetic look at the tragic life of cabaret singer Lorna, who was born a man but really just wants to be a woman. She meets a man who loves her but she can't tell him the truth and decides instead to get an operation so she'll be all woman.
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El erotismo y la informática
Title: El erotismo y la informática
Character: Adela Martínez
Released: November 29, 1976
Type: Movie
A software engineer develops an algorithm to succeed on dating womans
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The Waitresses
Title: The Waitresses
Character: Susana
Released: November 19, 1976
Type: Movie
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Title: La saga de los Rius
Character: Lula
Released: November 7, 1976
Type: TV
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La nueva Marilyn
Title: La nueva Marilyn
Character: Teresa
Released: September 19, 1976
Type: Movie
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Sábado, chica, motel ¡qué lío aquel!
Title: Sábado, chica, motel ¡qué lío aquel!
Character: Elisa
Released: September 12, 1976
Type: Movie
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Fango
Title: Fango
Character: Marion
Released: April 9, 1976
Type: Movie
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La iniciación en el amor
Title: La iniciación en el amor
Character: Licenia
Released: February 6, 1976
Type: Movie
spanish movie
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Al fin solos, pero...
Title: Al fin solos, pero...
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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La noche de los cien pájaros
Title: La noche de los cien pájaros
Character: Mónica
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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The Lively Vampires of Vögel
Title: The Lively Vampires of Vögel
Character: Ethel
Released: November 16, 1975
Type: Movie
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. A group of stranded entertainers take shelter in the remote European castle and the Count is naturally delighted to receive them…
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El último tango en Madrid
Title: El último tango en Madrid
Released: August 11, 1975
Type: Movie
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Valley of the Dancing Widows
Title: Valley of the Dancing Widows
Character: María
Released: May 22, 1975
Type: Movie
German comedy/western from 1975
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Strip-tis a la inglesa
Title: Strip-tis a la inglesa
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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Una mujer de cabaret
Title: Una mujer de cabaret
Character: Laura
Released: December 2, 1974
Type: Movie
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Sex o no sex
Title: Sex o no sex
Character: Chica sexy
Released: September 5, 1974
Type: Movie
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. Unfortunately, the doctor will end up confessing that he can not help, because he lives with a doll that has become his companion sentimental.
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Bloody Vacation
Title: Bloody Vacation
Character: Sharon
Released: September 2, 1974
Type: Movie
Crime film.
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Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata
Title: Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata
Character: Novella Ferraris
Released: August 14, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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Los fríos senderos del crimen
Title: Los fríos senderos del crimen
Character: Helen
Released: July 7, 1974
Type: Movie
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Los Kalatrava contra el imperio del karate
Title: Los Kalatrava contra el imperio del karate
Character: Ágata
Released: March 18, 1974
Type: Movie
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El último viaje
Title: El último viaje
Character: Cati
Released: February 20, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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Onofre
Title: Onofre
Character: Asunción
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Onofre, who is forty years old, is still a virgin. He's going to put great efforts to leave this state...
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The Deadly Triangle
Title: The Deadly Triangle
Character: Margot
Released: December 10, 1973
Type: Movie
Inspired by "The diabolical" by Clouzot. The life of a woman becomes a sinister nightmare due to the plan drawn up by her husband.
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Ella (Trágica obsesión)
Title: Ella (Trágica obsesión)
Released: December 7, 1973
Type: Movie
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Me has hecho perder el juicio
Title: Me has hecho perder el juicio
Character: Charo
Released: October 18, 1973
Type: Movie
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Three Supermen of the West
Title: Three Supermen of the West
Character: Yolanda / Agata
Released: August 28, 1973
Type: Movie
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. But the treasures vanish when they try to take them into their time.
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Tequila!
Title: Tequila!
Character: Ingrid Cogan
Released: May 25, 1973
Type: Movie
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. His only son, George, is in love with the daughter of Rush, his most angry enemy. And ... coincidentally, Shosena and "Jaguar" to justify their stay in the village, get to work for him.
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Knife of Ice
Title: Knife of Ice
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1972
Type: Movie
As a thirteen year old, Martha Caldwell witnessed the death of her parents in a terrible railway accident. Barely surviving the tragedy herself, Martha was struck dumb due to the shock. Now an adult, the still mute Martha lives with her uncle Ralph in the Spanish countryside. Martha's cousing Jenny arrives to be with the family but is quickly stabbed to death. It appears that a sex maniac is roaming the countryside; killing pretty young girls. The already traumatized Martha seems likely to be the next victim but the case turns out to be far more complicated than it would first seem.
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The Masked Thief
Title: The Masked Thief
Character: Antonietta Pickford
Released: September 5, 1971
Type: Movie
Bill Nolan, Sheriff of Ockland, receives a telegram informing him of the arrival of a stagecoach with federal bank securities. Together with Judge Finley he organizes the custody of the stagecoach but it is attacked anyway and suspicion falls on the sheriff by his strange actions alone. The confidence of his assistants is weakened and everything gets complicated when he is accused of rape and one of his assistants is found dead. His only hope is to discover the masked bandit.
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De espaldas a la puerta
Title: De espaldas a la puerta
Character: Princesa
Released: November 12, 1959
Type: Movie
Inspector Simón and Inspector Arévalo investigate the stabbing of a nightclub employee.