
Ágata Lys
Known for ActingBorn 1953-12-03Died 2021-11-12Valladolid, 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 mallofréRead more
Movies & web series
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An Internal Affair
1996 · Movie
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Una mujer y un cobarde
1979 · Movie
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Bloody Vacation
1974 · Movie
★ 8.5View details →
El último tango en Madrid
1975 · Movie
★ 8.0View details →
Mala uva
2004 · Movie
★ 7.7View details →
Cachitos de hierro y cromo
2013 · Series
★ 8.0View details →
Los fríos senderos del crimen
1974 · Movie
★ 7.8View details →
The Holy Innocents
1984 · Movie
★ 7.4View details →
Family
1996 · Movie
★ 7.5View details →
The Masked Thief
1971 · Movie
★ 7.0View details →
Pasión inconfesable
1978 · Movie
★ 7.0View details →
Valley of the Dancing Widows
1975 · Movie
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De espaldas a la puerta
1959 · Movie
★ 6.7View details →
Al fin solos, pero...
1976 · Movie
★ 6.4View details →
El último viaje
1974 · Movie
★ 6.0View details →
Barefoot in the Kitchen
2013 · Movie
★ 6.3View details →
Three Supermen of the West
1973 · Movie
★ 6.2View details →
The Return of the Musketeers
1989 · Movie
★ 6.1View details →
Knife of Ice
1972 · Movie
★ 6.0View details →
Tequila!
1973 · Movie
★ 5.8View details →
Avisa a Curro Jiménez
1978 · Movie
★ 5.8View details →
The Frenchman's Garden
1978 · Movie
★ 5.5View details →
Trauma
1978 · Movie
★ 5.5View details →
Los Kalatrava contra el imperio del karate
1974 · Movie
★ 5.2View details →
Taxi
1996 · Movie
★ 5.0View details →
Deseo carnal
1978 · Movie
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The Lively Vampires of Vögel
1975 · Movie
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Sex o no sex
1974 · Movie
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Me has hecho perder el juicio
1973 · Movie
★ 4.6View details →
Love in Difficult Times
2005 · Series
★ 4.5View details →
Kill Me Tender
2004 · Movie
★ 4.8View details →
La noche de los cien pájaros
1976 · Movie
★ 4.8View details →
El erotismo y la informática
1976 · Movie
★ 4.7View details →
Las marginadas
1977 · Movie
★ 4.7View details →
Onofre
1974 · Movie
★ 4.7View details →
La nueva Marilyn
1976 · Movie
★ 4.5View details →
Ella (Trágica obsesión)
1973 · Movie
★ 4.3View details →
Las desarraigadas
1977 · Movie
★ 4.3View details →
Fango
1976 · Movie
★ 4.3View details →
Sábado, chica, motel ¡qué lío aquel!
1976 · Movie
★ 4.3View details →
Sexy... amor y fantasía
1977 · Movie
★ 4.3View details →
Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata
1974 · Movie
★ 4.0View details →
Corazón de bombón
2001 · Movie
★ 4.3View details →
The Deadly Triangle
1973 · Movie
★ 4.2View details →
The Transsexual
1977 · Movie
★ 4.0View details →
The Waitresses
1976 · Movie
★ 3.8View details →
Una mujer de cabaret
1974 · Movie
★ 3.7View details →
Strip-tis a la inglesa
1975 · Movie