María José Cantudo
Actor
Biography
María Purificación Josefa Cantudo Porcel, known as María José Cantudo (Andújar, Jaén, July 10, 1951), is a Spanish actress and vedette. The hotelier businessman Carlos del Val encourages and supports her so that she can start an artistic career in Madrid. Her beginnings in 1971-1972 are as an advertising model and photo novel actress, a genre in which she acquires certain popularity. She began her film career in 1973 with the films El espanto surge de la tumba and Autopsia, but achieved her first success under Jorge Grau in La trastienda (1976), where she starred in the first female full nude (seen through a mirror) of Spanish cinema. In 1973 she married the singer and actor Manolo Otero, father of her only son, Manuel (b. 1974). Separated in 1978, she has been romantically linked to actor Pedro Ruiz and artistic entrepreneur Enrique Cornejo. In 2013 she is designated an honorary member of UNESCO for her philanthropic work.
Filmography
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
as (uncredited) 1973
Blood and Passion
as Juana Ríos 1976
The Frenchman's Garden
as Andrea 1978
Piernas cruzadas
as Lucerito Rioja / Rosario de la Mota 1984
The Killer Is Not Alone
as Sara 1975
Bordello
as Esther 1981
The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry
as Self 2010
Los días de Cabirio
as Chica de la boîte Perversión (uncredited) 1971
The Kidnapping
as Marisa 1976
The Ambitious Lover
as Anna 1982
Life, Love and Death
as Flavia 1982
Las chicas del bingo
as María 1982
The Lively Vampires of Vögel
as Laura 1975
Inseminación artificial
as Alicia Jordán 1984
Autopsy
as Mrs. Vincent 1973
Las delicias de los verdes años
as Herminia 1976