Name
Lina Romay
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1954-06-25
Deathday
2012-02-15 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Biography
Romay was born in Barcelona in 1954. Following graduation from high school, she studied the arts, married actor/photographer Ramon Ardid/ Raymond Hardy (they later divorced in 1978), and began acting in stage productions. She began appearing in Jesús Franco's films from the time that they met in 1972. She appeared in more than a hundred feature films, most of them directed by Franco. Among the better known of her horror films are The Bare Breasted Countess (a.k.a. Female Vampire) (1973), Barbed Wire Dolls (1975) and Jack the Ripper (1976).
She took the name Lina Romay from the actress and jazz artist from the 1940s. Although Romay was listed in the credits of several of Franco's films as a co-director, actor Antonio Mayans stated in a recent interview that Franco used to credit her in that manner for business reasons, although she never actually co-directed any of their films together. She did however contribute occasional story ideas and assist in the editing of some films and trailers.
Lina Romay and Jesús Franco lived as a couple for close to four decades, but only officially married on April 25, 2008. She died from cancer at the age of 57 on 15 February 2012, in Málaga, Spain. Franco died soon after in 2013.
Known For
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Betsy Norman is a happy assistant at a luxurious Spanish hotel. Shiela, the hotel owner, c...
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A man is on safari in the jungle with his wife and daughter when the wife gets eaten and t...
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A popular American novelist, who has written her first non-fiction work about the politica...
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Jess Franco film about a woman returning home from an insane asylum only to discover her h...
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Central America in 1915. It is the age of revolutions, tyranny, captains and colonels in a...
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Twenty years after seducing a businessman, a demonic temptress lays claim to the man's dau...
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The lovely Laura, on a modelling job in South Africa, is kidnapped by a gang who carry her...
- 1973 The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein as Esmeralda
- 1998 Lust for Frankenstein as Moira Frankenstein
- 1975 Sexy Erotic Job as Loulou Laverne
- 1999 Vampire Blues as Marga
- 1998 Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula as Mari Cookie / Tarantula
- 1983 Revenge in the House of Usher as Helen
- 2002 Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie as Herself
- 2001 Journey into Perversion as Herself
- 2014 Falks Frauen as (archive footage)
- 2000 Blind Target as Tora
- 1999 Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell as Nelly Smith / Tsai Ming
- 2001 Vampire Junction as Mados
- 1976 Barbed Wire Dolls as Maria da Guerra
- 1977 Kiss Me Killer as Moira Ray
- 1974 Night of the Skull as Rita Derian
- 1975 Female Vampire as Countess Irina Karlstein
- 1986 Alone Against Terror as Melissa
- 1985 White Jungle Slave as Karate Student
- 1982 Mansion of the Living Dead as Candy
- 1986 Golden Temple Amazons as Cameo
- 1983 Diamonds of Kilimandjaro as Hermine
- 1983 Cries of Pleasure as Julia
- 1974 The Greedy Ones as Alba / Bianca
- 1997 Tender Flesh as Mrs. Radeck
- 1981 Jailhouse Wardress as Maria
- 1981 Sex Is Crazy as Mrs. Foncesca
- 2014 Miss Lina und ihr Chauffeur as Self (archive footage)
- 1986 Lulu's Talking Ass as Lulú
- 1980 Erotic Symphony as Martine de Bressac
- 1976 Jack the Ripper as Marika Stevenson
- 1975 Downtown as Cynthia
- 1978 Women Without Innocence as Margarita Martin
- 1983 Macumba Sexual as Alice Brooks
- 1984 Lilian, the Perverted Virgin as Irina
- 1975 Women Behind Bars as Shirley Fields
- 1983 Cecilia as Cabaret Owner/Performer
- 1975 Exorcism as Anne
- 1985 Judoka Shadow versus Doctor Wong as Maggie
- 1976 Midnight Party as Sylvia
- 2002 Incubus as Rosa Harker
- 1974 Lorna, the Exorcist as Linda Mariel
- 1976 Doriana Grey as Doriana Gray/Doriana's Twin Sister
- 2010 Paula-Paula as Alma Pereira
- 1975 Rolls-Royce Baby as Rolls-Royce Baby
- 1979 They Do Everything as Nini
- 1980 White Cannibal Queen as Ana
- 1975 Countess Perverse as Silvia Aguado
- 1999 Red Silk as Gina
- 1999 Broken Dolls as Tona
- 1994 Downtown Heat as Angela
- 1974 Celestine as Célestine
- 2000 Helter Skelter
- 1977 Slaves as Madame Arminda
- 2005 Jess Franco's Perversion as Mme Villeblanche
- 2002 Killer Barbys vs. Dracula as Irina von Karstein
- 1982 Sex Apocalypse as Ruth
- 1973 Tender and Perverse Emmanuelle as Greta Douglas
- 2014 Queridos monstruos as Self
- 1986 Fly Story
- 1975 The Hot Nights of Linda as Olivia Steiner
- 2013 La última película de Jess Franco as Self
- 2005 Jess Franco's Passion
- 1980 Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties as Cecile
- 1974 The Lustful Amazons as Yuka
- 2000 Call Him Jess as Herself
- 2003 On the Threshold to Another World as Herself
- 1973 Lovers of Devil's Island
- 1981 El fontanero, su mujer... y otras cosas de meter as Julia
- 1987 Falo Crest as Melissa
- 1987 Thong Girls as Lola Clavijo
- 1981 Sexual Perversions of a Married Woman as George's Mother
- 1981 The Girls of the Copacabana as Lia
- 1980 Wicked Memoirs of Eugenie as Sultana
- 1975 The Ticklish Ones as Loulou
- 1986 The Voyeur and the Exhibitionist as The Exhibitionist
- 1978 Cocktail spécial as Martine
- 1984 A Crack for Two as Agent 69
- 1987 Phollastía as Barbara
- 1983 The Blues of Pop Street as Genara Johnny Walker 'Butterfly'
- 1976 The Troublemakers as Pina
- 1983 The House of Lost Women as Desdémona
- 1983 The Hotel of Love Affairs as Eva Bombón
- 1981 Pick-Up Girls as Suzy
- 1983 Blood on My Shoes as Paquita la Fina
- 1985 Bangkok, City of the Dead as Aminia
- 1986 The Last from Philippines as Cecilia Muro
- 1992 El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa
- 1993 Jungle of Fear
- 1986 Girl with the Red Lips as Terry Morgan
- 1987 Slave of Crime as Tsai Chin
- 1983 Black Boots, Leather Whip as Lina
- 1983 Intimate Confessions of an Exhibitionist as Candy
- 1983 The Night Of Open Sex as Moira
- 1976 Shining Sex as Cynthia
- 1986 Entre pitos anda el juego as Candy
- 1974 How to Seduce a Virgin as Adèle
- 1973 The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff as Sweet Davey Brown's Girlfriend
- 1984 How Much Does a Spy Make? as Ana
- 1986 Para las nenas, leche calentita as Chelo Cucufate
- 1986 Sida, la peste del siglo XX
- 2007 Triple X Selects: The Best of Lezsploitation as (archive footage)
- 2003 Red Venice
- 1986 Fury in the Tropics as Marga Lopez
- 1984 Night Has a Thousand Desires as Irina
- 1982 My Pussy is the Best as Elisa
- 1979 Justine and the Whip as Justine
- 2003 Death Karate in Torremolinos
- 2004 See you later Cowabunga: La maldición del cenachero diabólico!
- 2007 Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre as Mrs. Steele
- 1979 The Sadist of Notre Dame as Anne
- 1985 Dirty Game in Casablanca as Woman Asking for Autograph
- 1984 Lonely Road as Eva / Adriana
- 1978 Love Letters of a Nun as María
- 1976 The Erotic Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
- 2014 Call Me Jess Redux as Herself
- 1985 Un pito para tres
- 1973 The Other Side of the Mirror as Marie Madeleine Whitman (French version only)
- 1980 What a Honeymoon as Yolanda
- Soon El misterio del castillo rojo
- 1989 Esmeralda Bay as Hotelier
- 1977 Greta, the Mad Butcher as Juana
- 1984 Bahia Blanca as María
- 2005 Snakewoman as Dr. Van Helsing
- 2010 Macumba sexual: Voodoo Jess as Self
- 1983 The Bizarre World of Jess Franco as Herself
- 1988 Faceless as Mme Orloff
- 1986 Las chuponas as Lulu Laverne
- 1975 Sexorcismes
- 1987 Trapped Women as Marga
