María José Cantudo
Born: 1951-07-10 in Andújar, Jaén, Spain
Known For: Acting
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
2017
- Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez as Self - Interviewee
2010
- The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry as Self
2007
- La que se avecina as María José Cantudo
2001
- Cuéntame cómo pasó as Susana de Ramírez Sañudo
1985
1984
- Piernas cruzadas as Lucerito Rioja / Rosario de la Mota
- Inseminación artificial as Alicia Jordán
1982
- The Ambitious Lover as Anna
- Las chicas del bingo as María
- Life, Love and Death as Flavia
1981
- Bordello as Esther
1978
- The Frenchman's Garden as Andrea
- Desembraga a fondo as María José Cantudo
1977
- Pasión as Isabel
- Marked by Men as Carmen
1976
- The Kidnapping as Marisa
- Blood and Passion as Juana Ríos
- Los hijos de... as Rocío
- Señoritas de uniforme as Manuela
- The Shameful Secret of a Good Boy as Ana
- Las delicias de los verdes años as Herminia
1975
- The Killer Is Not Alone as Sara
- The Lively Vampires of Vögel as Laura
1974
- El último proceso en París as Dennis
- Seven Jackals
1973
- Autopsy as Mrs. Vincent
- Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo as (uncredited)
- Horror Rises from the Tomb as Chantal
1971
- Los días de Cabirio as Chica de la boîte Perversión (uncredited)