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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 25, 1954
Died
February 15, 2012
Place of Birth
Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Also Known As
- Candy Coster
- Lulu Laverne
- Rosa María Almirall
- Rosa María Almirall Martínez
Lina Romay
14.8 Popularity
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
5.5
Self
Queridos monstruos
2014
4.6
Herself
Call Me Jess Redux
2014
🎬
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Miss Lina und ihr Chauffeur
2014
🎬
0.0
(archive footage)
Falks Frauen
2014
6.0
Self
La última película de Jess Franco
2013
🎬
0.0
Self
Macumba sexual: Voodoo Jess
2010
3.9
Alma Pereira
Paula-Paula
2010
2.7
(archive footage)
Triple X Selects: The Best of Lezsploitation
2007
6.0
Mrs. Steele
Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre
2007
2.4
Dr. Van Helsing
Snakewoman
2005
Credits
Queridos monstruos
as Self
2014
5.5
Call Me Jess Redux
as Herself
2014
4.6
🎬
Miss Lina und ihr Chauffeur
as Self (archive footage)
2014
0.0
🎬
Falks Frauen
as (archive footage)
2014
0.0
La última película de Jess Franco
as Self
2013
6.0
🎬
Macumba sexual: Voodoo Jess
as Self
2010
0.0
Paula-Paula
as Alma Pereira
2010
3.9
Triple X Selects: The Best of Lezsploitation
as (archive footage)
2007
2.7
Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre
as Mrs. Steele
2007
6.0
Snakewoman
as Dr. Van Helsing
2005
2.4
Jess Franco's Passion
2005
4.2
Jess Franco's Perversion
as Mme Villeblanche
2005
5.5
🎬
See you later Cowabunga: La maldición del cenachero diabólico!
2004
0.0
🎬
On the Threshold to Another World
as Herself
2003
0.0
Death Karate in Torremolinos
2003
4.8
Red Venice
2003
4.3
Killer Barbys vs. Dracula
as Irina von Karstein
2002
3.4
Incubus
as Rosa Harker
2002
1.8
🎬
Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie
as Herself
2002
7.8
Journey into Perversion
as Herself
2001
0.0
Vampire Junction
as Mados
2001
1.6
Call Him Jess
as Herself
2000
7.0
Helter Skelter
2000
2.4
Blind Target
as Tora
2000
2.9
Broken Dolls
as Tona
1999
2.0
Vampire Blues
as Marga
1999
3.6
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
as Nelly Smith / Tsai Ming
1999
1.3
Red Silk
as Gina
1999
2.7
Lust for Frankenstein
as Moira Frankenstein
1998
2.7
Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula
as Mari Cookie / Tarantula
1998
3.4
Tender Flesh
as Mrs. Radeck
1997
2.9
Downtown Heat
as Angela
1994
3.2
🎬
Jungle of Fear
1993
0.0
El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa
1992
6.0
Esmeralda Bay
as Hotelier
1989
4.4
Faceless
as Mme Orloff
1988
5.7
Slave of Crime
as Tsai Chin
1987
2.0
Falo Crest
as Melissa
1987
6.5
Thong Girls
as Lola Clavijo
1987
3.1
Phollastía
as Barbara
1987
7.5
Golden Temple Amazons
as Cameo
1986
4.1
Para las nenas, leche calentita
as Chelo Cucufate
1986
0.0
Alone Against Terror
as Melissa
1986
3.0
Entre pitos anda el juego
as Candy
1986
5.7
The Voyeur and the Exhibitionist
as The Exhibitionist
1986
4.8
Lulu's Talking Ass
as Lulú
1986
4.4
🎬
Las chuponas
as Lulu Laverne
1986
0.0
Fury in the Tropics
as Marga Lopez
1986
2.8
The Last from Philippines
as Cecilia Muro
1986
2.3
🎬
Sida, la peste del siglo XX
1986
0.0
Girl with the Red Lips
as Terry Morgan
1986
0.0
Fly Story
1986
5.0
🎬
Un pito para tres
1985
0.0
Dirty Game in Casablanca
as Woman Asking for Autograph
1985
3.3
Bangkok, City of the Dead
as Aminia
1985
0.0
White Jungle Slave
as Karate Student
1985
2.9
Judoka Shadow versus Doctor Wong
as Maggie
1985
3.0
A Crack for Two
as Agent 69
1984
0.0
Lilian, the Perverted Virgin
as Irina
1984
5.9
How Much Does a Spy Make?
as Ana
1984
5.0
Night Has a Thousand Desires
as Irina
1984
4.1
Camino solitario
as Eva / Adriana
1984
3.4
Bahia Blanca
as María
1984
5.1
Macumba Sexual
as Alice Brooks
1983
5.0
The Hotel of Love Affairs
as Eva Bombón
1983
4.0
Cries of Pleasure
as Julia
1983
3.9
The House of Lost Women
as Desdémona
1983
5.3
Intimate Confessions of an Exhibitionist
as Candy
1983
4.0
Diamonds of Kilimandjaro
as Hermine
1983
3.6
Cecilia
as Cabaret Owner/Performer
1983
4.1
Revenge in the House of Usher
as Helen
1983
3.2
The Night Of Open Sex
as Moira
1983
3.8
Black Boots, Leather Whip
as Lina
1983
4.3
Blood on My Shoes
as Paquita la Fina
1983
5.8
🎬
The Bizarre World of Jess Franco
as Herself
1983
0.0
The Blues of Pop Street
as Genara Johnny Walker 'Butterfly'
1983
4.6
Mansion of the Living Dead
as Candy
1982
4.1
My Pussy is the Best
as Elisa
1982
4.7
Sex Apocalypse
as Ruth
1982
5.4
Pick-Up Girls
as Suzy
1981
3.3
El fontanero, su mujer... y otras cosas de meter
as Julia
1981
6.2
Jailhouse Wardress
as Maria
1981
3.3
Sexual Perversions of a Married Woman
as George's Mother
1981
5.9
The Girls of the Copacabana
as Lia
1981
3.9
Sex Is Crazy
as Mrs. Foncesca
1981
5.5
White Cannibal Queen
as Ana
1980
4.3
Wicked Memoirs of Eugenie
as Sultana
1980
4.6
Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties
as Cecile
1980
5.1
Erotic Symphony
as Martine de Bressac
1980
5.4
What a Honeymoon
as Yolanda
1980
5.7
Justine and the Whip
as Justine
1979
4.9
The Sadist of Notre Dame
as Anne
1979
4.8
They Do Everything
as Nini
1979
3.5
Love Letters of a Nun
as María
1978
1.0
Cocktail spécial
as Martine
1978
4.0
Women Without Innocence
as Margarita Martin
1978
4.2
Slaves
as Madame Arminda
1977
5.0
Kiss Me Killer
as Moira Ray
1977
3.8
Greta, the Mad Butcher
as Juana
1977
4.6
Jack the Ripper
as Marika Stevenson
1976
5.8
Shining Sex
as Cynthia
1976
3.9
Les emmerdeuses
as Pina
1976
2.7
Barbed Wire Dolls
as Maria da Guerra
1976
4.6
Midnight Party
as Sylvia
1976
4.9
The Erotic Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
1976
3.0
Doriana Grey
as Doriana Gray/Doriana's Twin Sister
1976
5.2
Rolls-Royce Baby
as Rolls-Royce Baby
1975
5.3
Countess Perverse
as Silvia Aguado
1975
4.4
Downtown
as Cynthia
1975
5.5
Exorcism
as Anne
1975
4.4
Exorciseme
1975
0.0
Les chatouilleuses
as Loulou
1975
3.3
The Hot Nights of Linda
as Olivia Steiner
1975
3.1
Sexy Erotic Job
as Loulou Laverne
1975
2.2
Sexorcismes
1975
1.0
Women Behind Bars
as Shirley Fields
1975
4.2
Lorna, the Exorcist
as Linda Mariel
1974
4.8
Celestine
as Célestine
1974
5.5
Night of the Skull
as Rita Derian
1974
6.0
How to Seduce a Virgin
as Adèle
1974
4.9
The Greedy Ones
as Alba / Bianca
1974
2.4
The Lustful Amazons
as Yuka
1974
2.4
Lovers of Devil's Island
1973
4.9
The Other Side of the Mirror
as Marie Madeleine Whitman (French version only)
1973
5.1
Female Vampire
as Countess Irina Karlstein
1973
4.4
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
as Esmeralda
1973
5.0
🎬
El misterio del castillo rojo
1973
2.0
Tender and Perverse Emmanuelle
as Greta Douglas
1973
3.9
The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
as Sweet Davey Brown's Girlfriend
1973
4.2