Lina Romay

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: Acting

Born: Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 1954-06-25

Died: 2012-02-15

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1973	Tender and Perverse Emmanuelle	Greta Douglas	44
2	1973	The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff	Sweet Davey Brown's Girlfriend	46
3	1973	El misterio del castillo rojo		20
4	1973	Female Vampire	Countess Irina Karlstein	44
5	1973	The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein	Esmeralda	55
6	1973	The Other Side of the Mirror	Marie Madeleine Whitman (French version only)	51
7	1973	Lovers of Devil's Island		53
8	1974	Les Gloutonnes	Alba / Bianca	28
9	1974	The Lustful Amazons	Yuka	30
10	1974	How to Seduce a Virgin	Adèle	46
11	1974	Night of the Skull	Rita Derian	62
12	1974	Celestine	Célestine	57
13	1974	Lorna, the Exorcist	Linda Mariel	50
14	1975	Women Behind Bars	Shirley Fields	45
15	1975	Sexy Erotic Job	Loulou Laverne	27
16	1975	The Hot Nights of Linda	Olivia Steiner	31
17	1975	Les chatouilleuses	Loulou	34
18	1975	Exorcism	Anne	46
19	1975	Downtown	Cynthia	58
20	1975	The Perverse Countess	Silvia Aguado	43
21	1975	Rolls-Royce Baby	Rolls-Royce Baby	51
22	1976	Doriana Gray	Doriana Gray/Doriana's Twin Sister	53
23	1976	The Erotic Adventures of Robinson Crusoe		35
24	1976	Midnight Party	Sylvia	52
25	1976	Barbed Wire Dolls	Maria da Guerra	47
26	1976	Les emmerdeuses	Pina	35
27	1976	Shining Sex	Cynthia	40
28	1976	Jack the Ripper	Marika Stevenson	59
29	1977	Greta, the Mad Butcher	Juana	47
30	1977	Kiss Me Killer	Moira Ray	43
31	1977	Slaves	Madame Arminda	51
32	1978	Women Without Innocence	Margarita Martin	45
33	1978	Cocktail spécial	Martine	40
34	1978	Love Letters of a Nun	María	10
35	1979	They Do Everything	Nini	35
36	1979	The Sadist of Notre Dame	Anne	53
37	1979	Justine and the Whip	Justine	49
38	1980	What a Honeymoon	Yolanda	57
39	1980	Erotic Symphony	Martine de Bressac	55
40	1980	Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties	Cecile	53
41	1980	Wicked Memoirs of Eugenie	Sultana	48
42	1980	White Cannibal Queen	Ana	44
43	1981	Sex Is Crazy	Mrs. Foncesca	57
44	1981	The Girls of the Copacabana	Lia	42
45	1981	Sexual Perversions of a Married Woman	George's Mother	59
46	1981	Jailhouse Wardress	Maria	37
47	1981	El fontanero, su mujer... y otras cosas de meter	Julia	62
48	1981	Pick-Up Girls	Suzy	38
49	1982	Sex Apocalypse	Ruth	53
50	1982	My Pussy is the Best	Elisa	49
51	1982	Mansion of the Living Dead	Candy	46
52	1983	The Blues of Pop Street	Genara Johnny Walker 'Butterfly'	49
53	1983	Blood on My Shoes	Paquita la Fina	58
54	1983	Black Boots, Leather Whip	Lina	51
55	1983	The Night Of Open Sex	Moira	40
56	1983	Revenge in the House of Usher	Helen	34
57	1983	Cecilia	Cabaret Owner/Performer	38
58	1983	Diamonds of Kilimandjaro	Hermine	36
59	1983	Intimate Confessions of an Exhibitionist	Candy	42
60	1983	The House of Lost Women	Desdémona	55
61	1983	Cries of Pleasure	Julia	36
62	1983	The Hotel of Love Affairs	Eva Bombón	46
63	1983	Macumba Sexual	Alice Brooks	53
64	1984	Bahia Blanca	María	54
65	1984	Camino solitario	Eva / Adriana	39
66	1984	Night Has a Thousand Desires	Irina	44
67	1984	How Much for a Spy?	Ana	50
68	1984	Lilian, the Perverted Virgin	Irina	59
69	1984	A Crack for Two	Agent 69	0
70	1985	White Jungle Slave	Karate Student	31
71	1985	Judoka Shadow versus Doctor Wong	Maggie	30
72	1985	Bangkok, City of the Dead	Aminia	0
73	1985	Dirty Game in Casablanca	Woman Asking for Autograph	38
74	1985	Un pito para tres		0
75	1986	Bragueta historia		50
76	1986	The Last from Philippines	Cecilia Muro	27
77	1986	Girl with the Red Lips	Terry Morgan	0
78	1986	Sida, la peste del siglo XX		0
79	1986	Orgasmo perverso	Marga Lopez	30
80	1986	Lulu's Talking Ass	Lulú	46
81	1986	The Voyeur and the Exhibitionist	The Exhibitionist	48
82	1986	Entre pitos anda el juego	Candy	57
83	1986	Alone Against Terror	Melissa	30
84	1986	Para las nenas, leche calentita	Chelo Cucufate	0
85	1986	Golden Temple Amazons	Cameo	42
86	1987	Phollastía	Barbara	75
87	1987	Thong Girls	Lola Clavijo	36
88	1987	Falo Crest	Melissa	53
89	1987	Slave of Crime	Tsai Chin	20
90	1988	Faceless	Mrs. Orloff	58
91	1989	Esmeralda Bay	Hotelier	44
92	1992	El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa		60
93	1993	Jungle of Fear		0
94	1994	Downtown Heat	Angela	40
95	1997	Tender Flesh	Mrs. Radeck	32
96	1998	Lust for Frankenstein	Moira Frankenstein	24
97	1998	Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula	Mari Cookie / Tarantula	38
98	1999	Vampire Blues	Marga	38
99	1999	Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell	Nelly Smith / Tsai Ming	12
100	1999	Red Silk	Gina	35
101	1999	Broken Dolls	Tona	22
102	2000	Blind Target	Tora	33
103	2000	Helter Skelter		26
104	2000	Call Him Jess	Herself	70
105	2001	Vampire Junction	Mados	14
106	2001	Journey into Perversion	Herself	0
107	2002	Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie	Herself	78
108	2002	Incubus	Rosa Harker	21
109	2002	Killer Barbys vs. Dracula	Irina von Karstein	40
110	2003	Red Venice		47
111	2003	Death Karate in Torremolinos		53
112	2003	On the Threshold to Another World	Herself	0
113	2004	See you later Cowabunga: La maldición del cenachero diabólico!		0
114	2005	Jess Franco's Perversion	Mme Villeblanche	55
115	2005	Jess Franco's Passion		42
116	2005	Snakewoman	Dr. Van Helsing	23
117	2007	Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre	Mrs. Steele	60
118	2007	Triple X Selects: The Best of Lezsploitation	(archive)	35
119	2010	Paula-Paula	Alma Pereira	42
120	2010	Macumba sexual: Voodoo Jess	Self	0
121	2013	La última película de Jess Franco	Self	60
122	2014	Falks Frauen	(archive footage)	0
123	2014	Miss Lina und ihr Chauffeur	Self (archive footage)	0
124	2014	Call Me Jess Redux	Herself	46
125	2014	Queridos monstruos	Self	55

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
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