Lina Romay

Known for ActingBorn 1954-06-25Died 2012-02-15Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Girl with the Red Lips

Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie

Para las nenas, leche calentita

Las chuponas

Phollastía

El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa

Fly Story

Call Him Jess

Falo Crest

See you later Cowabunga: La maldición del cenachero diabólico!

Sida, la peste del siglo XX

Bangkok, City of the Dead

Un pito para tres

A Crack for Two

Blood on My Shoes

Sexual Perversions of a Married Woman

Entre pitos anda el juego

Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included

Lilian, the Perverted Virgin

La última película de Jess Franco

El fontanero, su mujer... y otras cosas de meter

Don Quixote

Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre

Jess Franco's Perversion

Slave of Crime

Night of the Skull

El huésped de la niebla

Queridos monstruos

Jack the Ripper

Faceless

What a Honeymoon

Justine and the Whip

Sex Is Crazy

Sex Apocalypse

Downtown

Celestine

The House of Lost Women

How Much Does a Spy Make?

Rolls-Royce Baby

Erotic Symphony

The Voyeur and the Exhibitionist

They Do Everything

Esmeralda Bay

Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties

Bahia Blanca

Doriana Grey

Death Karate in Torremolinos

The Inconfessable Orgies of Emmanuelle