Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1951-07-10 (Age: 75)
Place of Birth
Andújar, Jaén, Spain
María José Cantudo
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 (27)
La ópera rock Jesucristo Superstar: un hito en la historia del musical español
2018
The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry
2010
Sangre en el Caribe
1985
Piernas cruzadas
1984
Inseminación artificial
1984
Love Is a Strange Game
1983
Life, Love and Death
1982
Las chicas del bingo
1982
The Ambitious Lover
1982
Bordello
1981
The Frenchman's Garden
1978
Marked by Men
1977
Pasión
1977
The Kidnapping
1976
