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.
129 acting credits · 14 directing credits
Acting · 129
My Pussy is the Best
1982
Cecilia
1983
Bahia Blanca
1984
Greta, the Mad Butcher
1977
Celestine
1974
Countess Perverse
1975
Pick-Up Girls
1981
Golden Temple Amazons
1986
Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties
1980
Female Vampire
1975
Thong Girls
1987
Jack the Ripper
1976
Midnight Party
1976
Downtown
1975
Erotic Symphony
1980
Barbed Wire Dolls
1976
Faceless
1988
The Hot Nights of Linda
1975
Wicked Memoirs of Eugenie
1980
White Cannibal Queen
1980
The Night Of Open Sex
1983
Mansion of the Living Dead
1982
Women Without Innocence
1978
Diamonds of Kilimandjaro
1983
How to Seduce a Virgin
1974
Lorna, the Exorcist
1974
Downtown Heat
1994
Sex Is Crazy
1981
Macumba Sexual
1983
The House of Lost Women
1983
The Other Side of the Mirror
1973
El fontanero, su mujer... y otras cosas de meter
1981
Killer Barbys vs. Dracula
2002
Exorcism
1975
Black Boots, Leather Whip
1983
Fury in the Tropics
1986
Cries of Pleasure
1983
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
1973
Sexual Perversions of a Married Woman
1981
The Lustful Amazons
1974
The Hotel of Love Affairs
1983
Tender and Perverse Emmanuelle
1973
Jailhouse Wardress
1981
Night of the Skull
1974
Slaves
1977
The Erotic Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
1976
Tender Flesh
1997
The Girls of the Copacabana
1981
Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula
1998
Blood on My Shoes
1983
Sexy Erotic Job
1975
Esmeralda Bay
1989
Night Has a Thousand Desires
1984
The Greedy Ones
1974
The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
1973
White Jungle Slave
1985
Blind Target
2000
Kiss Me Killer
1977
Love Letters of a Nun
1978
Women Behind Bars
1975
Dirty Game in Casablanca
1985
Triple X Selects: The Best of Lezsploitation
2007
Lust for Frankenstein
1998
Lovers of Devil's Island
1973
The Ticklish Ones
1975
Bangkok, City of the Dead
1985
Revenge in the House of Usher
1983
Paula-Paula
2010
La última película de Jess Franco
2013
Snakewoman
2005
Helter Skelter
2000
The Sadist of Notre Dame
1979
The Troublemakers
1976
The Last from Philippines
1986
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
1999
El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa
1992
Vampire Junction
2001
On the Threshold to Another World
2003
Incubus
2002
Sida, la peste del siglo XX
1986
Slave of Crime
1987
Judoka Shadow versus Doctor Wong
1985
Miss Lina und ihr Chauffeur
2014
Jungle of Fear
1993
Queridos monstruos
2014
See you later Cowabunga: La maldición del cenachero diabólico!
2004
Broken Dolls
1999
How Much Does a Spy Make?
1984
Sexorcismes
1975
El misterio del castillo rojo
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Vampire Blues
1999
Journey into Perversion
2001
What a Honeymoon
1980
The Blues of Pop Street
1983
Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie
2002
Death Karate in Torremolinos
2003
Call Me Jess Redux
2014
Lonely Road
1984
Red Silk
1999
Trapped Women
1987
Falks Frauen
2014
Alone Against Terror
1986
The Bizarre World of Jess Franco
1983
Macumba sexual: Voodoo Jess
2010
Girl with the Red Lips
1986
Call Him Jess
2000
Lulu's Talking Ass
1986
Lilian, the Perverted Virgin
1984
Doriana Grey
1976
Rolls-Royce Baby
1975
They Do Everything
1979
Sex Apocalypse
1982
Fly Story
1986
Falo Crest
1987
The Voyeur and the Exhibitionist
1986
Cocktail spécial
1978
A Crack for Two
1984
Phollastía
1987
Intimate Confessions of an Exhibitionist
1983
Entre pitos anda el juego
1986
Jess Franco's Perversion
2005
Jess Franco's Passion
2005
Shining Sex
1976
Para las nenas, leche calentita
1986
Red Venice
2003
Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre
2007
Justine and the Whip
1979
Un pito para tres
1985
Las chuponas
1986
Directing · 14
Thong Girls
1987
Cries of Pleasure
1983
Blind Target
2000
Vampire Junction
2001
The Voyeur and the Exhibitionist
1986
Falo Crest
1987
A Crack for Two
1984
Phollastía
1987
Intimate Confessions of an Exhibitionist
1983
Entre pitos anda el juego
1986
Express Train
1982
El huésped de la niebla
1982
Para las nenas, leche calentita
1986
Un pito para tres
1985