María José Cantudo
Acting • Born 1951-07-10
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
34 credits
Horror Rises from the Tomb
Movie • 1973
Chantal
Autopsy
Movie • 1973
Mrs. Vincent
Las delicias de los verdes años
Movie • 1976
Herminia
Las chicas del bingo
Movie • 1982
María
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
Movie • 1973
(uncredited)
Seven Jackals
Movie • 1974
Piernas cruzadas
Movie • 1984
Lucerito Rioja / Rosario de la Mota
The Lively Vampires of Vögel
Movie • 1975
Laura
The Shameful Secret of a Good Boy
Movie • 1976
Ana
Blood and Passion
Movie • 1976
Juana Ríos
The Kidnapping
Movie • 1976
Marisa
Marked by Men
Movie • 1977
Carmen
The Frenchman's Garden
Movie • 1978
Andrea
Pasión
Movie • 1977
Isabel
The Ambitious Lover
Movie • 1982
Anna
The Killer Is Not Alone
Movie • 1975
Sara
Sangre en el Caribe
Movie • 1985
Julia
Life, Love and Death
Movie • 1982
Flavia
Los hijos de...
Movie • 1976
Rocío
Señoritas de uniforme
Movie • 1976
Manuela
Inseminación artificial
Movie • 1984
Alicia Jordán
Bordello
Movie • 1981
Esther
The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry
Movie • 2010
Self
El último proceso en París
Movie • 1974
Dennis
Love Is a Strange Game
Movie • 1983
Los días de Cabirio
Movie • 1971
Chica de la boîte Perversión (uncredited)
La ópera rock Jesucristo Superstar: un hito en la historia del musical español
Movie • 2018
Self
Desembraga a fondo
Movie • 1978
María José Cantudo
Cuéntame cómo pasó
TV • 2001
Susana de Ramírez Sañudo
La que se avecina
TV • 2007
María José Cantudo
La Comedia Musical Española
TV • 1985
La Comedia Musical Española
TV • 1985
Fifí
La Comedia Musical Española
TV • 1985
Emérita
Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez
TV • 2017
Self - Interviewee