Bárbara Rey
Born
María García García

(1950-02-02) 2 February 1950
OccupationActress
Years active1969-present

Bárbara Rey (Totana, Murcia, Spain, 2 February 1950) is a Spanish film and television actress.[1] She is the daughter of Andrés García Valenzuela and Salvadora García Molina.

Rey represented Spain at the 21st annual Miss World pageant under her original name María García.

Her real fame came in 1975 with the TV program Palmarés which made her a sex-symbol. After that she appeared in many revues in theatres. In the 1970s she became an icon of the destape films (films where Spaniards could see naked women in film for the first time now that Francoist censorship have ended).[2]

In 1980 she married lion tamer Ángel Cristo with whom she had two children, Ángel (1981) and Sofía Cristo (1983). She collaborated with him in his circus.[3] They divorced in 1988.

In the 1980s she appeared in many revues and TV shows such as Primera función (1989) or Pero ¿esto qué es? (1989) Since the 2000s she became a regular guest of gossip TV shows and she also appeared as contestant in some reality shows such as Esta cocina es un infierno, in Telecinco,[4] or Acorralados.

Work

Filmography

Television

as host
  • Especial nochevieja (1975)
  • Palmarés (1976)
  • Esto es espectáculo (1994-1996)
  • En casa de Bárbara (2000-2005)
  • Murcia, qué hermosa eres (2005)

References

  1. Mira p.114
  2. Sáez, Sara (18 February 2014). "Las reinas del destape español". elmundo.es (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial Información General S.L.U. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
  3. Rodríguez, Ana (8 May 2010). "El domador que jugó a malabares con su vida". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
  4. Baragaño, Techu (14 March 2006). "Tele 5 precipita el cierre de 'Esta cocina es un infierno'". elpais.com (in Spanish). Prisa. Retrieved 14 May 2022.

Bibliography

  • Mira, Alberto. The A to Z of Spanish Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.
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