Azucena Hernández
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Azucena Hernández
Azucena Hernández Iglesias,[1] known as Azucena Hernández, is a Spanish cinema, theatre and television actress, born in Seville, Andalusia, March 22, 1960.[2] Her artistic career started in the late 1970s and flourished during early years of the 1980 decade.
Biography
Azucena had a brief activity as a model, and in August 3, 1977 she was elected Miss Catalonia in the town of Agramunt.[3]
She lived some years in the municipality of Blanes, and later moved to Madrid starting her career as an actress in 1978 in an operetta and in the movie "Las eróticas vacaciones de Stela",[4] and some erotic productions of a subgenre known in Spain as S-Films very popular in the late 1970s. Azucena also played some roles in satyrical films.
In 1980 she starred in the horror film El Retorno del Hombre Lobo,[5] directed by Paul Naschy. This film was exported to several countries under the titles "The Craving" and "The Night of the Werewolf" which gave Azucena some fame abroad, popularity later revived through Internet forums.
In the first years of 1980 decade, she continued as a theatre actress, taking part in the play Enrique IV, Spanish adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's Enrico IV original.[6] He also appeared in several television broadcasts, working first in "Anthology of Zarzuela" by Fernando Garcia de la Vega, where he participated at some zarzuelas, Spanish kind of semi-operatic plays.
Her media career was truncated by a serious car accident[7] in Las Rozas de Madrid, the night from 15 to October 16, 1986, suffering severe spinal cord injuries.
From 1986 she has made a few appearances on television about the harsh adaptation to her disability.[8][9]
References
- ^ La Vanguardia August 4th, 1977, page 30.
- ^ Azucena´s entry in the Internet Movie Database, retrieved February 4th, 2012
- ^ La Vanguardia August 4th, 1977, page 30.
- ^ La Vanguardia November 12nd, 1978, page 60.
- ^ El Retorno del Hombre Lobo´s entry in The Internet Movie Database, retrieved February 4th, 2012
- ^ ABC (newspaper), September 18th 1986, page 104.
- ^ ABC (newspaper), October 17th 1986, page 79.
- ^ La Vanguardia April 14th, 1989, page 80, data on a Televisión Española broadcast about paraplegia
- ^ La Vanguardia March 3rd, 1996. Data on "Amb el cor a la má" broadcast in "Revista" supplement, page 5.
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