Ágata Lys

Personal Info

Birthday

December 3, 1953

Day of Death

2021-11-12

(67 years old)

Place of Birth

Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain

Also Known As

Agatha Lys

Margarita García San Segundo

Ágata Lys

Biography

Actress (b. Valladolid, Spain, Dec.

3, 1953). After having studied simultaneously Philosophy and Art and Speech (both careers remained unfinished), she became a household name overnight as one of the pretty and "bespectacled" hostesses of the top-rated TV contest "1, 2, 3, Responda Otra Vez", where she popularized what was going to be her early screen persona: platinum blonde-dyed hair, provocative ways and a sensuality always ready to break out. She made her film debut in 1972, at 19, and acquired an enormous popularity thanks to her tremendous sex-appeal and a clever promotion campaign that exploited a certain similarity between her looks and those of the late Marilyn Monroe to the extent of making a successful movie named precisely "The New Marilyn" (1976).