Occupation Actress Height 1.82 m | Years active 1969- Siblings Salvador García García | |
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Other names María Margarita García García Spouse Ángel Cristo (m. 1980–1988) Children Sofía Cristo, Ángel Cristo Movies The Ghost Galleon, Little Lips, The Night of the Witches Similar Ángel Cristo, Nagore Robles, María José Cantudo, Chelo García‑Cortés, Ágata Lys | ||
Bárbara Rey (Totana, Murcia, Spain, 2 February 1950) is a Spanish film and television actress.
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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 wich 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).
In 1980 she married lion tamer Ángel Cristo whom she had two children Ángel (1981) and Sofía Cristo (1983). She collaborated with him in his circus. 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, or Acorralados.
Filmography
Television
