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María Antinea (1915 - July 29, 1991) was a Spanish actress, vedette, dancer, cupletista and tonadillera.
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Career
Antinea was born in Jaén in Andalusia in 1915. In the 1930s, Antinea joined the "Compañía campúa" of the Teatro Chueca in Madrid and began a career as a stage actress alongside the likes of Miguel de Molina, Sarita Montiel, Marga Soler, Pedrito Rico and Carmen Amaya. After moving to Argentina in 1939, Antinea found work in film when she was cast by Leopoldo Torres Ríos to make her film debut in Los pagares de Mendieta. The following year she appeared in James Bauer's Explosivo 008. In 1945 she starred in Jose Maria Galofre's Las aventuras de Frijolito y Robustiana opposite Ana Teresa Guinand, Carlos Fernandez, and Yolin del Mar. In 1950 she then starred in La Doctora Castañuelas under director Luis José Moglia Barth. Her final film was in Daniel Tinayre's The Games Men Play in 1963 in which she had a leading role opposite Luis Sandrini and Elsa Daniel. Antinea also appeared on stage in Argentina alongside the likes of Alfredo Barbieri, Tato Bores, Blanquita Amaro, Elina Colomer, Analia Gadé, Margarita Xirgu, Fernando Ochoa, Imperio Argentina, Mariano Mores, Tita Merello and Virginia Luque.
Personal life
Antinea was married to Felix Rodriguez, a bullfighter from Santander, Spain. They had a son, Felix Rodriguez Hueso. After they divorced, she moved to Argentina with her son; her mother, Pilar Hueso; and her brother, Manolo Martinez Hueso. In Argentina she met Enrique D. Kotliarenco, who became her manager. They later married and had a daughter, Maria Cristina Kotliarenco, who was born in 1955. Her husband died in 1978. She later moved to Texas in the United States, where she died on July 29, 1991.