| Blanca Estrada | |
| Birth Place: | La Felguera, Spain |
| Occupation: | Actress, presenter |
| Spouse: | Luis Bastarrica |
Blanca Estrada (born 1950) is a Spanish retired actress and presenter best known for her roles throughout the 1970s and 1980s in 20 films classified as .
Sister of the actress Gloria Estrada and cousin of Susana Estrada, Blanca became known in 1972 as the "hostess" or "secretary" of the first season of the Televisión Española contest Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez, along with such popular faces as and Yolanda Ríos.[1] The next year she went to work as a presenter of the Valerio Lazarov variety show
Her subsequent cinematic career focused on a series of films of high erotic content, among which stand out Una vela para el diablo (1973), El libro de buen amor (1975, with Patxi Andión, considered by Ya newspaper film critic Pascual Cebollada as "a broad sample of masculine and feminine nudity, in front and behind, and a constant tension or demonstration of eroticism illustrated with obscenities"),[2] Metralleta Stein (1975), Dios bendiga cada rincón de esta casa (1977, with Lola Gaos, based on the novel Cousin Bazilio by Eça de Queirós),[3] El francotirador (1977),[4] (1979),[5] and The Cantabrians (1980), in which the young star had frequent nude and "bed scenes", which made her one of the most celebrated actresses of the moment.[6]
She also went "a little undressed"[7] in many magazines such as Play-Lady, "where she appeared in vivid leathers,"[8] , Interviú,[9] and especially Fotogramas, which she was on the cover of five times in the mid-70s.[10]
At the end of 1976, Estrada took part in the chapter of the Antonio Gala series dedicated to Mariana Pineda, broadcast by Televisión Española on 13 December.[11]
In 1982, she returned to acting under the direction of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, this time in a new chapter of the series Historias para no dormir ("El fin empezó ayer"), along with, which premiered on Spanish Television on 20 September.
Separated from Luis Bastarrica, whom she married in 1970,[12] she has had two romantic relationships, with the Radio Nacional de España broadcaster Joaquín Ocio, who died in 1994, and the journalist, who disappeared in 2008 at age 71.[13]
After living for a while in the United States, Estrada currently resides in Málaga, completely away from the artistic world.
| Year | Title | Role | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Una vela para el diablo | Norma | Eugenio Martín | |
| 1974 | Odio mi cuerpo | Elena | León Klimovsky | |
| The Ghost Galleon | Kathy | Amando de Ossorio | ||
| Open Season | Alice Rennick | Peter Collinson | ||
| La noche de la furia | Sue | |||
| 1975 | Ana | |||
| El libro de buen amor | Doña Endrina | Tomás Aznar | ||
| Todos los gritos del silencio | Michelle | Ramón Barco | ||
| Sensualidad | Lucy | |||
| 1976 | Kilma, reina de las amazonas | Kilma | Miguel Iglesias | |
| Sábado, chica, motel… ¡qué lío aquél! | Teresa | José Luis Merino | ||
| El taxista de señoras | Sergio Bergonzelli | |||
| A mí qué me importa que explote Miami | Manuel Caño | |||
| 1977 | Dios bendiga cada rincón de esta casa | Lucía | Chumy Chúmez | |
| El francotirador | Ángela | Carlos Puerto | ||
| 1978 | Las locuras de Jane | Joaquín Coll Espona | ||
| 1979 | Psiquiatra | |||
| El caminante | Madre Elvira | Paul Naschy | ||
| Father Cami's Wedding | Luisa González | Rafael Gil | ||
| Las siete magníficas y audaces mujeres | Eva | Darío Herreros | ||
| 1980 | Spoiled Children | Alicia Ortega | Rafael Gil | |
| Un cero a la izquierda | Poli | Gabriel Iglesias | ||
| The Cantabrians | Turenia | Paul Naschy | ||
| 1981 | Misterio en la isla de los monstruos | Dominique Blanchard | Juan Piquer Simón |
| Year | Title | Chapter | Role | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | "Mariana Pineda" | Mariana Pineda | |||
| 1977 | Curro Jiménez | "El prisionero de Arcos" | Camila | Mario Camus | |
| 1979 | Estudio 1 | "El caso de la mujer asesinadita" | Raquel | Federico Ruiz | |
| 1982 | Historias para no dormir | "El fin empezó ayer" | Narciso Ibáñez Serrador |