Blanca Estrada

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 Ágata Lys [es] and Yolanda Ríos.^[1] The next year she went to work as a presenter of the Valerio Lazarov variety show ¡Señoras y señores! [es]

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] Historia de 'S' [es] (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] Lib [es], 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 Paisaje con figuras [es] 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 Manuel Tejada [es], 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 Alejo García [es], who disappeared in 2008 at age 71.^[13]

After living for a while in the United States, Estrada currently^[when?] resides in Málaga, completely away from the artistic world.

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