Azucena Hernández

Azucena Hernández (born Azucena Hernández Iglesias)[1] is a Spanish actress known for her work in cinema, stage and television. She was born in Seville, Andalusia, March 22, 1960.[2] Her artistic career began in the late 1970s and flourished during early years of the 1980s. Her career was cut short in 1986 from a debilitating car crash that left her paralyzed.

Biography

Azucena had a brief period of activity as a model, and on 3 August 1977 she was elected Miss Catalonia in the town of Agramunt.[3]

She lived for some years in the municipality of Blanes, and later moved to Madrid starting her career as an actress in 1978 in an operetta and in the movie Las eróticas vacaciones de Stela,[4] as well as some erotic productions of a subgenre known in Spain as S-Films which was very popular in the late 1970s. Azucena also played some roles in satirical films.

In 1980 she starred in the horror film El Retorno del Hombre Lobo,[5] directed by Paul Naschy. This film was exported to several countries under the titles The Craving and The Night of the Werewolf which gave Azucena some fame abroad, popularity later revived through Internet forums.

In the early part of the 1980s, she continued as a stage actress, taking part in the play Enrique IV, a Spanish adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's Enrico IV original.[6] She also appeared in several television broadcasts, working first in Anthology of Zarzuela by Fernando Garcia de la Vega, where she participated at some zarzuelas, Spanish kind of semi-operatic plays.

Her media career was truncated by a serious car accident in Las Rozas de Madrid, on the night of 15 to 16 October 1986, suffering severe spinal cord injuries.[7]

Since 1986 she has made a few appearances on television about the harsh adaptations she has had to make as a result of her disability.[8][9]

References

  1. ↑ La Vanguardia 4 August 1977, page 30.
  2. ↑ Azucena´s entry in the Internet Movie Database, retrieved 4 February 2012
  3. ↑ La Vanguardia 4 August 1977, page 30.
  4. ↑ La Vanguardia 12 November 1978, page 60.
  5. ↑ El Retorno del Hombre Lobo´s entry in The Internet Movie Database, retrieved 4 February 2012
  6. ↑ ABC, 18 September 1986, page 104.
  7. ↑ ABC, 17 October 1986, page 79.
  8. ↑ La Vanguardia 14 April 1989, page 80, data on a Televisión Española broadcast about paraplegia
  9. ↑ La Vanguardia 3 March 1996. Data on "Amb el cor a la má" broadcast in "Revista" supplement, page 5.

External links

Azucena Hernandez at the Internet Movie Database

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