Helga Liné (pronounced [liˈne]; born Helga Lina Stern on 14 July
1932) is a German-born Portuguese-Spanish film actress and circus
acrobat best known for her work in the horror genre of film. She made
132 appearances mostly in film between 1941 and 2006, but most of her
work has been in Spanish cinema.Helga Liné was born Helga Lina Stern
on 14 July 1932 in Berlin, Germany. During the Nazi regime she fled
Germany at a young age with her family, and took refuge in Portugal.
At the age of just 9 she made her first film appearance there in the
film Porto de Abrigo. Helga was a dancer and acrobat in circus
performances in Portugal throughout the 1940s and later became a
model.In the 1950s she made further film appearances, but her career
took off after she moved to Madrid in 1960. From this point, the
red-headed actress made many appearances in the 1960s, particularly in
horror and action films. She also starred in the spaghetti westerns In
a Colt's Shadow (1965) and Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana
Will Pay (1970). Although she appeared in giallo films such as So
Sweet... So Perverse (1969), My Dear Killer (1972), Alta tensión
(1972) and Red Rings of Fear (1978), she is best known for her horror
film work. She appeared opposite Barbara Steele in Nightmare Castle
(1965), and then starred as the spy Natasha in the Gothic feature
Horror Express (1972), in the title role in The Loreley's Grasp, aka
When the Screaming Stops (1974), as a vampire countess in the erotic
film The Vampires' Night Orgy (1974), and as the leader of a Satanic
cult in Black Candles (1982). She also starred opposite Spanish horror
actor Paul Naschy in Horror Rises from the Tomb and The Mummy's
Revenge in 1973, and appeared in the 1974 Peter Fonda film Open
Season.
1932) is a German-born Portuguese-Spanish film actress and circus
acrobat best known for her work in the horror genre of film. She made
132 appearances mostly in film between 1941 and 2006, but most of her
work has been in Spanish cinema.Helga Liné was born Helga Lina Stern
on 14 July 1932 in Berlin, Germany. During the Nazi regime she fled
Germany at a young age with her family, and took refuge in Portugal.
At the age of just 9 she made her first film appearance there in the
film Porto de Abrigo. Helga was a dancer and acrobat in circus
performances in Portugal throughout the 1940s and later became a
model.In the 1950s she made further film appearances, but her career
took off after she moved to Madrid in 1960. From this point, the
red-headed actress made many appearances in the 1960s, particularly in
horror and action films. She also starred in the spaghetti westerns In
a Colt's Shadow (1965) and Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana
Will Pay (1970). Although she appeared in giallo films such as So
Sweet... So Perverse (1969), My Dear Killer (1972), Alta tensión
(1972) and Red Rings of Fear (1978), she is best known for her horror
film work. She appeared opposite Barbara Steele in Nightmare Castle
(1965), and then starred as the spy Natasha in the Gothic feature
Horror Express (1972), in the title role in The Loreley's Grasp, aka
When the Screaming Stops (1974), as a vampire countess in the erotic
film The Vampires' Night Orgy (1974), and as the leader of a Satanic
cult in Black Candles (1982). She also starred opposite Spanish horror
actor Paul Naschy in Horror Rises from the Tomb and The Mummy's
Revenge in 1973, and appeared in the 1974 Peter Fonda film Open
Season.
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