María Luisa Cela Molinero (4 March 1943 – 30 March 2019), better known by her stage name Paloma Cela, was a Spanish actress and model.

Biography

Born in

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, Spain, she started out as a model and made her cinema debut in the 1967 film ''Operación cabaretera'', directed by

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. She spent the next thirty years of her career performing mainly in

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s until the early 1990s where she began appearing more often in Sitcoms such as '' ¡Ay, Señor, Señor!'' and '' ¡Ala... Dina!''. In 1998 she starred in the

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''Tío Willy'' which was the first series in Spain starring an LGBT character. In the early 2000s she performed in a couple of plays such as the 2002 version of ''La venganza de la Petra'' and the 2003 version of ''Anacleto se divorcia'' After the mid-2000s she only appeared in gossip programs such as '' Sálvame Deluxe'' where she found herself forced to defend herself from slanderous claims made about her by journalist Lydia Lozano.

Death

Cela died at age 76 due to vascular issues. She died at Hospital La Paz in

.Paloma Cela, hospitalizada en Madrid al sufrir un complicado problema vascular

Selected filmography

*'' Forty Degrees in the Shade'' (1967) *''

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'' (1968) *'' Cry Chicago'' (1969) * ''

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'' (1969) *'' A Town Called Bastard'' (1971) * ''

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'' (1974) * '' The Legion Like Women'' (1976) *'' Manuela'' (1976) *'' Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella'' (2001)

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* 1943 births 2019 deaths Spanish film actresses Spanish television actresses Spanish female models Actresses from Madrid Deaths from cerebrovascular disease {{Model-stub