Cristina Galbó Sánchez (born 17 January 1950) is a Spanish actress who achieved moderate fame in Europe during the late 1960s and early 1970s, making a name for herself in film mostly for European

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s. She started her career with a young age in the film ''Aquella joven de blanco'' in a leading role, which is about

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. In 1963 she appeared in '' Del rosa al amarillo'', directed by

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, who also directed ''Suéltate el pelo'', about

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, where she also had a role (Manuel Summers married her sister Beatriz Galbó and got a daughter named Cheyenne). She also appeared in ''Los chicos del Preu'', she played the couple of Palomo Linares in ''Nuevo en esta plaza'', and a lover of

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in ''Palabras de amor''. In 1967 she appeared in '' Dove si spara di più'', a

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directed by

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and starring Peter Lee Lawrence, with whom she married two years later in 1969. They moved to Rome and got a child named David Hyrenbach. Arguably her best-known role is as "Elizabeth Seccles", a boarding school girl having an affair with a married professor of

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and

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, in the 1972

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, ''

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'' A recent DVD release of her 1975 film ''

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'', the most notable work of

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(a friend and associate of

film master

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) has presented her controversial work in that more obscure representative of the Italian horror genre. Cozzi mentions on his DVD commentary for the film how Galbó was uncomfortable with the film's most disturbing scene, the killer's rape of her kidnapped and abused character. Galbó also has a significant role in another boarding school shocker,

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's 1969 Spanish film '' The House That Screamed'', and in '' Cosa avete fatto a Solange?'' (1972). Peter Lee Lawrence died in 1974, and in 1988 she retired. She moved to California and opened a flamenco dancing academy, where she is working until today.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Galbo, Cristina 1950 births Living people Spanish film actresses Actresses from Madrid 20th-century Spanish actresses