Elena Santonja
Age: N/A | From: Madrid, Spain
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Madrid, Spain
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Movie Involvements: 3
TV Involvements: 0
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Biography
María Elena Santonja Esquivias (29 May 1932 – 17 October 2016) was a Spanish TV presenter and occasional actress. She was the host of some shows in the early days of TVE such as Entre nosotras (1958), but she reached fame as a host of the cooking show Con las manos en la masa, that lasted from 1984 to 1991. In this program she cooked food alongside many celebrities (a different one per episode) such as Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Rosa Chacel, Carlos Berlanga, Joaquín Sabina, Alaska... She also made sporadic roles as actress in films such as El verdugo (1963) by Luis García Berlanga or Crimen de doble filo (1965) by José Luis Borau. She married in 1956 with film director and scriptwriter Jaime de Armiñán whom she had 3 children: Álvaro, Eduardo and Carmen. She died on 17 October 2016 in Madrid at aged 84. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elena Santonja, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
Live Flesh
(1997) Madre de Elena (uncredited)
Todos los nombres de Sara
(2019) Self - TV Host (archive footage)
¡Jo, papá!
(1975) Elena (uncredited)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Self - TV Host (archive footage) | |
| 1997 | Madre de Elena (uncredited) | |
| 1987 | Self | |
| 1982 | N/A | |
| 1975 | Elena (uncredited) | |
| 1970 | Party Guest | |
| 1963 | Girl at Book Fair | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
