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Elena Santonja

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.


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Born:
May 29, 1932 In Madrid, Spain
Movie/TV Credits:
7
First Appeared:
In the movie The Executioner 1963-08-31
Latest Project:
Movie Todos los nombres de Sara 2019-12-15
Known For
Poster of Todos los nombres de Sara
Poster of National III
Poster of ¡Jo, papá!
Poster of Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés
Filmography
Movie Todos los nombres de Sara Self - TV Host (archive footage) 2019-12-15
Movie Live Flesh Madre de Elena (uncredited) 1997-10-10
Movie Moors and Christians Self 1987-10-28
Movie National III 1982-12-06
Movie ¡Jo, papá! Elena (uncredited) 1975-11-21
Movie Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés Party Guest 1970-03-23
Movie The Executioner Girl at Book Fair 1963-08-31