Susana Canales

Susana Canales was born on Sep 05, 1933 in Spain. Susana Canales's big-screen debut came with Dieciséis años directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen in 1943. Susana Canales is known for Il conte Max directed by Giorgio Bianchi, Alberto Sordi stars as Alberto Boccetti and Vittorio De Sica as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo. The most recent award Susana Canales achieved is Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain. The upcoming new movie Susana Canales plays is El orden cómico which will be released on Apr 07, 1986.

Spanish leading lady of 1940s and 50s comedies, musicals and period dramas, the daughter of actor Ricardo Canales. Her family went into exile in Venezuela at the onset of the Spanish Civil War and eventually settled in Buenos Aires. It was there that Susana made her film debut as a nine year old. She returned to her native country in 1950, debuted on stage in 1951 and two years later married the prolific Spanish actor Julio Peña with whom she was sometimes romantically paired on screen. Her best known film roles included Cielo negro (1951) (opposite Fernando Rey), the swashbuckling epic Les Aventures de Gil Blas de Santillane (1956) and La ragazza di Piazza San Pietro (1958) (opposite Vittorio De Sica). She also played Marie Antoinette (billed as 'Susan Canales') in Samuel Bronston's international production of the founder of the U.S. Navy, John Paul Jones, maître des mers (1959) (Bette Davis also made a brief appearance as Catherine the Great). Susana confined the latter part of her career (from 1967 to her retirement in 1995) to the theatre and to work in TV and radio.