Actress. The Spanish voice of numerous major stars, she was later seen in front of the camera on several occasions. Born Banet Angela Maria Romero, she broke into show business as an announcer on Radio Madrid, made her silver screen bow with the 1955 Italian comedy “Demoiselles from 09”, and during the 1960s began providing the Castilian voice for a good number of the then-popular ‘spaghetti westerns’, dubbing Mikaela in 1962’s “Gunfight at Red Sands”, Maria Krup in the 1965 Clint Eastwood classic “For a Few Dollars More”, Gina Lollabrigida in 1972’s “Bad Man’s River”, and others. In the late 1970s she had her best-known gig as the Spanish incarnation of Mrs. Roper on the television series “The Ropers”; over the years she earned praise in 1983’s El pequeno vagabundo”, “The Legend of the North Wind” (1992), and 2001’s “The Living Forest”, while developing a following with her public poetry readings and teaching elocution at her own school in Madrid. Maria earned her final credit in 2013’s “Minundis a granel” and died of a stroke. Many of her performances are preserved on DVD. (bio by: Bob Hufford)