Azucena Hernández Iglesias[1] (21 March 1960[2] – 4 December 2019)[3] was a Spanish actress known for her work in cinema, stage and television.
[1] She lived for some years in the municipality of Blanes, and later moved to Madrid starting her career as an actress in 1978 in an operetta and in the movie Las eróticas vacaciones de Stela,[4] as well as some erotic productions of a subgenre known in Spain as S-Films which was very popular in the late 1970s.
In 1980 she starred in the horror film El Retorno del Hombre Lobo, directed by Paul Naschy.
This film was exported to several countries under the titles The Craving and The Night of the Werewolf which gave Azucena some fame abroad, popularity later revived through Internet forums.
Her media career was prematurely ended by a serious car accident in Las Rozas de Madrid, on the night of 15 to 16 October 1986, in which she received severe spinal cord injuries.