Romay was born in Barcelona in 1954. Following graduation from high school, she studied the arts, married actor/photographer Ramon Ardid/ Raymond Hardy (they later divorced in 1978), and began acting in stage productions. She began appearing in Jesús Franco's films from the time that they met in 1972. She appeared in more than a hundred feature films, most of them directed by Franco. Among the better known of her horror films are The Bare Breasted Countess (a.k.a. Female Vampire) (1973), Barbed Wire Dolls (1975) and Jack the Ripper (1976). She took the name Lina Romay from the actress and jazz artist from the 1940s. Although Romay was listed in the credits of several of Franco's films as a co-director, actor Antonio Mayans stated in a recent interview that Franco used to credit her in that manner for business reasons, although she never actually co-directed any of their films together. She did however contribute occasional story ideas and assist in the editing of some films and trailers. Lina Romay and Jesús Franco lived as a couple for close to four decades, but only officially married on April 25, 2008. She died from cancer at the age of 57 on 15 February 2012, in Málaga, Spain. Franco died soon after in 2013.

Filmography

• 2014Falks Frauen — (archive footage)
• 2012La cripta de las condenadas — Production Manager, Assistant Director, Art Direction
• 2012La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II — Production Manager, Art Direction, Makeup Artist, Assistant Director
• 2010Paula-Paula — Alma Pereira, Makeup Artist, Wardrobe Supervisor
• 2009Take-Away Spirit — Set Decoration, Production Manager, Second Unit
• 2007Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre — Mrs. Steele
• 2007Triple X Selects: The Best of Lezsploitation — (archive footage)
• 2005Jess Franco's Passion
• 2005Jess Franco's Perversion — Mme Villeblanche
• 2005Snakewoman — Dr. Van Helsing, Writer
• 2004See you later Cowabunga: La maldición del cenachero diabólico!
• 2003Death Karate in Torremolinos
• 2003Red Venice
• 2002Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie — Herself, Camera Operator
• 2002Incubus — Rosa Harker
• 2002Killer Barbys vs. Dracula — Irina von Karstein, Screenplay
• 2001Vampire Junction — Mados, Director
• 2000Blind Target — Tora, Director, Assistant Director
• 2000Helter Skelter
• 1999Broken Dolls — Tona, Assistant Director
• 1999Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell — Nelly Smith / Tsai Ming
• 1999Red Silk — Gina
• 1999Vampire Blues — Marga
• 1998Lust for Frankenstein — Moira Frankenstein, Editor
• 1998Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula — Mari Cookie / Tarantula
• 1997Tender Flesh — Mrs. Radeck
• 1996Vampire Killer Barbys — Editor
• 1994Downtown Heat — Angela
• 1993Jungle of Fear
• 1992Don Quixote — Editor
• 1992El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa
• 1989Esmeralda Bay — Hotelier, Editor
• 1988Faceless — Mme Orloff
• 1987Falo Crest — Melissa, Editor, Director
• 1987Phollastía — Barbara, Director
• 1987Slave of Crime — Tsai Chin
• 1987Thong Girls — Lola Clavijo, Director
• 1987Trapped Women — Marga
• 1986Alone Against Terror — Melissa
• 1986Entre pitos anda el juego — Candy, Director
• 1986Fury in the Tropics — Marga Lopez
• 1986Girl with the Red Lips — Terry Morgan
• 1986Golden Temple Amazons — Cameo
• 1986Las chuponas — Lulu Laverne
• 1986Lulu's Talking Ass — Lulú
• 1986Para las nenas, leche calentita — Chelo Cucufate, Director
• 1986Sida, la peste del siglo XX — Editor
• 1986The Last from Philippines — Cecilia Muro
• 1986The Voyeur and the Exhibitionist — The Exhibitionist, Director, Writer
• 1985Bangkok, City of the Dead — Aminia
• 1985Dirty Game in Casablanca — Woman Asking for Autograph, Assistant Director
• 1985Judoka Shadow versus Doctor Wong — Maggie
• 1985Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included — Editor, Assistant Director
• 1985Un pito para tres — Director
• 1985White Jungle Slave — Karate Student, Assistant Director
• 1984A Crack for Two — Agent 69, Director, Screenplay
• 1984Bahia Blanca — María, Assistant Editor, Assistant Director
• 1984How Much Does a Spy Make? — Ana
• 1984Lilian, the Perverted Virgin — Irina
• 1984Lonely Road — Eva / Adriana, Assistant Director
• 1984Night Has a Thousand Desires — Irina
• 1984The Sexual Story of O — Editor
• 1983Black Boots, Leather Whip — Lina
• 1983Blood on My Shoes — Paquita la Fina
• 1983Cecilia — Cabaret Owner/Performer
• 1983Cries of Pleasure — Julia, Director, Editor
• 1983Diamonds of Kilimandjaro — Hermine
• 1983Intimate Confessions of an Exhibitionist — Candy, Director, Assistant Editor
• 1983Macumba Sexual — Alice Brooks, Assistant Director
• 1983Revenge in the House of Usher — Helen
• 1983The Blues of Pop Street — Genara Johnny Walker 'Butterfly'
• 1983The Hotel of Love Affairs — Eva Bombón, Assistant Editor, Assistant Director
• 1983The House of Lost Women — Desdémona
• 1983The Night Of Open Sex — Moira
• 1982El huésped de la niebla — Director, Screenplay
• 1982Express Train — Director, Editor
• 1982Mansion of the Living Dead — Candy
• 1982My Pussy is the Best — Elisa
• 1982Sex Apocalypse — Ruth
• 1982The Inconfessable Orgies of Emmanuelle — Editor, Assistant Director
• 1981Bloody Moon — Assistant Director
• 1981El fontanero, su mujer... y otras cosas de meter — Julia
• 1981Jailhouse Wardress — Maria
• 1981Pick-Up Girls — Suzy
• 1981Sadomania — Assistant Director, Assistant Editor
• 1981Sex Is Crazy — Mrs. Foncesca
• 1981Sexual Perversions of a Married Woman — George's Mother
• 1981The Girls of the Copacabana — Lia
• 1981The Story of Linda — Assistant Director
• 1980Devil Hunter — Assistant Director
• 1980Erotic Symphony — Martine de Bressac
• 1980Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties — Cecile
• 1980What a Honeymoon — Yolanda
• 1980White Cannibal Queen — Ana
• 1980Wicked Memoirs of Eugenie — Sultana
• 1979Justine and the Whip — Justine
• 1979The Sadist of Notre Dame — Anne
• 1979They Do Everything — Nini
• 1978Cocktail spécial — Martine
• 1978Love Letters of a Nun — María
• 1978Women Without Innocence — Margarita Martin
• 1977Doriana Grey — Doriana Gray/Doriana's Twin Sister
• 1977Greta, the Mad Butcher — Juana
• 1977Kiss Me Killer — Moira Ray
• 1977Slaves — Madame Arminda
• 1976Barbed Wire Dolls — Maria da Guerra
• 1976Downtown — Cynthia
• 1976Jack the Ripper — Marika Stevenson
• 1976Midnight Party — Sylvia
• 1976Shining Sex — Cynthia
• 1976The Erotic Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
• 1976The Troublemakers — Pina
• 1975Countess Perverse — Silvia Aguado
• 1975Exorcism — Anne
• 1975Female Vampire — Countess Irina Karlstein
• 1975Rolls-Royce Baby — Rolls-Royce Baby
• 1975Sexorcismes
• 1975Sexy Erotic Job — Loulou Laverne
• 1975The Hot Nights of Linda — Olivia Steiner
• 1975The Ticklish Ones — Loulou
• 1975Women Behind Bars — Shirley Fields
• 1974Celestine — Célestine
• 1974How to Seduce a Virgin — Adèle
• 1974Lorna, the Exorcist — Linda Mariel
• 1974Night of the Skull — Rita Derian
• 1974The Greedy Ones — Alba / Bianca
• 1974The Lustful Amazons — Yuka
• 1973Lovers of Devil's Island
• 1973Tender and Perverse Emmanuelle — Greta Douglas
• 1973The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein — Esmeralda
• 1973The Other Side of the Mirror — Marie Madeleine Whitman (French version only)
• 1973The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff — Sweet Davey Brown's Girlfriend
• El misterio del castillo rojo
• Fly Story

Appearances as themselves (9)

• 2014Call Me Jess Redux — Herself
• 2014Miss Lina und ihr Chauffeur — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Queridos monstruos — Self
• 2013La última película de Jess Franco — Self
• 2010Macumba sexual: Voodoo Jess — Self
• 2003On the Threshold to Another World — Herself
• 2001Journey into Perversion — Herself
• 2000Call Him Jess — Herself
• 1983The Bizarre World of Jess Franco — Herself