Maria Socas

María Antonia Socas Ortiz Lanús was an Argentine actress who worked in film, television and theatre. She worked mostly in telenovelas and theatre at home, but foreign audiences knew her from sword and sorcery films. Maria Socas appeared nude in The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984), and she later had a role in Muerte Dudosa (1994). She was born on August 12, 1959, and died on December 10, 2024, at age 65. Her signature role was one of the title characters in The Warrior and the Sorceress, directed by John C. Broderick. She made several of those mid-1980s fantasy films with producers Roger Corman and Héctor Olivera.