Carmen Yazalde

Britt Nichols was born in Gonçalo Guarda Portugal in 1950 as María do Carmo Ressurreição de Deus Coming from a extremely impoverished home where many of her siblings passed away in childhood she found a way out through the entertainment industry first starting as a folk dancer and then being noticed by modeling agents and filmmakers She made her first notable screen appearance as a human sacrifice to skeletal Templar zombies in Amando de Ossorios atmospheric Tombs of the Blind Dead 1972 which was popular enough to spawn three sequels Afterward she appeared in major roles in seven exploitation films for director Jesus Franco mostly in the horror genre She had the titular role in Daughter of Dracula 1972 played a suspected witch in The Demons 1973 and played another bloodsucker in Dracula Prisoner of Frankenstein 1972 Usually best regarded among the Franco period she took part in was A Virgin Among the Living Dead 1973 where she played a bizarre member of a bizarre family gathering for the reading of a will Britt also acted for Juan Bosch in one film Killer with a Thousand Eyes 1973 After acting for just a few years Britt married famous Argentine soccer player Casimiro Yazalde then with Sporting Clube de Portugal and relocated to Argentina with him in 1977 where she became a celebrity and worked as a runway print and advertisement model under the name Carmen Yazalde She still makes the occasional TV appearance