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Nadiuska
Born	Roswicha Bertasha Smid Honczar
Occupation(s)	Actress, Model
Years active	1972–1997
Spouse	Fernando Montalbán Sánchez (m.1973-1980)

Nadiuska (born Roswicha Bertasha Smid Honczar; January 19, 1952) was a German born model turned actress who was famous in Spain for her numerous roles in softcore movies and subseqeunt career afterwards. Though she is most well-known outside of Spain for playing the role of Conan's mother in Conan the Barbarian.

Early life and career

Nadiuska was born in Scierling, Germany to a polish mother and a russian father.

In 1971 she moved to Barcelona where she became a model. A year later she became an actress and played in her first movie "Timanfaya" where she also took up the name "Nadiuska" because it was shorter and easier to say than her birth name. After this, she played in numerous movies of moderate success and became very famous and a queen of softcore in Spain and Italy in the 1970's and early 80's.

Despite her success in softcore movies, she grew to reject it and tried to become a normal actress. She played in a variety of TV series and other movies playing in such roles in action movies, adventure movies and crime and horror movies. During this time, she played her most well known role in Conan the Barbarian.

In 1986, she took a break from film and didn't return until 1993, where she only played in a few more roles before finally retiring in 1997. Her last movie "Brácula. Condemor II" was dedicated to her by the director.

Retirement and present

Unfortunately, after she retired she fell into debt and began to suffer from psychological disorders. In 1999 she was transferred from where she lived to a psychiatric hospital, where she was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Once there, her treatment improveed and in 2002 was discharged.

Unable to recover from her financial problems and homless, she began to wander through different areas of Madrid. She appered in the television program presented by Concha Velasco "Tiempo al Tiempo"(spanish for "Time to Time") where she told her story, but it was not able to help her as needed. Today, she is a patient in the Ciempozuelos Benedict Menni psychiatric institute run by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart.

Filmography

• Soltero y padre en la vida (1972) .... Gunilla
• Timanfaya (1972)
• Smut Starts at the Pyrenees (1973) .... Paula
• Manolo by Night (1973) .... Ingrid
• Tarzán en las minas del rey Salomón (1973) .... Doris
• Perversión (1974) .... Marisa
• El chulo (1974) .... Isabel
• Vida conyugal sana (1974) .... Nati
• Señora doctor (1974) .... Lucía
• Chicas de alquiler (1974)
• Polvo eres... (1974) .... Rocio Corrales 'La Nodo'
• Zorrita Martínez (1975) .... Zorrita
• Una abuelita de antes de la guerra (1975) .... Nina
• Un lujo a su alcance (1975) .... Pili
• Revista de cine (1 episode, 1976) .... Herself
• Rape (1976)
• La muerte ronda a Mónica (1976) .... Mónica
• Spanish Fly (1976) .... Julie
• El señor está servido (1976)
• La amante perfecta (1976)
• The People Who Own the Dark (1976) .... Clara
• Beatriz (1976) .... Basilisa
• Dos hombres y, en medio, dos mujeres (1977)
• Chely (1977) .... Pepi
• Eva a las diez (1 episode, 1977)
• The More It Goes, the Less It Goes (1977).... Zuka
• Estimado Sr. juez... (1978) .... Herself (uncredited)
• Suave, cariño, muy suave (1978)
• Mi mujer no es mi señora (1978)
• Guyana: Cult of the Damned (1979) .... Leslie Stevens
• Sette ragazze di classe (1979)
• Buitres sobre la ciudad (1980)
• Challenge of the Tiger (1980) .... Maria
• La noche viene movida (1980)
• Las siete cucas (1981) .... Julita
• Black Commando (1982) .... Emily
• Conan the Barbarian (1982) .... Conan's Mother
• El violador violado (1983) .... Alicia
• La loca historia de los tres mosqueteros (1983) .... Milady de Winter
• Àngel Casas show (1 episode, 1984) .... Herself
• La de Troya en el Palmar (1984)
• Tristeza de amor (3 episodes, "Pub Chopin", "La rusa", "El viejo Werther", 1986)
• El tío del saco y el inspector Lobatón (1993)
• Los ladrones van a la oficina (1 episode, Marca registrada, 1995)
• Qué memoria la mía (1 episode, 1996) .... Herself
• Brácula. Condemor II (1997) .... Baronesa
• Crónicas marcianas (1 episode, 1998) .... Herself
• Tiempo al tiempo (1 episode, 2001) … Herself

External links

Nadiuska at The Internet Movie Database