Inmaculada Santiago del Pino, later known as Inma de Santis (other pseudonyms: Inma de Santy, Inma de Santi) was born the 24th February 1959 in Madrid.  She played in a film for the first time when she was only six years old: A Spanish-Mexican co production directed by the Mexican filmmaker Ismael Rodríguez, "El niño y el muro" (the child and the wall), a story about a young boy Dieter whose ball has gone to the other side of the wall which has been recently built in Berlin between the “free” area of West Berlin and the communist Berlin in the Democratic Republic of Germany. Among the adults there were too the French actor Daniel Gélin and actors who were very often playing in this time in Spanish films, Georges Rigaud and Gerard Tichy. The for the young Inma some minor roles  followed in very different films as “La mujer perdida ” (1966) directed by Tulio Demicheli with Sara Montiel; a science fiction film for children (Javier y los invasores del espacio -1967); a Spanish-Italian-German co production about a Congo in war, "Die große treibjagd / The mercenary” (1968) by Dieter Muller, with Ray Danton and Pascale Petit; a musical film by Eugenio Martín with Julio Iglesias ("La vida sigue igual") in 1969. The same year she got a more interesting role in “El otro árbol of Guernica”, a very good film of Pedro Lazaga with Juan Carlos Almagro and Marcelo Arroita-Jáuregui, which was the story of Spanish children living in Belgium at the time of the civil Spanish war, belonging to different families, ones republican, and others for General Franco troops. And if at the beginning of the film the children show the antagonism of their parents, they will become friendly and interdependent with the other Spanish children and they‘ll face together the hostility from Belgian children and adults. During the sixties Inmaculada also discovered the theatre world.  

The following decade Inma de Santis had too a rich theatre and TV career. We can mention for example "El bosque del lobo" ( 1971) by Pedro Olea, in which she was a little victim of José Luis López-Vázquez, as a serial killer. In the middle of the years 1960, teenager made adult almost without transition, Inma appeared in a lot of very characteristic films of this period, horror or very undressed films as “El asesino of muñecas” by Miguel Madrid with David Richa and Helga Liné; “Juego de amor prohibido” by Eloy of Iglesia with Javier Escrivá and John Moulder Brown; “Madres solteras” by Antonio del Amo with Manolo Zarzo, “El juego del diablo” (1978) by Jorge Darnell with Luis Prendes, "Las flores del vicio/Bloodbath" (1979) by Silvio Narizzano with Dennis Hopper.  She played also in typical Spanish films of the seventies as "Nunca en horas de clase" by Jose Antonio of Loma with José Luis López-Vázquez  or “Vaya by gemelos” by Pedro Lazaga with María Isbert and of course Paco Martínez Soria in a double-role, but also in dramas with actors of international reputation as Fernando Rey (“the duda” 1972), Liv Ulmann, Michel Piccoli, Ornella Muti (“Leonor” 1975, by Juan Luis Buñuel). And when the actress was 20 years old she yet had a filmography of about 20 films.

Inma was too host for TV programme. After having studied film direction she made too short films as "Eulelía" (1988). But unfortunately during holidays in Sahara, the cross-country vehicle she was driving overturned and she died from the consequences of the accident the 21st December 1989 near Dahkla (before Villa Cisneros during the time of Spanish sovereignty). And of course we can think about the film »Entre dos amores"(1972) directed by Luis Lucía, when, daughter of Manolo Escobar, she died because of an accident.
 
Inma de Santis was only 30 years old. Precocious actress, gifted artist, she is always greatly missed by a lot of Spaniards, exactly two decades later.