Fiorella Faltoyano

• Name — Fiorella Faltoyano • Birth Name — María Blanca Gil Paradela • Born — 19 October 1949 • Birthplace — Málaga, Spain • Occupation — Actress • Father — Ramón Pardo Arias • Mother — María de la Asunción Gil Paradela • Spouse — José Luis Tafur Carande • Children — 1 • Partner — Fernando Méndez-Leite María Blanca Fiorella Renzi Gil (María Blanca Gil Paradela; born 19 October 1949), better known as Fiorella Faltoyano, is a Spanish actress.

Fiorella Faltoyano took dramatic studies, and in 1967 debuted in Nati Mistral's theater company. Almost at the same time she appeared in the Pedro Mario Herrero film Club de solteros. She attained popularity as an actress on the television programs Hora once, Teatro de siempre, Estudio 1, and Novela (TV series), and as presenter of the show ¡Señoras y señores!, in the version created by José María Quero in 1974–75. In 1977, she achieved her greatest film success as a protagonist of Unfinished Business by José Luis Garci, with whom she continued working in Solos en la madrugada (1978) – again with José Sacristán – and in Cradle Song (1994). She shot other films, among them La colmena (1982) and Después del sueño (1992) by Mario Camus, ¡Biba la banda! (Ricardo Palacios, 1987), La sombra del ciprés es alargada (Luis Alcoriza, 1990), and La sal de la vida (Eugenio Martín, 1996). At the same time she strengthened her television career, participating in La máscara negra (1982), Tango (TV series) (1991), La regenta (1995), Hermanos de leche (1994–95), Cuéntame cómo pasó (2003–04), Obsesión (2005 telenovela) (2005), Hospital Central (2006), Alfonso, el príncipe maldito (2010), and Amar en tiempos revueltos (2011). In the theater she starred in The Odd Couple (2001–02), The Children's Hour (2004–07), Agnes of God (2007–09), and Galdosiana (2009–10), plays in which she shared billing and production work with the actress Cristina Higueras through her company, Nueva Comedia.

Of Galician and Castilian origin, the biological daughter of an unmarried couple -- Ramón Pardo Arias (1909–1998), native and later mayor of Ferreira de Pantón, Lugo, and María de la Asunción Gil Paradela (1921–2007), a native of Madrid, Fiorella Faltoyano was born María Blanca Gil Paradela but later took the surname (Renzi) of her Italian stepfather. She spent summers near Ferreira de Pantón with her family. She has two half-brothers, Mauricio and Constantino, children of her mother's marriage with businessman Constantino Faltoyano.

She has one son, Daniel Tafur Renzi, from her marriage to producer José Luis Tafur Carande (1929–2012). She later became the romantic partner of director Fernando Méndez-Leite.