Notables
Among the notables who have lived on the island are César Manrique, an artist; José Saramago, a Portuguese Nobel Prize for Literature winner who died there, and Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark and her husband, Carlos Morales Quintana.
The movies Krull (1983), Enemy Mine (1985), One Million Years B.C. (1966), Stranded: Náufragos (2002), Broken Embraces (2009), Road to Salina (1970) were partially filmed on Lanzarote, as well as the made for television mini-series The Martian Chronicles (1980), and the Doctor Who serial Planet of Fire (1984).
The island was also the filming location for the videos for the Stone Roses singles "Fools Gold" and "I Wanna be Adored".
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