Mabel Rivera
Mabel Rivera ( born June 20, 1952 in Ferrol, A Coruna Province as María Isabel Rivera Torres) is a Spanish actress.
Biography
Mabel Rivera was born in 1952 as María Isabel Rivera Torres in Galicia, in northwestern Spain. She worked for eleven years as a shipyard worker in her hometown before she began studying English literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where she graduated in 1984. Rivera began already in the 1970s to play at the theater, made her professional stage debut in 1984, but at the Centro Galego Dramático (CDG ) in Santiago de Compostela, where she was seen in Eduardo Alonso's staging of Roberto Vidal Bolanos piece Agasallo de sombras. Alonso put it then also in other CDG- productions and was followed Castelãos Os Vellos non deben de namorarse (1985 ) and roles in classic comedies such as The Imaginary Invalid ( 1986) by Molière and The Merry Wives of Windsor ( 1989) by William Shakespeare. 1990 acted the 1.74 m wide actress directed by Fernanda Lapa Phillippe Minyanas piece Inventarios at the Teatro do Malbarate. For this performance she was awarded the Premio a year later Compostela as the best theater actress awarded. The mid-1990s saw Rivera in contemporary pieces such as Sam Sheppard's Fool for Love (1995), that she translated into Galician in common with Cándido Pazo. As an assistant director she worked under Xulio Lake and Lino Braxe José Sanchis Sinisterra O Cerco de Leningrado (Teatro do Atlántico, 1999) or the Lagarta, Lagarta production Fobias ( 2004).
In addition to her work in the Galician theater celebrated Mabel Rivera in 1987 made her film debut with a small part as Señora Gundin in José Luis Cuerdas award-winning fantasy comedy El bosque animado, in which Alfredo Landa played the lead role. In the late 1980s followed Rivera offers for various television productions of TVE and the Galician TVG television stations, including Xosé Cermeños and Antón Dobaos comedy series Os outros feirantes (1989). A wide audience but it was not known until 1995 by starring in the Balbina Santos Cermeños Prato combinados. The popular comedy series aired regularly until 2003 Primetime TVG and always had the misadventures of a Galician family about who runs a bar and dreams of financial independence. The part of the gentle wife Rivera embodied in several seasons and won her three times in a row nominated for a Television Award AGAPI one.
From 1999 to 2001, the trained actress studied acting at the University of Santiago de Compostela and was published in the year of their degree in the short film inútil by Paco Paranal. 2004 Rivera returned seventeen years after her feature film debut with Alejandro Amenábar's The Sea Inside back on the big screen back. In the drama, based on a true story, it is (played by Javier Bardem ) to be seen as brusque and self-sacrificing sister in law of Ramon Sampedro Galiciers paralyzed. This had become well known through his long struggle for the right to active euthanasia in Spain. For the role of Manuela Rivera received as well as the rest of the ensemble cast to Bardem, Lola Dueñas and Belén Rueda high praise from the critics. While Amenábar's film won the 2005 Oscar for best foreign language film, Rivera was awarded in the same year with the main Spanish Film Award, the Goya for Best Supporting Actress. At the award ceremony could Galician actress who was in Spain little known before, against such established professional colleagues like Victoria Abril (El día séptimo ) or Mercedes Sampietro ( Inconscientes ) prevail. This success Rivera received more exposure for movie productions and 2006 she was again alongside Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman and Stellan Skarsgård on the ensemble cast of Miloš Forman's Goya's Ghosts period drama (2006). A year later, in Juan Antonio Bayonas horror film were The Orphanage, 2008 Spain's Oscar candidate for a nomination in the category Best Foreign Language Film, Belén Rueda again and Geraldine Chaplin film their partners.
The actress, who speaks English and French in addition to Spanish, Galician and Catalan, worked alongside her film and stage career, including as a presenter.
Filmography (selection)
Awards (selection)
Goya
- 2005: Best Supporting Actress for The Sea Inside
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Premios ACE
- 2005: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Sea Inside
Premios AGAPI
Premios del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos
- 2005: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Sea Inside
Premios Sant Jordi
- 2005: Best Supporting Actress for The Sea Inside
Premios Unión de Actores
- 2005: nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for The Sea Inside