Belén Rueda

Belén Rueda ( born March 16, 1965 in Madrid, María Belén Rueda García- actually Porrero ) is a Spanish actress. After working as a model and presenter her end of the 1990s managed the jump to acting. A wide audience, she was known for starring roles in the Spanish feature film The Sea Inside (2004) and The Orphanage (2007).

• 2.1 Movies
• 2.2 Television ( selection)

• 3.1 Goya
• 3.2 European Film Awards
• 3.3 Further

Biography

Training and the start of the television career

Belén Rueda was born in 1965 as the daughter of a civil engineer and a ballet teacher in Madrid. She grew up as the middle of three sisters up to the age of seven in her native city on before the family because of the asthma disease her youngest sister moved to Alicante. In her childhood Rueda emulated her mother to and received ballet lessons, but declined at the age of 13 years, a ballet scholarship that would have led them to Paris, from. After the 12th grade graduation, she returned at the age of 18 years back to Madrid. There she began to study architecture, but which they broke off after marriage with a seven- year-older Italians. With her ​​first husband she lived for two years in his home country.

After separating from her first husband Rueda returned to Madrid and earned a broker and model their livelihood. She appeared as an actress in television commercials, and later led a dance school in Alicante. In the early 1990s succeeded Rueda jump into Spanish television when she got a small job as a hostess in José Luis Moreno's comedy show VIP noche Telecinco, which was expanded to Moderators part later. With her fellow co-host Emilio Aragón she appeared then in other television formats such as Noche, noche (1993) and later moved to the television station Antena 3, where she was a presenter in programs such as La ruleta de la fortuna, the Spanish version of Wheel of Fortune to. seen For the co-moderation of the music show Ta tocao she received a nomination for the 1994 TP de Oro, which is one of the major television awards in Spain.

In the late 1990s changed Rueda using the television producers Daniel Ecija to acting, with whom she temporarily took private happiness too. Her debut in the Spanish TV, she gave in 1997 with a recurring role in the award -winning series Médico de familia Telecinco on the side of their old companions Emilio Aragón. The part of the idealistic Clara Nadal has been successfully received by the public, that a year later, the spin-off show Periodistas followed, in which they appear in more than one hundred episodes continued the role of single mother and photographer from 1998 to 2002. This is indeed promoted to editor of the local section of a newspaper, but it is only a little luck in love granted.

As of 2003, took over the lead role of Lucia Rueda in the television series Los Serrano, a patient Spanish professor and mother of two daughters who einheiratet in a Madrid family of innkeepers. The series was considered by critics and audiences as a very popular and achieved a market share of up to 38 percent. Ruedas dramatic performance was rewarded with, among other nominations for the Fotogramas de Plata and the Premios Unión de Actores, the price of the Spanish actresses Association. In 2008, she left early the series to pursue other projects, but expressed retroactively positive about her television career. " If you embody the same characters many years, you have to let a little time pass so as not to lose credibility, but not because I think that television is inferior for an actress is " so Rueda, 2006 in an interview with the daily newspaper El País. "I gave everything television. It gave me the chance to learn the craft, enabled me to interpret characters of different facets and develop. "

Film career

In addition to her television career in 2004 made ​​her film debut with Alejandro Amenábar celebrated the 1.73 meter tall actress The Sea Inside. In the drama, based on a true story, it is a seriously ill lawyer of the paralyzed Galiciers Ramón Sampedro (played by Javier Bardem ) to see. This had become well known through his long struggle for the right to active euthanasia in Spain. To her surprise, she won the role of Juliet, which strengthened their self-confidence. Like the rest of the ensemble cast to Bardem, Lola Dueñas and Mabel Rivera Rueda received high praise from the critics. While Amenábar's film won the 2005 Oscar for best foreign language film, the sensitive actress in the same year with the main Spanish Film Award, the Goya for Best Young Actress, the price of the Spanish drama guild and the Spanish Film Critics Association Award.

After Francesc Talavera Short Retruc (2005) and a small role in the wacky in Barcelona International Independent Film Savage Grace (2007) succeeded Rueda with the lead role in Juan Antonio Bayonas The Orphanage (2007 ) on the previous successful with the new. In the Spanish mystery-thriller produced by Guillermo del Toro, she slipped into the role of married Laura, who moves in with her ​​husband and 7- year-old adopted son Simon in an abandoned orphanage on the Spanish Atlantic coast, where she grew up. The family fortune that is to be crowned with the opening of the orphanage, is shattered when Simon disappears without a trace on the opening day, after he had earlier reported by invisible friends. The orphanage was granted international success with critics and audiences, won awards including seven Goyas and in 2008 was Spain's candidate for an Oscar nomination in the category Best Foreign Language Film. Rueda received for her performance as a desperate mother who embarks on a search for her missing son, re- nominations for the main Spanish film awards, the American Saturn Award and European Film Award 2008. Also in 2008, she was awarded for her work as a film -, television and stage actress the Spanish Montblanc Price for Women awarded.

2010 followed the female lead times ajeno of Óskar Santos Gómez in the psychological thriller El. In the Alejandro Amenábar film produced by them was to be seen on the side of Eduardo Noriega. In the same year the main role followed in Guillem Morales ' Julia 's Eyes Horror (2010) Lluís Homar next, in which she plays a slow erblindende woman trying to elucidate the mysterious suicide of her twin sister also blind. The double role in the film produced by Guillermo del Toro brought their re- nominations for the Spanish film awards Goya, Fotogramas de Plata and Premio del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos.

Until the official separation in 2004 Rueda was married in second marriage with Daniel Ecija, with whom she had been dating 15 years. From the relationship with the television producer who has been involved as a founder and main shareholder of the company Globo Media at Ruedas series Médico de familia, Periodistas and Los Serrano, went three daughters ( born in 1994, 1996 and 1998) indicates. The middle child died in infancy in 1996 from heart failure. With her ​​two daughters Rueda lives in Madrid and protects her private life to the press. From 1985 to 1987, the actress had been married to an Italian.

In January 2007, the actress appeared in the Madrid Patrick Marber's drama performance of Closer at the Teatro Lara, in the role of Anna, who had been interpreted in the same Hollywood film by Julia Roberts in 2004. The daily El Mundo she praised then for her theater debut under the direction Mariano Barroso, in which it would radiate curiosity and charisma.

Filmography

Movies

• 2004: The Sea Inside ( Mar adentro )
• 2007: Savage Grace ( Savage Grace)
• 2007: The Orphanage (El orfanato )
• 2008: 8 citas
• 2009: Spanish Movie
• 2010: El ajeno times
• 2010: Julia 's Eyes (Los ojos de Julia )
• 2011: No tengas miedo

Television ( selection)

Awards

Goya

• 2005: Best Young Actress for The Sea Inside
• 2008: nominated for Best Actress for The Orphanage
• 2011: nominated for Best Actress for Julia 's Eyes

European Film Awards

• 2008: nominated for Best Actress for The Orphanage

More

Fanta Porto

• 2008: Best Actress for The Orphanage

Fotogramas de Plata

• 2004: nominated for Best Television Actress for Los Serrano
• 2005: Best Actress for movie The Sea Inside
• 2008: Best Actress for movie The Orphanage
• 2011: nominated for Best Cinema Actress for Julia 's Eyes

Premios de Barcelona Cinema

• 2007: Best Actress for The Orphanage

Premios del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos

• 2005: Best Young Actress for The Sea Inside
• 2008: nominated for Best Actress for The Orphanage
• 2011: nominated for Best Actress for Julia 's Eyes
• 2012: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for No tengas miedo

Premios Unión de Actores

• 2005: Best Young Actress for The Sea Inside
• 2006: nominated for Best Actress in a TV series Los Serrano
• 2008: nominated for Best Actress for The Orphanage

Saturn Award

• 2008: nominated for Best Actress for The Orphanage

TP de Oro