Belén Rueda
Belén Rueda (born March 16, 1965 in Madrid ; actually María Belén Rueda García-Porrero ) is a Spanish actress. After working as a model and presenter, she made the leap into acting at the end of the 1990s. She became known to a wide audience through leading roles in the Spanish films The Sea in Me (2004) and The Orphanage (2007).
biography
Training and beginning of television career
Belén Rueda was born in Madrid in 1965 as the daughter of a civil engineer and a ballet teacher. She grew up as the middle of three sisters until she was seven years old in the city of her birth before the family moved to Alicante due to her youngest sister's asthma . In her childhood, Rueda emulated her mother and received ballet lessons, but at the age of 13 turned down a ballet scholarship that would have brought her to Paris . After completing 12th grade, she returned to Madrid at the age of 18. There she began studying architecture, which she broke off after marrying an Italian seven years her senior. She lived with her first husband for two years (1985–1987) in his home country.
After separating from her first husband, Rueda returned to Madrid and made a living as a realtor and model. She appeared as an actress in television commercials and later ran a dance school in Alicante. In the early 1990s, Rueda made the leap into Spanish television when she received a small post as a hostess in José Luis Moreno's comedy show VIP noche from Telecinco , which was later expanded to become a moderator. With her friend and co-presenter Emilio Aragón , she then appeared in other television formats such as Noche, noche (1993) and later switched to the TV channel Antena 3 . There she was seen as a presenter in programs such as La ruleta de la fortuna , the Spanish version of the wheel of fortune . For the co-moderation of the music show Ta tocao , she received a nomination in 1994 for the TP de Oro , which is one of the most important television awards in Spain.
At the end of the 1990s, Rueda switched to acting with the help of the television producer Daniel Écija, with whom she also found her private happiness in the meantime. She made her debut on Spanish television in 1997 with a recurring role in the award-winning telecinco series Médico de familia at the side of her old companion Emilio Aragón. The role of the idealistic Clara Nadal was so successfully accepted by the audience that the spin-off program Periodistas followed a year later , in which she continued the role of the single mother and photographer in over a hundred episodes from 1998 to 2002. Although she is promoted to editor of the local section of a newspaper, she has little luck in love.
From 2003 Rueda took on the leading role of Lucía in the television series Los Serrano , a patient Spanish professor and mother of two daughters, who married into a Madrid host family. The series was very popular with critics and audiences and achieved a market share of up to 38 percent. Rueda's performance was rewarded with nominations for the Fotogramas de Plata and the Premios Unión de Actores , the award of the Spanish actors' association. In 2008, she left the series prematurely to devote herself to other projects, but retrospectively commented positively on her television career. "If you've played the same characters for many years, you have to let a little time pass so as not to lose credibility, but not because I think television is inferior for an actress," said Rueda in an interview with the daily newspaper in 2006 El País . “TV gave me everything. It gave me the chance to learn the trade, enabled me to interpret and develop characters of various facets. "
Film career
Parallel to her television career, the 1.73-meter-tall actress made her cinema debut in 2004 with Alejandro Amenábar's The Sea in Me . In the drama, based on a true story, she is seen as the seriously ill lawyer of the paralyzed Galician Ramón Sampedro (played by Javier Bardem ). This had gained notoriety in Spain through his years of struggle for the right to active euthanasia. To her own surprise, she got the role of Julia, which boosted her confidence. Like the rest of the acting ensemble around Bardem, Lola Dueñas and Mabel Rivera , Rueda received great praise from the critics. While Amenábar's film won the Oscar for best foreign language film in 2005, the sensitive actress was awarded the most important Spanish film award, the Goya , for best young actress , the award of the Spanish Drama Guild and the Spanish Film Critics Association in the same year .
After Francesc Talavera's short film Retruc (2005) and a small role in the international independent film Wilde Innschuld (2007), which was filmed in Barcelona , Rueda managed to build on the previous success with the lead role in Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage (2007). In the Spanish mystery thriller, produced by Guillermo del Toro , she slipped into the role of the married Laura, who moved with her husband and the 7-year-old adopted son Simon to an abandoned orphanage on the Spanish Atlantic coast where she grew up. The happiness of the family, which is to be crowned with the reopening of the orphanage, collapses when Simon disappears without a trace on the opening day after he had previously reported about invisible friends. The orphanage enjoyed international success with critics and audiences alike, was awarded seven Goyas and was Spain's 2008 candidate for an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Foreign Language Film . For her performance as a desperate mother who goes in search of her missing son, Rueda has again received nominations for the most important Spanish film prizes, the American Saturn Award and the European Film Prize 2008 . Also in 2008 she was awarded the Spanish Montblanc Prize for Women for her work as a film, television and theater actress.
2010 followed the female lead in the psychological thriller El mal ajeno by Óskar Santos Gómez . In the film produced by Alejandro Amenábar, she was seen alongside Eduardo Noriega . In the same year followed the lead role in Guillem Morales ' horror film Julia's Eyes (2010) alongside Lluís Homar , in which she plays a slowly blind woman who tries to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, who is also blind. The double role in the film produced by Guillermo del Toro brought her new nominations for the Spanish film prizes Goya, Fotogramas de Plata and Premio del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos.
Until the official separation in 2004, Rueda was married to Daniel Écija, with whom she had been in a relationship for 15 years. The relationship with the television producer, who was the founder and main shareholder of the Globomedia company, was involved in Rueda's series Médico de familia , Periodistas and Los Serrano , giving rise to three daughters (born in 1994, 1996 and 1998). The middle child died of a heart failure in 1996 in infancy. Rueda lives in Madrid with her two daughters and protects her private life from the press.
In January 2007 the actress appeared in the Madrid production of Patrick Marber's drama Hautnah at the Teatro Lara, in the role of Anna, which was interpreted in the 2004 Hollywood film adaptation of Julia Roberts . The daily El Mundo then praised her for her theatrical debut, directed by Mariano Barrosos , for which she would exude curiosity and charisma.
Filmography
Feature films
- 2001: Retruc (short film)
- 2004: The sea in me (Mar adentro)
- 2007: Wild Innocence (Savage Grace)
- 2007: The orphanage (El orfanato)
- 2008: 8 citas
- 2009: Spanish Movie
- 2010: El mal ajeno
- 2010: Julia's Eyes (Los ojos de Julia)
- 2011: No tengas miedo
- 2012: The Body (El cuerpo)
- 2013: 7th Floor - Every Second Counts (Séptimo)
- 2013: Ishmael
- 2014: Strings (short film, voice)
- 2015: Broken Basket (short film)
- 2015: Una vez (short film)
- 2016: The Night My Mother Killed My Father (La noche que mi madre mató a mi padre)
- 2017: Orbiter 9 - The last experiment (Órbita 9)
- 2018: Sara's diary (El cuaderno de Sara)
- 2018: You Shall Not Sleep (No dormirás)
- 2018: Parallel Worlds (Durante la tormenta)
- 2018: The Pact (El pacto)
- 2019: The Silence of the White City (El silencio de la ciudad blanca)
Television (selection)
- 1997: Médico de familia (series)
- 1998–2002: Periodistas (series)
- 2003-2008: Los Serrano (series)
- 2010: La princesa de Éboli (multi-part)
- 2011: El barco (series)
- 2012–2013: Luna, el misterio de Calenda (series)
- 2014–2015: Pablo Balboa y Candela Bermejo hacen una escapada a París (series)
- 2016: La embajada (series)
- 2020: Madres. Amor y vida (series)
Awards
Goya
- 2005 : Best young actress for The Sea in Me
- 2008: Nominated for Best Actress for The Orphanage
- 2011: nominated as Best Actress for Julia's Eyes
European film award
- 2008 : Nominated for Best Actress for The Orphanage
Further
- 2008: Best Actress for The Orphanage
- 2004: Nominated for Best TV Actress for Los Serrano
- 2005: Best Actress for The Sea in Me
- 2008: Best Actress for The Orphanage
- 2011: nominated as best actress for Julia's Eyes
- 2007: Best Actress for The Orphanage
Premios del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos
- 2005: Best young actress for The Sea in Me
- 2008: Nominated for Best Actress for The Orphanage
- 2011: nominated as Best Actress for Julia's Eyes
- 2012: Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for No tengas miedo
- 2005: Best young actress for The Sea in Me
- 2006: Nominated for Best Actress in a TV Series for Los Serrano
- 2008: Nominated for Best Actress for The Orphanage
- 2008: Nominated for Best Actress for The Orphanage
- 1994: Nominated for Best Presenter for Ta tocao
- 2004: Nominated for Best Actress for Los Serrano
Web links
- Biography at superiorpics.com (English)
- Profile at elpais.com (Spanish)
- Belén Rueda in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b cf. EFE : Belén Rueda, Goya mejor actriz revelación por “Mar adentro” , January 30, 2005
- ↑ a b cf. Biography at hoychinema.com (Spanish; accessed December 6, 2008)
- ↑ a b cf. Pita, Elena: Cuando el divorcio es cierto . In: El Mundo , June 6, 2004, p. 19
- ↑ a b c cf. Intxausti, Aurora: "Espero que las luces me impidan ver al público" . In: El País, December 17, 2006, p. 50
- ↑ cf. Cendros, Teresa: El dolor vuelve a capturar a Belen Rueda . In: El País , June 16, 2006, p. 62
- ↑ cf. Garíca, Rocío: "It sano que la Academia apueste por una voz nueva" . In: El País, September 28, 2007, p. 59
- ↑ cf. Belén Rueda, premiada por "su profesionalidad y su calidad como persona" . In: ABC , November 21, 2008
- ↑ cf. Prieto, Dario: Belén Rueda, protagonista del filme, afirma que su mensaje es que "todos los miedos son universales" . In: El Mundo , September 28, 2007, p. 60
- ↑ cf. El espacio itinerante de Belén Rued at elpais.com, November 29, 2008 (Spanish; accessed December 6, 2008)
- ↑ cf. Villan, Javier: Closer: El zoo sombrío . In: El Mundo, February 20, 2007, p. 56
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rueda, Belén |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rueda García-Porrero, María Belén (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |