Belén Rueda

Belén Rueda

1965-03-16 Madrid, Spain 38 Credits

Biography

​Rueda was born in Madrid. Her father was a civil engineer and her mother was a ballet instructor. She is the second of three children; her siblings are named Chus and Violeta (Ms. Rodal). She and her family moved to San Juan, Alicante when she was a child because of her younger sister's asthmatic problems. She was married to Daniel Écija and had three children with him, Beliá (b.1994), María (b.1996) and Lucía (b.1998); unfortunately, their second child died of a heart disease as a baby. She is...

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Every Day a Smart Guy Is Born

2026

Acting

Toni Lomas, a successful talent show performer, is broke and reunites with his past love, Malena, to steal a valuable painting. He forms a team with M...

Los Muértimer

Los Muértimer

2025

Acting

It tells the story of five friends who discover a jewel theft plot in a cemetery without any adult believing them.

Un funeral de locos

Un funeral de locos

2025

as Edurne

5.2
Acting

The members of a family come to say goodbye to the recently deceased patriarch. But what should have been a heartfelt wake turns into a crazy gatherin...

Asesinatos sólo en El Hormiguero

Asesinatos sólo en El Hormiguero

2024

Acting
Free Falling

Free Falling

2024

as Marisol

6.8
Acting

Marisol is the national rhythmic gymnastics coach, methodical, demanding and authoritative. The World Championship is approaching and she places all h...

The Chapel

The Chapel

2023

as Carol

5.3
Acting

Emma wants to learn how to communicate with the spirit of a girl who has been trapped in a hermitage for centuries, and to that end, she tries to pers...

Phenomena

Phenomena

2023

as Sagrario

6.0
Acting

Madrid, Spain, 1998. The many resources and skills of Gloria, Paz and Sagrario, three middle-aged women investigating paranormal events, are put to th...

La Palma: el último volcán

La Palma: el último volcán

2022

as Narrator

6.5
Acting
19

19

2022

as Herself

2.0
Acting

A delicate portrait of the longing for security amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Perfect Family

The Perfect Family

2021

as Lucía

5.5
Acting

Lucía (Belén Rueda) is a woman for whom leading a model life and taking control of her life is the most important thing. Since she got married, she ha...

The Tenant

The Tenant

2021

8.5
Acting

Mia’s leg has suddenly gone numb. We’ll reveal no more. A hair-raising new nightmare from Lucas Paulino and Ángel Torres, gifted Spanish filmmakers be...

Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City

Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City

2019

as Alba

5.6
Acting

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, 2019. Two corpses appear in the crypt of the Old Cathedral. Police officer Unai López de Ayala, an expert in c...

Mirage

Mirage

2018

as Dr. Sardón

7.5
Acting

During a mysterious thunderstorm, Vera, a young mother, manages to save a life in danger, but her good deed causes a disturbing chain of unexpected co...

Querido Fotogramas

Querido Fotogramas

2018

as Self

4.0
Acting

The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mosaic ...

The Pact

The Pact

2018

as Mónica

6.0
Acting

Suddenly, Clara, Mónica's daughter, falls into a deep coma. With Clara left to die, a mysterious man proposes Monica to make a pact: Clara will be sav...

Sara's Notebook

Sara's Notebook

2018

as Laura

6.1
Acting

Laura has spent years looking for her sister Sara who went missing in the depths of the jungle in the Congo. Neither the NGO she works for, nor the em...

You Shall Not Sleep

You Shall Not Sleep

2018

as Alma Böhm

5.5
Acting

In an abandoned psychiatric hospital, a theatre group experiments with insomnia for the preparation of a stage play. With the passage of days without ...

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers

2017

as Eva

6.7
Acting

During a lunar eclipse, seven friends gather for dinner and decide to play a game in which they must share with each other the content of every messag...

Orbiter 9

Orbiter 9

2017

as Silvia

5.8
Acting

Helena, a young woman on a deep space mission, has been alone for 20 years. Her parents abandoned ship after a technical malfunction made it impossibl...

Broken Basket

Broken Basket

2017

Acting
The Night My Mother Killed My Father

The Night My Mother Killed My Father

2016

as Isabel

5.9
Acting

Isabel is torn between the need to feel valued as an actress and her insecurities and contradictions. One night, she hosts a very special dinner: her ...

Una vez

Una vez

2015

as Chila

Acting

On a day like any other, Chila Huerta wakes up her three children and abandons the house that she shares with her husband. The town is left to wonder ...

Ismael

Ismael

2013

as Nora

5.9
Acting

An aging couple follows after Ismael Tchou, an 8-year-old, who is trying to find his way to his estranged biological father all by himself.

Strings

Strings

2013

as Maestra (voice)

8.0
Acting

María's routine at school is altered by the arrival of a very special child. Soon, they become close friends.

7th Floor

7th Floor

2013

as Delia

5.8
Acting

Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sebastián, a successful lawyer, leaves his ex-wife's condo, located on the seventh floor of an apartment building, to take hi...

The Body

The Body

2012

as Mayka Villaverde

7.5
Acting

A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help ...

Don't Be Afraid

Don't Be Afraid

2011

as Silvia's Mother

6.6
Acting

Silvia is a young girl marked by a dark childhood. When she is barely twenty-five, she decides to start over and to face the people, feelings and emot...

Julia's Eyes

Julia's Eyes

2010

as Julia Levin / Sara

6.7
Acting

Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her blind sister Sara hung in a basement. Despite all signs pointing to suicide, Jul...

For the Good of Others

For the Good of Others

2010

as Isabel

5.3
Acting

Diego is a doctor so used to working in extreme situations that he has immunized himself to others' pain. He has switched off from his work, his partn...

La princesa de Éboli

La princesa de Éboli

2010

as Princesa de Éboli

6.0
Acting

Ana de Mendoza y de Silva, Princess of Éboli, is accused of treason and imprisoned in 16th Century Spain.

Spanish Movie

Spanish Movie

2009

as Laura

5.0
Acting

Large doses of humor, ingenious nods to Spain's most recent national cinema, an artistic cast highly linked to comedy and a high reserve of surprises ...

8 Dates

8 Dates

2008

as Elena

5.1
Acting

Men and women deal with different stages of love. Desire, jealousy, longing and melancholy are part of the romantic story of each of the characters, i...

Arctic Tale

Arctic Tale

2007

as Narradora

6.7
Acting

Arctic Tale is a 2007 documentary film from the National Geographic Society about the life cycle of a walrus and her calf, and a polar bear and her cu...

The Orphanage

The Orphanage

2007

as Laura

7.2
Acting

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicat...

Savage Grace

Savage Grace

2007

as Pilar Durán

5.6
Acting

This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely so...

The Sea Inside

The Sea Inside

2004

as Julia

7.6
Acting

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to...

Retruc

Retruc

2001

as Elsa

Acting
Evil Dress

Evil Dress

N/A

as Alicia

Acting

After her divorce, Alicia moves to a remote house with daughter Carla. When Carla finds a blue dress and contacts a ghost girl, dark secrets surface, ...