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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Every Day a Smart Guy Is Born
2026
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
2025
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
2025
as Edurne
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
2024

Free Falling
2024
as Marisol
Marisol is the national rhythmic gymnastics coach, methodical, demanding and authoritative. The World Championship is approaching and she places all h...

The Chapel
2023
as Carol
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
2023
as Sagrario
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
2022
as Narrator

19
2022
as Herself
A delicate portrait of the longing for security amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Perfect Family
2021
as Lucía
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
2021
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
2019
as Alba
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
2018
as Dr. Sardón
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
2018
as Self
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
2018
as Mónica
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
2018
as Laura
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
2018
as Alma Böhm
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
2017
as Eva
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
2017
as Silvia
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
2017

The Night My Mother Killed My Father
2016
as Isabel
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
2015
as Chila
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
2013
as Nora
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
2013
as Maestra (voice)
María's routine at school is altered by the arrival of a very special child. Soon, they become close friends.

7th Floor
2013
as Delia
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
2012
as Mayka Villaverde
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
2011
as Silvia's Mother
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
2010
as Julia Levin / Sara
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
2010
as Isabel
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
2010
as Princesa de Éboli
Ana de Mendoza y de Silva, Princess of Éboli, is accused of treason and imprisoned in 16th Century Spain.

Spanish Movie
2009
as Laura
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
2008
as Elena
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
2007
as Narradora
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
2007
as Laura
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
2007
as Pilar Durán
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
2004
as Julia
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
2001
as Elsa

Evil Dress
N/A
as Alicia
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, ...