Biography
Described by many as a Picasso come-to-life, de Palma broke the rules of beauty in 1988 when she starred in Pedro Almodóvar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and became a model and muse for designers like Jean-Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, and Sybilla. Her status as an iconic fashion character was further cemented with her role in Robert Altman’s 1994 satirical fashion film Prêt-à-Porter. Today, she is a theater actress, charity spokesperson for the Ghanian Charity OrphanAid Africa, a...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Día de caza
2025
as Rosa

Pedro x Javis
2025
Pedro Almodóvar, the Spanish director with the most international recognition, has impacted spectators all around the world. Among them are Javier Cal...

Estrella, cometa, satélite y planeta
2025
A documentary celebrating the life of Fernando Estrella, a pioneering LGBTI activist and beloved cultural icon. Through testimonies from friends and c...

Honeymoon Crasher
2025
as Gloria
When his fiancée dumps him at the altar for her ex, a young man is left with no alternative but to go on his romantic honeymoon with his mother.

The Opera! Arias for an Eclipse
2025
as Moire
A sudden gunshot shatters the dream of two lovers on their wedding day. The fate of Orpheus and Eurydice is cruel: on the very day they sought to seal...

Inside the Dream: Mugler
2024
as Self
Revolutionary fragrances, Haute Couture and spectacular shows: in the world of luxury, Thierry Mugler broke every code. Enter into the backstage of th...

Dear Paris
2024
as Dolorès
What makes life worth living? In a set of interconnected stories, several Paris residents see their lives turned upside down when death knocks at thei...

3 Days Max
2023
as Alba Suarez
The Grandmother of Ryane was kidnapped by a Mexican cartel and he has three days max to free her.

Carmen
2023
as Masilda
A young and fiercely independent woman, Carmen, is forced to flee her home in the Mexican desert following the brutal murder of her mother. She surviv...

Apaches: Gang of Paris
2023
as Sarah Bernardt
Paris, 1884. The lives of three orphaned children wandering the streets dominated by ruthless criminals change tragically when they carry out a daring...

El viaje de Julieta
2023
as Self

The House
2022
as Brigida
Emma, a French novelist aged 27, decide to go to Berlin and join a brothel to uncover the prostitution world, the subject of her new book. Such as gon...

The Sweet Taste of Success
2022
as Rossy de Palma
A transformative experience, this emotional documentary addresses some of the most pressing issues of the 21st century, reflecting on happiness, socia...

Rainbow
2022
In search of her mother, a teenager and her eccentric group of companions set off on a journey, trying to avoid the clutches of a wicked woman.

El refugio
2021
An actor in low hours and a young interpreter who threatens to displace the former thanks to the tricks of their agent; the owner of the high mountain...

Parallel Mothers
2021
as Elena
Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant...

Do You Do You Saint-Tropez
2021
as Carmen
Every summer, the Billionaire Tranchant and his wife Eliane host the glamorous world of celebrities in their luxurious mansion in the south of France....

A Mermaid in Paris
2020
as Rossy
A man rescues a mermaid in Paris and slowly falls in love with her.

The Rodriguez and the Beyond
2019
as Doctora Pilar
When a young boy finds a message from his late grandfather, his ordinary family discovers an extraordinary secret about themselves — and the universe.

My Brother Chases Dinosaurs
2019
as Auntie Rock / Zia Dolores
As a child, Jack believed the tender lie his parents told him, that Gio was a special being with superpowers, as in a comic book. Now that he is about...

I Miss You
2019
as Rosaura
Following his son Gabriel’s death, Jorge travels from conservative Bolivia to New York City to confront Gabriel’s boyfriend Sebastian. While the two b...

Despite Everything
2019
as Inés
Sara, Lucía, Sofía and Claudia are sisters, 4 modern women with very different personalities, who come together at their mother's funeral, after which...

À cause des filles…?
2019
as Artémis
At a wedding where the husband runs away, everyone has his own story to tell about the trivial misfortune of a person in love with someone that slips ...

Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic
2018
as Self
Inspired even as a boy by the Folies Bergere, the legendary Paris cabaret venue, couturier Jean-Paul Gaultier always wanted to stage a show there. "Bu...

¡Ay, Carmen!
2018
as Self - Actress
The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant arti...

Jean Paul Gaultier fait son show
2018
as Self
On the occasion of Jean Paul Gaultier's 40-year career and his show "Fashion Freak Show" at the Folies Bergère, France 2 has given carte blanche to th...

Black Is Beltza
2018
as Ruth Abramson (voice)
New York City, October 10, 1965. A group of wooden giant figures from Pamplona, representing Basque culture and traditions, parade down the street; bu...

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
2018
Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. I...

Brillantissime
2018
as Charline
After getting dumped on Christmas Eve, Angela must rebuild her life surrounded by her rebellious teenager, her tyrannical mother, her hysterical best ...

The Exchange
2017
as Dómina
They are on their way and Eva is still insecure. Her deep love and devotion for Jaime has led her to accept a special offer: swinging in order to arou...

Toc Toc
2017
as Ana María
A group of patients meet at a prestigious psychologist's office. Apart from the day and time of the appointment, something else unites them all: all s...

Madame
2017
as Maria
Anne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they...

Lord, Give Me Patience
2017
as María Ramos
An ultraconservative family father must spend a weekend with his dysfunctional children for the burial of his wife.

En tu cabeza
2016
as Milagros (Vecina)
Andrea lives in the year 2052 and her job consists of travelling back in time, inserting herself into our heads to make us aware of the importance of ...

Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas
2016
as Self
When looking at Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography, it becomes evident that women are everywhere; in fact, his work revolves around them. His divas are the...

10 Years with Bebe
2016
as self
This documentary follows the journey of beloved Spanish musician Bebe as she embarks on a tour to celebrate her first album's 10-year anniversary.

Julieta
2016
as Marian
The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and...

Stranded
2015
as Mercè
The last train travel of the year from Barcelona to Madrid, suddenly stops by a voltage drop in the middle of nowhere during a fierce snowstorm. Becau...

Spy Time
2015
as Madre de Katia
Adolfo, a thirty something security guard, is going through a bad patch. Not only his lifetime girlfriend has just to finished with him to be a guy wi...

Just a Little Chemistry
2015
as Bárbara Sullivan
Fan girl finds herself torn between the attraction for her film idol and her best male friend.

French Cinema Mon Amour
2015
as Self
French Cinema Mon Amour is an ensemble film in which each contributor brings their own voice, their own particular approach, their culture, and their ...

Graziella
2015
as Graziella
A soulful examination of two defeated middle-aged characters who aren't sure that life holds the possibility of a second act.

The Material Boy
2015
as Self
An Italo-American teenaged girl in Michigan, with a Catholic family, becomes pregnant. To avoid both a scandal and an abortion, she secretly gives bir...

Do Not Disturb
2014
as Maria
Michel, who's crazy about jazz, has just found a rare album that he dreams of quietly listening to in his living room. But the world seems to have con...

Love of My Loves
2014
as Carmina
Two couples get to know what we all dream about: love at first sight. The problem is they meet it with different people to the ones they are engaged w...

Untied! Reflections on Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
2014
as Self
Produced in 2014, this documentary about the making of TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! features interviews with director Pedro Almodóvar; actors Antonio Bande...

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
2014
as Luna (voice)
In Scotland 1874, Jack is born on the coldest day ever. Because of the extreme cold, his heart stops beating. The responsible midwife in Edinburgh fin...

Three Many Weddings
2013
as Madre de Ruth
Ruth, a young researcher at a college, is invited to the weddings of three of her exes. She enlists the help of her assistant to find a companion for ...

I Don't Know Whether to Slit My Wrists or Leave Them Long
2013
as Lola
Julia, Lucas, Aaron, Nora and Lola live in a building in chaotic Mexico City. Everything changes when Felix moves to the unoccupied apartment next to...

&Me
2013
as Edurne's Mother
Three loners from Sitges, Berlin and Amsterdam try to blend together in Brussels, city of unification.
Run a way
2012
as La benemérita

Bright Spin
2012
as Amie de Patrick
Patrick moved to France to become a renowned historian. After learning his mother is about to die, he returns to Martinique and embraces his roots.

Miss Tacuarembo
2010
as Patricia Peinado
Miss Tacuarembó is a unique mixture of drama, comedy, musical with touches of parody and nostalgia which for its beautiful narration will attract many...

Gigola
2010
as Dominique
George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. ...

No Pasaran
2009
as Inès
Maxence Lafourcade raises pigs in the Pyrenees. His life changes when he learns that a highway will cross his his farm. To face the cynical deputy may...

Broken Embraces
2009
as Julieta
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, ...

Les Aristos
2006
as La duchesse Maria de Malaga i Benidorm
The Arbac de Neuvilles are one of the oldest families in France. They have inhabited their ancient château for fifty-two generations and are proud of ...

Girlfriends
2006
as La mère de Marie
Manon, Aurore, and Marie would like to represent their school at the Youth Challenge “Dance Special” organized by Paris’s city hall. If they win, they...

20 Centimeters
2005
as La Frío
Colloquially-told story of a few days in the life of Marieta, who's saving money for the last operation in her change from man to woman. She works as ...

Have You Met Claudia?
2004
as Aldo's Claudia
Claudia is married with Giovanni, a rather dull type. Meek Giacomo is happily divorced, until he meets her. Aldo is a colorful cabbie with whom she ha...

Double zéro
2004
as Le Monocle
Ben and Bill are the two worst, completely useless agents - real losers. But who else would you send on a super-difficult top-secret mission? The Fren...

People - Jet set 2
2004
as Pilar
John-John is the best party promoter in Ibiza. He's responsible for the wildest parties ever. A party fixed by John-John is bound to be a success, and...

Leave Your Hands on My Hips
2003
as Myriam Bardem
Odile is 42 years old actress and single mother. One day her 18 year old daughter decided to leave her and start living with the boyfriend. All of a s...

Dead Weight
2002
as Pauline Reggio
After winning the lottery, a convict must chase down the warden who has his winning ticket.

L'origine du monde
2001
as The Sphynx
A young policeman of Moroccan origin investigates the murder of an informer. His investigations soon lead him to question his own past.

The Mule
2000
as La Colombienne
A Colombian woman arrives at a French airport, she acts suspiciously and appears to be concealing something in her locked case. However a search of he...

The Damned Rib
1999
as Margarita
Four women decide to go together to have fun at a men's strip show. On the trip, the taxi driver pays attention to their conversation where each one t...

Nag la Bombe
1999
as Leïla
Nag, a prostitute, walks the streets. One night, a violent man sends her to the hospital. There she meets Herve, a nurse obsessed with people's age an...

The Loss of Sexual Innocence
1999
as Blind Woman
The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.

Foul Play
1998
as Concepcion Alibera
In this French comedy-drama, actor Angelo Bastiani installs satellite dishes when not auditioning for films. After being told he's not convincing enou...

Talk of Angels
1998
as Elena
This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activis...

Franchesca Page
1998
as Veronica
The story follows the adventures of Rita Page, an aspiring showgirl in Las Vegas and his daughter Franchesca completely talentless, in their relentles...

La Femme du cosmonaute
1997
as Catherine
Anna and her husband Jean-Paul have to face a long and difficult separation since Jean-Paul is a spationaut. Thanks to a video device they can see eac...

Airbag
1997
as Carmiña, mujer de Pazos en una fotografía
Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside the body of a prosti...

A Body in the Woods
1996
as Teniente Cifuentes
A hard-hitting police investigation with Rossy de Palma taking the lead as the police officer responsible for solving the murder of a young woman whos...

The Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirlwind of Sex and Politics
1996
During the general elections of 1994, Tunin, a mechanic with a firm belief in communism fears that his party is about to lose, so he journeys to a no...

Chicken Park
1996
as Necrophilia
Vladimiro travels to the Dominican Republic with his fighting-chicken when it gets stolen. While searching for his lost chicken he discovers Chicken P...

The Flower of My Secret
1995
as Rosa
Leo is a middle-aged writer of popular romantic novels who writes under a pseudonym, since she despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works ...

Peggio di così si muore
1995
as Myrna
In this deliberately campy, slightly slapstick European parody of Alfred Hitchcock films from the 1950s, a newlywed couple returns from their honeymoo...

What's It All About
1995
as Librarian
Minimalistic frieze fifteen episodes about human behavior (desire, submission, love, jealousy, wisdom, honesty, sincerity, passion, faith, ...) locate...

Prêt-à-Porter
1994
as Pilar
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.

Barcelona
1994
as girl in party
During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from h...

La Machine Mode
1994
as Herself
A private look at the fall 1994 fashion collections in Paris.

Kika
1993
as Juana
When American author Nicholas brings in a cosmetologist named Kika to prepare the corpse of his recently deceased son, she inadvertently revives the y...

Rose rosse per una squillo
1993
as Juliette
An intricate story of crimes, blackmail and torrid passions.

Mutant Action
1993
as Invitada de lujo
Waging war against all things glamorous and beautiful, crippled terrorists Acción Mutante plot a series of attacks on society's elite, and attempt the...

Sam's Enough
1992
as Chichi
After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something new, so she heads over to France and becomes the ro...

Aquí, el que no corre... vuela
1992
Lola, a member of a gang of crooks, is visited by a cousin who comes to work in a multinational.

The Naked Target
1992
as Dama 2
A New York executive is handcuffed to a precious briefcase to which only his Spanish contact holds the key and of which many others are in hot pursuit...

The Family Jewels
1991
as Donatella
Sexual infedelity, blackmail, murder and suicide plague a fashion house and its nymphomaniac owner…

Madonna: Truth or Dare
1991
as Self
From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this documentary...

In The Rose Garden
1990
as Rosy
An advertiser who lives in Milan learns from a former teacher that his mother is dying. He leaves immediately in his car; as he drives thinks back to ...

Don Juan, My Dear Ghost
1990
as Viuda de Prodini
Seville, November 1, 1990. Tenorio goes out of his grave, as every year. Similarly, Juan Marquina, a great actor, makes the general rehearsal of a mus...

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
1990
as Camello en Vespa
Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988
as Marisa
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciousl...

Law of Desire
1987
as Locutora tele
Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring hi...

Second to Nun
N/A
as Madame Laduree
A second take in life, with nun of the regrets.

Le vieux juif Blonde
N/A
as Voyante
Bitter Christmas
N/A
as Gabriela
Elsa, an advertising director, loses her mother during a long weekend in December. She works nonstop, neglecting her grief. After a panic attack, she ...