Biography
Cecilia Edith Rotenberg Gutkin (Buenos Aires, born August 8, 1956), better known as Cecilia Roth, is an Argentine theatre, film, and television actress. She is the winner of two Goya Awards and a European Film Award. She is known for being an "Almodóvar girl" and the "muse" of Fito Páez during the 1990s.
Known For
Complete Filmography

No Guilt
2024
as Carola
The life of Berta Muller, a successful writer, is shaken when, at the peak of her career, she is exposed in the media for plagiarism. Far from taking ...

Goyo
2024
as Magda
A young autistic museum guide lives by a strict routine — until he falls in love with his coworker and must confront a whirlwind of new, intense emoti...

Conversations on Hatred
2023
“Conversations on Hatred” by Vera Fogwill from Argentina narrates a real-time story of a farewell between two terminally ill women. In this intimate a...

The Parties
2022
as María Paz
Sergio, Mali and Luz reluctantly agreed to spend Christmas in the country with their mother; in part because of the guilt they feel about saying no wh...

En cumplimiento del deber
2022
as Narrator
This documentary tells through the story of various relatives and testimonies the fire at the Iron Mountain company that led to the death of six polic...

Mansión Helada
2021
as Griselda
A portrait of what fame and love hurts.

The Intruder
2021
as Marta
Inés works as a dubbing actress and sings in a choir in Buenos Aires. While on an idyllic trip she suffers a traumatic episode that she can’t recover ...

The Crimes That Bind
2020
as Alicia
When her son is accused of raping and trying to murder his ex-wife, Alicia embarks on a journey that will change her life forever.

Pain and Glory
2019
as Zulema
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a sma...

El Angel
2018
as Aurora
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, wit...

Breadcrumbs
2016
as Liliana Pereira
When Liliana decides to return to Uruguay she will have to face up to a new dilemma, perhaps the last great dilemma of her life: To choose between sup...

Una Vida Posible
2013

I'm So Excited!
2013
as Norma Bosch
Something has gone wrong with the landing gear of a plane en route from Madrid to Mexico City. The group of eccentric travelers on the flight, defense...

Marriage
2013
as Molly
Esteban and Molly have been married for over twenty years. On a cold morning in June the couple realizes they have hit rock bottom and that their rela...

Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother
2012
as Self
Shot in 1999, "All About My Mother" is Pedro Almodóvar's thirteenth feature film. The director was a key figure in the turbulent Movida (the movement ...

The Making of All About My Mother
2012
as Self
A documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar; Agustín Almodóvar; actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes,...

La peli de Batato
2011
as Herself
Batato Barea, the “clown/intellectual/transvestite” was a genius of the underground scene who was able to represent all the nuances of a changing coun...

Empty Nest
2008
as Martha
Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly si...

Les pel·lícules del meu pare
2007
The protagonist has no memory of her father. However, as she watches the films he made before she was born, in which several young girls appear, she b...

Our Father
2006
as Maite
Children come to a hospital to visit their dying father they haven't seen for 8 years. They try to recover their relationships before he dies.

Sofacama
2006
as Bernie
A separated yet self-sufficient craftswoman puts up a friend who is also separating. The hostess has three teenage children, and the arrival of her gu...

Otros días vendrán
2005
as Alicia
Alicia (Cecilia Roth) is a school teacher in his forties who begins a relationship online with Zaz (Nacho Aldeguer), 17. When the affair begins to lea...
The Landless
2004
as Narrator
This documentary traces the rise of Brazil's Landless Movement (MST) from its founding in 1984 to the 2002 election of Brazil's first working class pr...

Luisa Sanfelice
2004
as Regina Carolina
An 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.

Lucía, Lucía
2003
as Lucía
Lucia, an children's book author, tells the story of her husband's disappearance. One day on their way to Brazil he just disappears. She goes to the p...

Kamchatka
2002
as Mother
In 1976, Argentina fell into the hands of a de facto government. Thousands of citizens are persecuted and kidnapped. This is the case of the parents o...

Desire
2002
as Alina
In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.

Talk to Her
2002
as Espectadora (uncredited)
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

Antigua vida mía
2001
as Violeta Dasinski
An abused wife (Cecilia Roth) seeks information about her dead mother, a freedom fighter buried in Antigua.

Private Lives
2001
as Carmen Uranga
Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentina), she returns to solve a family problem related ...

A Night with Sabrina Love
2000
as Sabrina Love
When he wins a contest, seventeen-year-old Daniel Montero gets to spend a night in Buenos Aires with his favorite adult movie star, Sabrina Love. Howe...

Second Skin
1999
as Eva
When Elena finds a hotel bill in her husband’s pocket, she begins to suspect that he’s having an affair — but not that it’s with a man.

All About My Mother
1999
as Manuela
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy nev...

Ashes of Paradise
1997
as Juez Beatriz Teller
A judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the three sons of the judge there is a connection that wi...

Martin (Hache)
1997
as Alicia
An emotionally distant father attempts to reconnect with the son he abandoned. After his estranged son tries to commit suicide, Argentine expat Martín...

Wild Horses
1995
A man tries to rob a bank and the bank's clerk, a yuppie, pretends the thief has kidnapped him to help him run away. While they're running away, they ...

La balada de Donna Helena
1994

A Place in the World
1992
as Ana
Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a w...

Vivir mata
1991
A diplomat is sent to Wallachia late nineteenth century. There he meets a young princess. Back in Buenos Aires, and a century later and turned into a ...

I, the Worst of All
1990
as La Virreina (voice)
Assumpta Serna stars as the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz in this magnificent portrayal of 17th Century Mexico. In order t...

The Loves of Kafka
1988
as Hermana de Kafka
A movie director from Argentine travels to Prague to make a film about Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenská.

The Stranger
1987
as Anita
Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then flees. During her escape, she has a car accident. Sh...

Pigmalión
1986
Pepe Carvalho receives a call from an ex-lover in distress.

The Secret Garden
1984
as Paola
A few days ago, Lucia (Assumpta Serna) receives anonymous letters in which he is forced to perform certain actions that she accepts without question. ...

What Have I Done to Deserve This?
1984
as Chica anuncio
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her heads...

What Have I Done to Deserve This?
1984
Costume Design
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her heads...

Todo va mal
1984
as Lina

El señor Galíndez
1984
as Coca
El senor Galindez is a Spanish movie starring Antonio Banderas

Dark Habits
1983
as Merche
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.

Labyrinth of Passion
1982
as Sexilia
An array of outrageous people, including a desperate nymphomaniac and a terrorist with an acute sense of smell, seek love and happiness in Madrid.

Trágala, perro
1981
as Micaela
Sister Patrocinio is a nun who is stigmatized by Christ in her hands and feet. Although some believe in this mystical fact, others suspect of manipula...
Pepe, no me des tormento
1981
as Bárbara

Pepi, Luci, Bom
1980
as Girl in the Panties Commercial
After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of ou...

Rapture
1980
as Ana Turner
José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable indi...

Erotic Stories
1980
as Sra. Josephson / Mujer Rubia (segments "Koñensonaten" and "Frac")
A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost ...

The Semester We Loved Kim Novak
1980
In the late '50s, a young student falls in love with actress Kim Novak and fills the walls of his room with her photographs. One day, he meets a girl ...

Reproches
1980

La familia bien, gracias
1979
as Mónica
Sequel to "The Great Family" and "Family and one more". A widower and the godfather of his 16 children, aged two, wistfully contemplate the past. The ...

Las verdes praderas
1979
as Matilde, hermana de Conchi
José is a happily married executive, with children, a flat in Madrid and a house in the suburbs. It's Friday and the weekend seems to follow the usual...

Cecilia Roth: Material for Rapture
1979
as Self
Recovered Zulueta short.

Rings of Fear
1978
as Salesgirl
Angela Russo, a sixteen-year-old girl, is found dead in a river, having been fatally violated with a large blunt instrument. Inspector Di Salvo is as...

Growing Up Suddenly
1977
It tells the complex relationship of Milo, a teenager, and his old protector. Adaptation of "Around the cage", work of the writer Haroldo Conti, disap...

No toquen a la nena
1976
A man becomes overprotective of his daughter as a friend of his son comes to live at the family home.
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