Marisa Paredes

Marisa Paredes

1946-04-03 Madrid, Spain 91 Credits

Biography

María Luisa Paredes Bartolomé, (3 April 1946-17 December 2024) born in Madrid was better known in showbusiness as Marisa Paredes. She was a Spanish actress known for All About My Mother and Life is Beautiful.

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A Free Man

A Free Man

2025

Acting

In the 1970s, Agustín Gómez Arcos rose to the top of French literature, while in his own country, Spain, his name remained hidden. A Free Man reflects...

Break a Leg

Break a Leg

2025

as (self)

Acting

4th February 1975. It's the first day of the historic actors strike that would bring the country's theatre activity to a halt for nine days. They dema...

El viaje de Julieta

El viaje de Julieta

2023

as Self

Acting
Las cartas perdidas

Las cartas perdidas

2022

Acting
Despite Everything

Despite Everything

2019

as Carmen

6.0
Acting

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

Petra

Petra

2018

as Marisa

6.3
Acting

Petra doesn’t know who her father is. Her entire life, it’s been hidden from her. After the death of her mother, she embarks on a search that leads he...

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 ...

Latin Lover

Latin Lover

2015

as Ramona

5.8
Acting

The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a ...

Silencios

Silencios

2014

as Madre

7.0
Acting
Dreamland

Dreamland

2013

as Maria

5.4
Acting

An affluent city is covered in snow, all seems perfect – on the surface. Divorcé Rolf is doing his best to rebuild his relationship with his daughter....

Lines of Wellington

Lines of Wellington

2012

as D. Filipa Sanches

5.8
Acting

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.

Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother

Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother

2012

as Self

8.0
Acting

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 ...

Photo

Photo

2012

as Pilar

5.0
Acting

Her mother has just died. Her father is not what she had thought. Caught between an uncertain past, which she knows only through the photographs her m...

The Making of All About My Mother

The Making of All About My Mother

2012

as Self

Acting

A documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar; Agustín Almodóvar; actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes,...

The Skin I Live In

The Skin I Live In

2011

as Marilia

7.5
Acting

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the...

His Mother's Eyes

His Mother's Eyes

2011

as Judit Canalès

5.6
Acting

A writer suffering from a lack of inspiration sneaks his way into the lives of a star television journalist and his lead ballerina daughter to write, ...

1st Time 16mm

1st Time 16mm

2010

as Herself

2.0
Acting

Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon, ...

The God of Wood

The God of Wood

2010

as María Luisa

2.0
Acting

Yao and Moroccan Rachid arrive illegally in Valencia, Spain, and separate. Yao sells pirated DVDs in the street and wanders disconsolately around the ...

Gigola

Gigola

2010

as Odette

3.5
Acting

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. ...

The Limits of Control

The Limits of Control

2009

Thanks

6.0

A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlik...

Amores locos

Amores locos

2009

as Ana

5.0
Acting
The Man Who Loves

The Man Who Loves

2008

as Dottoressa Campo

5.8
Acting

A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved.

Les pel·lícules del meu pare

Les pel·lícules del meu pare

2007

3.6
Acting

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...

Després de la pluja

Després de la pluja

2007

as Executive Director

Acting
El camino de Ana

El camino de Ana

2007

as Ana

Acting
Four Last Songs

Four Last Songs

2007

as Veronica

5.4
Acting

A comic drama set on a Mediterranean island, where a motley collection of characters is seeking musical redemption.

Magic Mirror

Magic Mirror

2006

as Monja

6.3
Acting

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her gr...

Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido!

Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido!

2005

as Self (archive footage)

6.9
Acting

Abandoned by her husband, a woman takes to the streets in search of money to feed her children. (Promotional short for the film What Have I Done to De...

Queens

Queens

2005

as Reyes

5.9
Acting

In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, are entwined: Judge Helena is in c...

Cold Winter Sun

Cold Winter Sun

2004

4.0
Acting

Rich kid Adrian is released form the psychiatric institution where he has lived since he was a child and goes to live in the house he's been given by ...

Red Sunset

Red Sunset

2004

as Clara

5.0
Acting

Michel, was born in Latin America, "on the other side of the world", as the script emphasizes, of a French father he hardly knew at all. He goes to Pa...

Que es un Fantasma?: The Making of 'The Devil's Backbone'

Que es un Fantasma?: The Making of 'The Devil's Backbone'

2004

as Self

5.8
Acting

The making of “The Devil’s Backbone” by Guillermo del Toro.

Una preciosa puesta de sol

Una preciosa puesta de sol

2003

2.0
Acting

Three women from three different generations meet at last in a trip to a resort in northern Spain.

Talk to Her

Talk to Her

2002

as Espectadora (uncredited)

7.6
Acting

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

Savages

Savages

2001

5.8
Acting

Spanish drama about anti-immigrant racism and family problems. Berta is a single nurse raising her deceased sister's three teenage children in a Spani...

The Devil's Backbone

The Devil's Backbone

2001

as Carmen

7.3
Acting

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies ...

Leo

Leo

2000

as Woman on metro (uncredited)

6.8
Acting

Salva working as security guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a girl who makes a living collecting cardboard...

Jonas and Lila, Til Tomorrow

Jonas and Lila, Til Tomorrow

1999

as María

6.4
Acting

It’s December 1999, and 25-year-old Jonah has just graduated from film school. As the new millennium begins, Jonah marries his longtime sweetheart Lil...

No One Writes to the Colonel

No One Writes to the Colonel

1999

as Lola

5.1
Acting

Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all kn...

All About My Mother

All About My Mother

1999

as Huma

7.6
Acting

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...

Talk of Angels

Talk of Angels

1998

as Doña Consuelo

5.7
Acting

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...

Le serpent a mangé la grenouille

Le serpent a mangé la grenouille

1998

Acting

Yves Le Guen, a black man with a degree in economics, is hired as a handyman on the property of Mr. Moreau, a rich public works contractor. His arriva...

Doctor Chance

Doctor Chance

1998

as Elise von Sekt, Milady

5.5
Acting

Angstel trades in forged paintings, under the guidance of his mother, Milady. Their network extends into other murky affairs, provoking the wrath of a...

Señores de Gardenia

Señores de Gardenia

1998

as Susana

Acting

Susana Gardenia, a seductive woman, feels a strange fascination with monsters and deformed beings. Feeling neglected, Vicente, her husband, follows he...

Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful

1997

as Dora's Mother

8.4
Acting

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abr...

Deep Crimson

Deep Crimson

1996

as Irene Gallardo

6.8
Acting

Driven by desire and desperate for self-love, Coral and Nicolás will abandon their past lives in a journey surrounded by murder.

Three Lives and Only One Death

Three Lives and Only One Death

1996

as Maria

6.5
Acting

Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers ...

The Flower of My Secret

The Flower of My Secret

1995

as Leo Macías

6.8
Acting

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 ...

Ship of Fools

Ship of Fools

1995

as Julia Márquez

6.5
Acting

In a small town in Patagonia (Southern Argentina), a Mapuche Indian chief sets a tourist complex under construction on fire. He denies all attempts to...

Diary of a Rapist

Diary of a Rapist

1995

as Madre di Luca

4.8
Acting

This Italian film takes a chilling, nonexploitative look into the mind of a nice young man who compulsively rapes beautiful women. The rapes are graph...

Lost in Transit

Lost in Transit

1993

as Suzana

6.4
Acting

A traveller who has lost his passport in a Paris airport while between flights is restricted to a special transit zone. There he finds a group of simi...

Tierno verano de lujurias y azoteas

Tierno verano de lujurias y azoteas

1993

as Olga

4.7
Acting

A youngster recently arrived to Spain from Russia falls in love with his own cousin who is an astonishingly beautiful actress and, besides, much older...

La reina anónima

La reina anónima

1992

as Mujer desconocida

4.6
Acting

Anna Luz, a married woman, rethinks her life when she receives the visit of a stranger who claims to be her neighbor from the floor below. His arrival...

Golem, the Spirit of Exile

Golem, the Spirit of Exile

1992

as Le Maîtresse de Cérémonie

4.7
Acting

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblica...

Off Season

Off Season

1992

as Sarah Bernhardt

4.4
Acting

The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical ...

High Heels

High Heels

1991

as Becky del Páramo

7.1
Acting

After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Reb...

Continental

Continental

1989

as Xulia

3.0
Acting

At the end of the 50s, after assassinating the legendary capo Goncalves and dividing their domains, Ventura and Otálora, rival and old friends, fight...

Párpados

Párpados

1989

5.0
Acting

Párpados (the literal translation, “Eyelids”, misses the homophonic “par pa’ dos,” or “a couple for two”) is a 1989 television episode with an intrica...

La última cena... del 88

La última cena... del 88

1988

as María Luisa

Acting
Tu novia está loca

Tu novia está loca

1988

as Adela

4.5
Acting

Amaya is a modern girl, independent, who runs an advertising gency. The business is doing well and is enmaorada of her boyfriend, a lawyer of lost cau...

Mientras haya luz

Mientras haya luz

1987

as Marisa

5.0
Acting

Marisa, a 38 years old woman, tells a stranges story to her daughter while they're walking through a level crossing in Madrid. An anthropologist, Jaim...

Silver-beet Face

Silver-beet Face

1987

as Olga

5.8
Acting

On a road in the deep Spain, a wanderer with no fixed course and light luggage awaits someone to take him somewhere. His name is Antonio and this is h...

Love Ravings

Love Ravings

1986

as Invitada de la fiesta (segment "Delirio 3") (uncredited)

5.1
Acting

In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to extremes, and an antiquarian falls for a young ma...

In a Glass Cage

In a Glass Cage

1986

as Griselda

6.8
Acting

A mysterious teenager named Ángelo cares for Klaus, a German doctor with a dark past who lives trapped in an iron lung.

Tata Mía

Tata Mía

1986

as Paloma

5.5
Acting

Elvira, daughter of a disgraced military, who entered a convent at a young age leaves him and returns home to settle in Madrid with his beloved nanny,...

Tatuaje

1985

Acting

A short film starring Pedro Almodóvar and Marisa Paredes, parodying a 1940s torch song, the famous Spanish copla "Tatuaje".

Bicycles Are for the Summer

Bicycles Are for the Summer

1984

as María Luisa

6.8
Acting

In Madrid, the family of Don Luis, his wife Dolores and their children, Manolita and Luisito, share the daily life of the Civil War with their maid an...

Dark Habits

Dark Habits

1983

as Sor Estiércol

6.7
Acting

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

Sus años dorados

Sus años dorados

1980

as Carmen

4.2
Acting

María, a young and attractive woman, loses her job, meets Luis, a young man with no stable job neither, his wife supports him. Luis wants to start a r...

Opera Prima

Opera Prima

1980

as Zoila Gómez

5.9
Acting

Matias meets Violeta, his cousin one morning in Madrid at the Plaza de Opera. He is twenty-five. She is 18. He's a divorced journalist trying to write...

A Dog Called... Vengeance

A Dog Called... Vengeance

1977

as Guerrillera

5.6
Acting

A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog.

En provincia

1975

as Clara

Acting
Larga noche de julio

Larga noche de julio

1974

as Carmen - Prima política de Toni

7.0
Acting

Tony wants to carry out a perfect robbery and get a lot of money during the celebration of the 24 Hours of Montjuic, a motorcycle race. To accomplish ...

Luisa Fernanda

Luisa Fernanda

1973

as Luisa Fernanda

7.0
Acting

A 1973 TV adaptation of the classic spanish zarzuela

Abismo

1972

Acting
Goya: A Story of Solitude

Goya: A Story of Solitude

1971

as La Maja

7.3
Acting

A biography of the Spanish painter Francisco José de Goya (1746-1828), who went from being a court painter to creating heartbreaking images denouncing...

El espíritu del animal

1971

Acting
Cake of Blood

Cake of Blood

1971

as Elizabeth (segment "Victor Frankenstein")

3.0
Acting

Four part anthology horror film, with segments featuring witchcraft, ghosts, Frankenstein and his monster, and ancient Christians battling Celtic vamp...

El señorito y las seductoras

El señorito y las seductoras

1970

as Elvira Rey García

Acting

Antonio is a millionaire who spends his time conquering beautiful women aided by his faithful butler, Pablol. He tries to seduce the beautiful Marta, ...

Carola de día, Carola de noche

Carola de día, Carola de noche

1969

4.7
Acting

Due to the triumph of a revolution, Carola, a young and beautiful heiress to the throne, leaves her country to save her life; but her new existence, c...

La revoltosa

La revoltosa

1969

as Soledad

Acting
Requiem for a Gringo

Requiem for a Gringo

1968

as Nina

5.2
Acting

Returning home, Ross Logan immediately gets into conflict with the Carranza gang, which had just crossed the Mexican border and has occupied a nearby ...

Tinto con amor

Tinto con amor

1968

Acting
El mercader de Venecia

El mercader de Venecia

1967

as Jessica

Acting
Las salvajes en Puente San Gil

Las salvajes en Puente San Gil

1967

5.8
Acting

A revue troupe arrives in Puente San Gil, a small town, where they are received with hostility and contempt by the more conservative inhabitants.

Life Goes On

Life Goes On

1963

7.1
Acting

Madrid, Spain. Eloísa, a self-sacrificing wife and efficient mother, lives in the neighborhood of Maravillas with her husband, a violent policeman; he...

The Awful Dr. Orlof

The Awful Dr. Orlof

1962

as Klemp

5.9
Acting

Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face. He is assiste...

Cradle Song

Cradle Song

1961

Acting

In a Castilian convent of the late nineteenth century, the community of cloistered nuns celebrates the onomastic of their superior with a poem. She is...

Los económicamente débiles

Los económicamente débiles

1960

7.0
Acting
Police Calling 091

Police Calling 091

1960

as (uncredited)

5.8
Acting

A police inspector makes his service in a patrol car attenging emergency calls. A memory hauns him, the death of her daughter, who was killed hit by a...

Emergency Exit

N/A

Acting

It tells how 14 characters travel in a mysterious vehicle that they cannot easily get out of. Along the way, they fabricate about their identity and t...