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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

A Free Man
2025
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
2025
as (self)
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
2023
as Self

Las cartas perdidas
2022

Despite Everything
2019
as Carmen
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
2018
as Marisa
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
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 ...

Latin Lover
2015
as Ramona
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
2014
as Madre

Dreamland
2013
as Maria
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
2012
as D. Filipa Sanches
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
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 ...

Photo
2012
as Pilar
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
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,...

The Skin I Live In
2011
as Marilia
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
2011
as Judit Canalès
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
2010
as Herself
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
2010
as María Luisa
Yao and Moroccan Rachid arrive illegally in Valencia, Spain, and separate. Yao sells pirated DVDs in the street and wanders disconsolately around the ...

Gigola
2010
as Odette
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
2009
Thanks
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
2009
as Ana

The Man Who Loves
2008
as Dottoressa Campo
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
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...

Després de la pluja
2007
as Executive Director

El camino de Ana
2007
as Ana

Four Last Songs
2007
as Veronica
A comic drama set on a Mediterranean island, where a motley collection of characters is seeking musical redemption.

Magic Mirror
2006
as Monja
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!
2005
as Self (archive footage)
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
2005
as Reyes
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
2004
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
2004
as Clara
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'
2004
as Self
The making of “The Devil’s Backbone” by Guillermo del Toro.

Una preciosa puesta de sol
2003
Three women from three different generations meet at last in a trip to a resort in northern Spain.

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.

Savages
2001
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
2001
as Carmen
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
2000
as Woman on metro (uncredited)
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
1999
as María
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
1999
as Lola
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
1999
as Huma
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
1998
as Doña Consuelo
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
1998
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
1998
as Elise von Sekt, Milady
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
1998
as Susana
Susana Gardenia, a seductive woman, feels a strange fascination with monsters and deformed beings. Feeling neglected, Vicente, her husband, follows he...

Life Is Beautiful
1997
as Dora's Mother
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
1996
as Irene Gallardo
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
1996
as Maria
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
1995
as Leo Macías
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
1995
as Julia Márquez
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
1995
as Madre di Luca
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
1993
as Suzana
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
1993
as Olga
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
1992
as Mujer desconocida
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
1992
as Le Maîtresse de Cérémonie
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
1992
as Sarah Bernhardt
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
1991
as Becky del Páramo
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
1989
as Xulia
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
1989
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
1988
as María Luisa

Tu novia está loca
1988
as Adela
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
1987
as Marisa
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
1987
as Olga
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
1986
as Invitada de la fiesta (segment "Delirio 3") (uncredited)
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
1986
as Griselda
A mysterious teenager named Ángelo cares for Klaus, a German doctor with a dark past who lives trapped in an iron lung.

Tata Mía
1986
as Paloma
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
A short film starring Pedro Almodóvar and Marisa Paredes, parodying a 1940s torch song, the famous Spanish copla "Tatuaje".

Bicycles Are for the Summer
1984
as María Luisa
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
1983
as Sor Estiércol
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
1980
as Carmen
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
1980
as Zoila Gómez
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
1977
as Guerrillera
A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog.
En provincia
1975
as Clara

Larga noche de julio
1974
as Carmen - Prima política de Toni
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
1973
as Luisa Fernanda
A 1973 TV adaptation of the classic spanish zarzuela
Abismo
1972

Goya: A Story of Solitude
1971
as La Maja
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

Cake of Blood
1971
as Elizabeth (segment "Victor Frankenstein")
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
1970
as Elvira Rey García
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
1969
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
1969
as Soledad

Requiem for a Gringo
1968
as Nina
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
1968

El mercader de Venecia
1967
as Jessica

Las salvajes en Puente San Gil
1967
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
1963
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
1962
as Klemp
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
1961
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
1960

Police Calling 091
1960
as (uncredited)
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
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...