Marisa Paredes
Spanish actress Marisa Paredes began her career as a teen star in the 1960s, and started to reach international audiences during middle age, when she began working with director Pedro Almodovar. Few of her early films were seen beyond her native Spain (an exception being Jess Franco's 1962 horror film, "The Awful Dr. Orlof"), but in 1983, she appeared as one of the drug addicted nuns in Almodovar's early black comedy, "Dark Habits." As Almodovar's career continued, he used Paredes in a number of his films, including 1991's "High Heels," 1995's "The Flower of My Secret," and 1999's "All About My Mother"; always as a middle-aged woman with complicated, unresolved problems. Outside of her work with Almodovar, Paredes has played the unhappy mother-in-law of Roberto Benigni's character in the Holocaust drama "Life is Beautiful" and the head of the haunted orphanage in Guillermo del Toro's 2001 ghost story, "The Devil's Backbone." While many actresses age into benign grandmotherly characters, Paredes exudes a strength that seems to assure she will continue to land meatier roles.
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Marisa Paredes
Filmography
Movies
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A pesar de todo | Carmen (Character) | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sand & Fire | Lady Williams (Character) | - | 2019 |
94% |
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Petra | Marisa (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dreamland | Maria (Character) | - | 2013 |
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Lines of Wellington | D. Filipa Sanches (Character) | - | 2012 |
82% |
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The Skin I Live In | Marilia (Character) | $3.2M | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | His Mother's Eyes | Judit Canalès (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Photo | Pilar (Character) | - | 2011 |
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Gigola | Odette (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Crazy Loves | Ana (Character) | - | 2009 |
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Amores Locos | Unknown (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 1st Time 16 MM | Unknown (Character) | - | 2008 |
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The Man Who Loves | Dr. Campo (Character) | - | 2008 |
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Four Last Songs | Veronica (Character) | - | 2007 |
45% |
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Queens | Reyes (Character) | $139.4K | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Frío sol de invierno | Raquel (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Beautiful Sunset | Rosario (Character) | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Red Sunset | Clara (Character) | - | 2003 |
93% |
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The Devil's Backbone | Carmen (Character) | $754.7K | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Savages | Berta (Character) | - | 2001 |
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No One Writes to the Colonel | Lola (Character) | - | 1999 |
98% |
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All About My Mother | Huma Rojo (Character) | $8.3M | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jonah and Lila, Till Tomorrow | María (Character) | - | 1999 |
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Talk of Angels | Doña Consuelo (Character) | $15.5K | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Doctor Chance | Elise Von Sekt (Character) | - | 1997 |
81% |
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Life Is Beautiful | Madre di Dora (Character) | $57.6M | 1997 |
89% |
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Deep Crimson | Irene Gallardo (Character) | $3.1K | 1996 |
70% |
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Three Lives and Only One Death | María (Character) | $11.4K | 1996 |
86% |
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The Flower of My Secret | Leo Macías (Character) | $938.7K | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Diary of a Rapist | Madre de Luca (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tierno verano de lujurias y azoteas | Olga (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Off Season | Sarah Bernhardt (Character) | - | 1992 |
61% |
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High Heels | Becky del Páramo (Character) | $690.7K | 1991 |
67% |
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In a Glass Cage | Griselda (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tu novia está loca | Adela (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mientras haya luz | Unknown (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tata mía | Paloma (Character) | - | 1986 |
75% |
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Dark Habits | Sor Estiércol (Character) | - | 1984 |
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Bicycles Are for the Summer | Doña María Luisa (Character) | - | 1983 |
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Opera Prima | Zoila Gómez (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vengeance | Unknown (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fray Dólar | Unknown (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Requiem for A Gringo | Unknown (Character) | - | 1968 |