
Belén Rueda
Rueda was born in Madrid. Her father was a civil engineer and her mother was a ballet instructor. She is the second of three children; her siblings are named Chus and Violeta (Ms. Rodal). She and her family moved to San Juan, Alicante when she was a child because of her younger sister's asthmatic problems. She was married to Daniel Écija and had three children with him, Beliá (b.1994), María (b.1996) and Lucía (b.1998); unfortunately, their second child died of a heart disease as a baby. She is now a divorcée. When Rueda was 18 years old she moved to Madrid to study architecture, but she left the university when she met an Italian man whom she later married. Rueda returned to Madrid and worked as a salesperson and a model until she finally became a TV presenter. After that she worked as an actress on television, including the show Los Serrano, and eventually acted in films. She won a Goya Award in 2004 for her role as Julia in Mar Adentro (The Sea Inside). She received another Goya nomination for her role in the 2007 film, The Orphanage. Rueda played the lead role of the Spanish thriller Los ojos de Julia, which is produced by Guillermo Del Toro.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.574 |
Birthday | 1965-03-16 |
Place of Birth | Madrid, Spain |
Also Known As | Белен Руэда, |

2023

The Chapel
5/17
Emma wants to learn how to communicate with the spirit of a girl who has been trapped in a hermitage for centuries, and to that end, she tries to pers...
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The Chapel

2004

The Sea Inside
7.6/928
Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to...
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The Sea Inside

2007

The Orphanage
7.232/2896
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicat...
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The Orphanage

2021

The Tenant
8.5/2
Mia’s leg has suddenly gone numb. We’ll reveal no more. A hair-raising new nightmare from Lucas Paulino and Ángel Torres, gifted Spanish filmmakers be...
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The Tenant

2017

Broken Basket
0/0
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2023

Phenomena
5.8/140
Madrid, Spain, 1998. The many resources and skills of Gloria, Paz and Sagrario, three middle-aged women investigating paranormal events, are put to th...
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Phenomena

2001

Retruc
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2010

Julia's Eyes
6.642/791
Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her blind sister Sara hung in a basement. Despite all signs pointing to suicide, Jul...
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Julia's Eyes

2010

For the Good of Others
5.3/44
Diego is a doctor so used to working in extreme situations that he has immunized himself to others' pain. He has switched off from his work, his partn...
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For the Good of Others

2011

Don't Be Afraid
6.6/51
Silvia is a young girl marked by a dark childhood. When she is barely twenty-five, she decides to start over and to face the people, feelings and emot...
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Don't Be Afraid

2012

The Body
7.5/1272
A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help...
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2013

Ismael
5.9/43
An aging couple follows after Ismael Tchou, an 8-year-old, who is trying to find his way to his estranged biological father all by himself.
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2013

7th Floor
5.8/225
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sebastián, a successful lawyer, leaves his ex-wife's condo, located on the seventh floor of an apartment building, to take hi...
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2007

Savage Grace
5.615/196
This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely so...
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Savage Grace

2008

8 Dates
5.1/15
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8 Dates

2013

Strings
8/220
María's routine at school is altered by the arrival of a very special child. Soon, they become close friends.
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2022

19
2/1
A delicate portrait of the longing for security amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2024

Free Falling
7.067/15
Marisol is the national rhythmic gymnastics coach, methodical, demanding and authoritative. The World Championship is approaching and she places all h...
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2007

Arctic Tale
6.7/28
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2016

The Night My Mother Killed My Father
6/106
Isabel is torn between the need to feel valued as an actress and her insecurities and contradictions. One night, she hosts a very special dinner: her...
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2025

Los Muértimer
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2022

La Palma: el último volcán
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2017

Orbiter 9
5.8/284
Helena, a young woman on a deep space mission, has been alone for 20 years. Her parents abandoned ship after a technical malfunction made it impossibl...
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2017

Perfect Strangers
6.7/642
During a lunar eclipse, seven friends gather for dinner and decide to play a game in which they must share with each other the content of every messag...
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2018

Sara's Notebook
6.1/158
Laura has spent years looking for her sister Sara who went missing in the depths of the jungle in the Congo. Neither the NGO she works for, nor the em...
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2010

La princesa de Éboli
6/1
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2018

You Shall Not Sleep
5.5/134
In an abandoned psychiatric hospital, a theatre group experiments with insomnia for the preparation of a stage play. With the passage of days without...
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2018

The Pact
5.9/93
Suddenly, Clara, Mónica's daughter, falls into a deep coma. With Clara left to die, a mysterious man proposes Monica to make a pact: Clara will be sav...
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2019

Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City
5.6/325
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2018

Querido Fotogramas
4/2
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...
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2015

Una vez
0/0
On a day like any other, Chila Huerta wakes up her three children and abandons the house that she shares with her husband. The town is left to wonder...
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2018

Mirage
7.5/1810
During a mysterious thunderstorm, Vera, a young mother, manages to save a life in danger, but her good deed causes a disturbing chain of unexpected co...
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Mirage

2009

Spanish Movie
5/171
Large doses of humor, ingenious nods to Spain's most recent national cinema, an artistic cast highly linked to comedy and a high reserve of surprises...
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2021

The Perfect Family
5.5/119
Lucía (Belén Rueda) is a woman for whom leading a model life and taking control of her life is the most important thing. Since she got married, she ha...
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The Perfect Family

2025

Un funeral de locos
0/0
The members of a family come to say goodbye to the recently deceased patriarch. But what should have been a heartfelt wake turns into a crazy gatherin...
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2024

Asesinatos sólo en El Hormiguero
0/0
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