Ruth Gabriel
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Ruth Gabriel is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
; July 10, 1975 - ) is a Spanish
Spain
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actress.
Daughter of the actor Ismael Sánchez Abellán and actress and writer Ana María Bueno (better known as Ana Rosetti), Gabriel was born in San Fernando, Cadiz, but spent her childhood in Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
.
At 14 years of age, she moved to the United States
United States
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, where she took interpretation classes. She later continued her education in Florence, where her mother had moved. Upon returning to Madrid, she continued her artistic development through dance and fencing classes, working as a waiter.
She took the name Ruth Gabriel when she acted in her first film, Días contados by Imanol Uribe
Imanol Uribe
Imanol Uribe is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director.He was born in San Salvador, and is of Basque ancestry. Uribe was married to María Barranco...
. She received the Concha de Oro and the Goya Award for Best New Actress
Goya Award for Best New Actress
The Goya Award for Best New Actor is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards.In the list below the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees....
and was nominated for Best Leading Actress
Goya Award for Best Actress
The Goya Award for Best Actress is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards....
.
She acted in Señales de fuego, by the Portuguese Luis Filipe Rocha
Luís Filipe Rocha
Luís Filipe Rocha is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter and actor. He has directed ten films since 1976. His film Cerromaior was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
; Gran Slalom, by Jaime Chávarri
Jaime Chávarri
Jaime Chávarri y de la Mora is a Spanish actor, screenwriter and film director. His mother María de la Mora y Maura was a maternal granddaughter of Antonio Maura....
; and 99.9, by Agustí Villaronga
Agustí Villaronga
Agustí Villaronga Riutort is a Balearic Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor. He has directed eleven films since 1976. His film El niño de la luna was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival....
.
She participated in the first season of the series Querido maestro, with Imanol Arias
Imanol Arias
Imanol Arias born Manuel María Arias Domínguez , is a Spanish actor and one off film director.Imanol Arias began his career with a travelling theatre group in Spain performing in the Basque Country of northern Spain. He debuted on TV in 1976 and his first film was in "Cecilia " of 'Humberto Solas'...
y Emma Suárez
Emma Suárez
Emma Suárez is a Spanish actress.- Biography :Suárez' debut performance was at the age of 15, with Memorias de Leticia Valle.In 1987 she appeared in Joaquín Sabina's videoclip, Así estoy yo sin ti....
between 1997 and 1998.
Her first interpretation job was for the Spanish version of Sesame Street
Sesame Street
Sesame Street has undergone significant changes in its history. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. The...
(Barrio Sésamo),
Film
- Días contados (1994), de Imanol UribeImanol UribeImanol Uribe is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director.He was born in San Salvador, and is of Basque ancestry. Uribe was married to María Barranco...
. - Felicidades Tovarich (1995), de Antonio Eceiz.
- Señales de fuego (1995), de Luís Filipe RochaLuís Filipe RochaLuís Filipe Rocha is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter and actor. He has directed ten films since 1976. His film Cerromaior was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
. - A tres bandas (1997), de Enrico Coletti.
- 99.9 (1997), de Agustí VillarongaAgustí VillarongaAgustí Villaronga Riutort is a Balearic Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor. He has directed eleven films since 1976. His film El niño de la luna was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival....
. - Doña BárbaraDoña Bárbara (1998 film)Doña Bárbara is a 1998 Argentine-Spanish romantic drama film directed by Betty Kaplan adapted from the novel Doña Bárbara by Venezuelan author Rómulo Gallegos...
(1998), de Betty KaplanBetty KaplanBetty Kaplan is a Venezuelan-American film director born in New York City and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She has directed Betty Kaplan is a Venezuelan-American film director born in New York City and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She has directed Betty Kaplan is a Venezuelan-American film...
. - SinfínSinfinSinfin is a southern suburb of Derby, England, historically it was a separate village. It contained the main centre of Rolls-Royce, on Nightingale Road...
(2002), de Álvaro Olavarría y Alberto Ortiza. - Besos de gato (2003), de Rafael AlcázarRafael AlcázarRafael Alcázar is a Spanish screenwriter, film director and producer.-Filmography:* No hagas planes con Marga * Laberinto griego, El * Corsarios del chip * Besos de gato * Locuras de Don Quijote, Las...
. - Historia de Estrella (2003), de Manuel Estudillo.
- Lazos rotos (2007), de Miquel García Borda.
Television
- La cometa blanca (1982)
- Barrio SésamoBarrio SésamoBarrio Sésamo was the Spanish version of the popular U.S. children's program Sesame Street. The show premièred in 1979...
(1983-1987) - Querido maestro (1997)
- NostromoNostromoNostromo is a 1904 novel by Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana." It was originally published serially in two volumes of T.P.'s Weekly....
(1997) - La Mari (2003) (miniseries)