Emma Penella
Born: 1930-03-02 in Madrid, Spain
Died: 2007-08-27
Known For: Acting
Biography
Manuela Ruiz Penella known as Emma Penella (Madrid, March 2, 1931 - Ibidem, August 27, 2007) was a Spanish film, theater and television actress. Daughter of the politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso and Magdalena Penella Silva, granddaughter of the composer Manuel Penella Moreno, great-granddaughter of the also musician Manuel Penella Raga, sister of the also actresses Elisa Montés (1934) and Terele Pávez (1939-2017). She married film producer Emiliano Piedra with whom she had three daughters: Emma, Lola and Emiliana. She was also the aunt of the actress Emma Ozores (daughter of her sister Elisa Montés and the actor Antonio Ozores). Actress of marked personality and prestige since the 1950s, she triumphed in cinema thanks to films such as Luis García Berlanga's El verdugo (The Executioner) and maintained intense theatrical activity. She renewed her popularity in her later years participating in the television series Aquí no hay quien viva (2003-2006) and La que se avecina (2007).
Filmography
2021
- FFG, el último gran conversador as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2007
- La que se avecina as Charo de la Vega
2003
- No One Could Live Here as Concha de la Fuente
- Bulgarian Lovers as Remedios
2000
- Pídele cuentas al rey as Carmen
1997
- Blasco Ibáñez as Emilia Pardo Bazán
1996
- Thesis ... (Thanks)
1992
- El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes as Teresa Panza
1990
- Doblones de a ocho as Palmira
1989
- Juncal as Teresa Campos
1988
1987
- The Tobacconist of Vallecas as Doña Justa
1986
- El amor brujo as Tía Rosario
1985
- Our Father as María
- Goya
1974
- The Regent's Wife as Ana Ozores - La Regenta
1971
1970
- Fortunata y Jacinta as Fortunata
1966
- The Search as Rosa
- Lola, espejo oscuro as Lola
1965
- Black Humor as Miss Wilma - segment 2 'La Mandrilla - Miss Wilma'
1964
- Badmen of the West as Lucy
- Golden Goddess of Rio Beni as Dinah
1963
- Alegre juventud as Violeta
- The Executioner as Carmen, la hija de Amadeo
- La cuarta ventana as Dora García
- Carta a una mujer as Flora
- La hora incógnita
1961
- Scano Boa as Buba
1960
- Un ángel tuvo la culpa as Eulalia
- Sentencia contra una mujer
1959
- De espaldas a la puerta as Lola
1957
- The Shadow Battalion as Lola
- Un marido de ida y vuelta as Leticia Romero
- The War Starts in Cuba
1956
- Fedra, the Devil's Daughter as Estrella
1955
- Red Fish as Ivón
- El guardián del paraíso as La monjita
- Tres hombres van a morir as Héléna
1954
- Comedians as Marga
- The Adventurer of Seville as Duquesa de San Tirso
- La patrouille des sables as Héléna
1953
- Condemned to Hang as Consuelo
- ¡Che, qué loco! as Esperancita Couceiro
1952
- Truhanes de honor as Luisa
- The Eyes Leave a Trace as Lola
- Aimless boat
- Doña Francisquita as Aurora la Beltrana