Ruth Sánchez Bueno (born 10 July 1975), better known as Ruth Gabriel, is a Spanish actress.

Biography

Ruth Sánchez Bueno (her real name) was born in

San Fernando San Fernando may refer to: People *Ferdinand III of Castile (c. 1200–1252), called ''San Fernando'' (Spanish) or ''Saint Ferdinand'', King of Castile, León, and Galicia Places Argentina *San Fernando de la Buena Vista, city of Greater Buenos ...

(province of Cádiz) on 10 July 1975, daughter of actor Ismael Abellán and writer . Her aunt on the father side

Susi Sánchez Asunción Sánchez Abellán (born March 21, 1955), known as Susi Sánchez, is a Spanish theater, film, and television actress. Career Susi Sánchez is best known for her roles in the Vicente Aranda film '' Mad Love'', where she gives life to Qu ...

is also an actress. She spent her childhood in

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. At 14 years of age, she moved to the United States, where she took interpretation classes. She later continued her education in

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, Italy, 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 (born 28 February 1950) is a Spanish screenwriter and film director. He won the Goya Award for Best Director and Best Screenplay for the 1994 thriller '' Running Out of Time''. Biography Born in San Salvador on 28 February 1950 ...

. She received the Concha de Oro and the

Goya Award The Goya Awards ( es, Premios Goya) are Spain's main national annual film awards, commonly referred to as the Academy Awards of Spain. The awards were established in 1987, a year after the founding of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sci ...

for Best New Actress and was nominated for Best Leading Actress. She acted in ''Señales de fuego'', by the Portuguese

Luis Filipe Rocha Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

; ''Gran Slalom'', by

Jaime Chávarri Jaime Chávarri (born 20 March 1943) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter, best known for his films '' El desencanto'' and '' Las bicicletas son para el verano''. Life and career Chávarri comes from a prominent family. His mother Ma ...

; and ''99.9'', by

Agustí Villaronga Agustí Villaronga Riutort (; 4 March 1953 – 22 January 2023) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed several feature films, a documentary, three projects for television and three shorts. His film '' Moon Child'' was ...

. She participated in the first season of the series ''Querido maestro'', with

Imanol Arias Manuel María Arias Domínguez (born 26 April 1956 in Riaño, León, Spain) better known as Imanol Arias, is a Spanish actor and film director. Career Imanol Arias began his career with a travelling theatre group performing in the Basque C ...

Emma Suárez Emma Suárez Bodelón (born 25 June 1964) is a Spanish actress. She has won twice the Goya Award for Best Actress, namely for her performances in '' The Dog in the Manger'' (1996) and '' Julieta'' (2016). Biography Emma Suárez Bodelón was born ...

between 1997 and 1998. In 1997 she appeared in ''

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''. Her first interpretation job was for the Spanish version of ''

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'' (''Barrio Sésamo''),

Filmography

Film

* Días contados (1994), de

*Felicidades Tovarich (1995), de Antonio Eceiz *Señales de fuego (1995), de

Luís Filipe Rocha Luís Filipe Rocha (born 16 November 1947) 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. F ...

*A tres bandas (1997), de Enrico Coletti *99.9 (1997), de

* Doña Bárbara (1998),

Betty Kaplan Betty Kaplan is a Venezuelan-American film and television director born in New York City and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She is Co-Chair of the Directors Guild of America Latino Committee. Kaplan has directed the films ''Doña Bárbara'', '' A ...

*Sinfín (2002), de Álvaro Olavarría y Alberto Ortiza *Besos de gato (2003), de

Rafael Alcázar Rafael Alcázar is a Spanish screenwriter, film director and film producer, producer. Filmography * ''No hagas planes con Marga'' (1988) * ''Laberinto griego, El'' (1993) * ''Corsarios del chip'' (1996) * ''Besos de gato'' (2003) * ''Locuras de D ...

*Historia de Estrella (2003), Manuel Estudillo *Lazos rotos (2007), de Miquel García Borda

Television

*La cometa blanca (1982) *

Barrio Sésamo Barrio Sésamo (Sesame Neighborhood in English) was the Spanish co-production of the popular U.S. children's television series ''Sesame Street'' produced by Televisión Española and Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop) from ...

(1983–1987) *Querido maestro (1997) *

(1997) *

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(2003) (miniseries)

Theater

La casa de Bernarda Alba ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' ( es, La casa de Bernarda Alba) is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. Commentators have often grouped it with '' Blood Wedding'' and ''Yerma'' as a "rural trilogy". Garcia Lorca did not inc ...

(2006)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gabriel, Ruth 1975 births Living people Spanish film actresses Spanish stage actresses Spanish television actresses People from San Fernando, Cádiz 20th-century Spanish actresses 21st-century Spanish actresses