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Belén Rueda
Belén Rueda in Paris in January 2008
Born	María Belén Rueda García-Porrero March 16, 1965 (1965-03-16) (age 44) Madrid, Spain

María Belén Rueda García-Porrero (born 16 March 1965) is a Spanish actress.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 2 Filmography 3 External links

Biography

Early life

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 Àlecia. 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.

Career

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.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2007	The Orphanage	Laura
2007	Savage Grace
2005	Retruc	Elsa
2004	The Sea Inside	Julia

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Belén Rueda

• Belén Rueda at the Internet Movie Database