Ana Belén
Birthday: Born in 1951-05-27 in Madrid, Spain
Deathday: Alive
María del Pilar Cuesta Acosta, better known as Ana Belén, is a Spanish actress and singer.
TV Credits
Maestros de la costura
Character: Invitada
Talent show of sewing, fashion and design, to find the best Spanish amateur dressmaker. Only 12 lucky people, among the more than 10,000 registered casting will fight to make their dream come true....
Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar
Character: Self - Musical Guest
A yearly musical contest organized by the municipality of Viña del Mar, Chile which takes place during the last week of February at the Quinta Vergara Amphitheater since February 21, 1960....
Un cuento perfecto
Character: Madre de Margarita
When Margot flees her own wedding, she is left feeling adrift. Little does she know, it is David and his delightful chaos who can help her find her way....
De pé a pá
Character: Self
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Fortunata y Jacinta
Character: Fortunata
The aristocrat Juan de Santa Cruz meets Fortunata, a girl of humble origins, and a passionate love arises between them; but his mother decides to marry him to her niece Jacinta....
Traición
Character: Pilar del Riego
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Milá Vs Milá
Character: Entrevistada
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Lo de Évole
Character:
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Dúos Increíbles
Character: Concursante
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Petra Delicado
Character: Petra Delicado
Based on the novels of Alicia Giménez Bartlett, it is a police series in which the inspector Petra Delicado, a divorced and independent woman manages to solve complicated criminal plots episode by episode, with the collaboration of sub-inspector Fermín Garzón....
Lo + plus
Character: Self - Guest
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Lo Siguiente
Character: Self - Winner
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Lo Siguiente
Character: Self - Guest
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Operación triunfo
Character: Self - Judge
Reality-show talent contest aimed to find the country's next solo singing sensation, putting a selection of hopefuls through their paces by getting them to sing a variety of cover versions of popular songs, with tutoring from various professionals....
Operación triunfo
Character: Self - Invitada
Reality-show talent contest aimed to find the country's next solo singing sensation, putting a selection of hopefuls through their paces by getting them to sing a variety of cover versions of popular songs, with tutoring from various professionals....
Movie Credits
Official Competition
Character: Cóctel
When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each oth...
FFG, el último gran conversador
Character: Self - Actress / Various Roles (archive footage)
Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. His close friends and relatives reveal another facet in which he stood out above all: that of being an excellent conversationalist, capable of hypnotizing and seducing those who listened to him....
Demons in the Garden
Character: Ana
Juan is the handsome, irresponsible, best-loved second son. When his older brother, who runs the family's black-market business with their steel-willed mother, marries Juan's lover Ana, Juan heads for Madrid to work for Franco. Juan also leaves behind his impoverished cousin, Ángela, pregnant with his son. Jump ten years. Juanito, the lad, has rheumatic fever. The doctor says to pamper the boy. Ángela, Ana, and his grandmother comply. As Juanito recovers, his father returns in desperate need of ...
Turkish Passion
Character: Desideria
A young woman’s passion forms the basis of this erotic Spanish drama adapted from a popular novel by Antonio Gala. The night before Desideria’s marriage, her girl friends give her some valuable advice on sex. The marriage takes place, and while it is generally happy, her husband Ramiro suffers from sexual dysfunction and Desideria is frustrated. The two end up on holiday in Istanbul with two friends. Desideria falls madly in love with the sensual ambiance of the ancient, teeming city. She begins...
The Court of the Pharaoh
Character: Mari Pili / Lota
In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players try to get out of their wretched lives taking advantage of the artistic caprices of the son of a rich man who supports the regime. They try to stage a Pre-war 'zarzuela' (a sort of Spanish operetta), 'La Corte Del Faraón', which ironically, thirty years later, is too obscene for the regime censorship. They finally manage to perform the 'zarzuela' but end up in the...
Cruce de caminos
Character: Self
An account of the life and work of the singer and songwriter Miguel Ríos, pioneer and true icon of Spanish rock music....
Raphael: 50 años después - En directo y al completo
Character: Self
Performed at Las Ventas Spain, In celebration of Raphael's 50th anniversary as a performer, this comprehensive collection offers incredible videos from throughout his career. The vaunted Spanish singer and actor first hit the stage as a toddler, and has since played with the biggest Latin artists such as Juanes, Rocio Jurado, Miguel Bose, and many more. 50 ANOS DESPUES features 18 hits including "A Mia Minera," "Cantares," and "Adoro."...
Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health
Character: Diana
Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them....
Freedomfighters
Character: Pilar
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure....
Morbidness
Character: Alicia
Newlyweds have decided to spend the honeymoon in the middle of a forest and sheltered in a caravan. Relations between the two start to get confused, especially when she begins to obsess over a nearby house and with eyes that seem to spy on her with lust....
Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena
Character: Hortensia
Hortensia is a mature officer of the INEM office. She has been abandoned by her husband so she doesn't believe in love anymore. One day Eduardo Fernandez goes to the employment office because after overcoming a deep depression, he has decided that his life has to get better....
Move Over, Mrs. Markham
Character: Rosa
Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him use his house for a love tryst while Fernando wines and dines Adela. At the same time, Paco's wife, Carmen, will be taking her lover to Rosa's house. From here on the rout begins, as Paco tries to get rid of Silvia, his secretary, and Carmen, he...
The House of Bernarda Alba
Character: Adela
After the death of her husband Bernarda Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house....
The Beehive
Character: Victorita
As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business....
Bilbao Blues
Character: Beatriz Artetxe
Beatriz is an attractive young lawyer who enjoys an enviable position thanks to the influence of his father, a prominent businessman. Lucas, a young guy with a rather shady past, struggling to emerge from the unfavorable situation in which life has placed him. When Lucas is arrested with a stash of cocaine adulterated becomes a client of Beatrice. The pure cocaine has hidden with intent to distribute it only with your partner Uriarte, for it has had to deceive another of his buddies into thinkin...
El buscón
Character: La Bailarina
XVII century Spain. Don Pablo tries to climb position and falls into the hands of students, rogues, whores, fake skilled, executioners, jailers and comedians. Based on "The Buscón called Pablos" Francisco de Quevedo....
The Creature
Character: Cristina
Tender and erotic love story of a respectable bourgeois housewife and a large black Alsatian dog. Shot in 1977, the film employs bestiality as a symbol of Spain's political landscape. It makes references to the massacre of Atocha and to political right wing groups that, after the death of Francisco Franco, tried to maintain the dictator’s political ideals....
Spaniards in Paris
Character: Isabel
Four Spanish women of very different origins and motivations work in Paris as handmaids....
Divine Words
Character: Mari Gaila
A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law....
Banderas, the Tyrant
Character: Lupita
In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally....
Miss Caribe
Character: Alejandra
A woman's father dies in a Central American country and leaves her a bizarre inheritance: a ship which acts as a floating brothel under the appearance of being a restaurant. Alejandra, our heroine, decides to put an end to the ship's dissolute activities and use her inheritance as a school. Customers, cooks, waiters and the girls will meet her idea with considerable resistance....
The Flight of the Dove
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A film team arrives at a more authentic and old square in Madrid to shoot a film. The area is full of children, working families and simple people who see the cinema as something unattainable. From his balcony, Paloma, does not lose detail of the shooting, nor of the movements of the gallant, for which he feels a strong attraction....
El viaje de Julieta
Character: Self
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Antigua vida mía
Character: Josefa Ferrer
An abused wife (Cecilia Roth) seeks information about her dead mother, a freedom fighter buried in Antigua....
Zampo y yo
Character: Ana Belén
Ana Belén, motherless and daughter of a powerful businessman, lives in a luxurious mansion; but she is not happy, until she attends a circus performance, where she meets Zampo, an old clown with whom she becomes close friends....
Aunque la hormona se vista de seda...
Character: Paloma Gil de la Viña
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To the Devil, with Love
Character: Pilar
On an island buffeted by storms, the seamen are confined with no desire to abandon the life by the sea. They spend days and nights drunk in the tavern. The young woman who serves them has one desire: to go far away. This sets the stage for a musical in the open, and will frame a story of love and adventure, reminiscent of the director's film Aoom....
With Good Reason
Character:
A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media....
The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
Character: Self - Actress
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances....
Tormento
Character: Amparo
A rich emigrant returns to Madrid where he meets the beautiful Amparo . The girl, however, lives a secret affair with a priest...
La petición
Character: Teresa
An ambitious young woman from a wealthy family, but unsatisfied with her social position, will not hesitate to use all that is within her reach to achieve her ascent in society....
Vida conyugal sana
Character: Ana
Enrique is a thirty-year-old lawyer who is married to Ana. Apparently he is a normal man who has only one obsession: the commercials. He feels a real passion for the erotic world of the ads either in billboards, trash cans, public transport, magazines or television. The continuous publicity bombardment ends up leading him towards a neurosis that changes his personality....
The Love of Captain Brando
Character: Aurora
During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old republican exile, returns to his home in a small Castilian village and befriends Aurora, a young and attractive teacher....
Emilia... parada y fonda
Character: Emilia
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A flor de piel (C)
Character:
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The Perfect Husband
Character: Natasha
Dostoevsky-inspired drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time seducing other men's wives and dueling. He begins an affair with his friend's wife, but falls in love with her....
Erotic Stories
Character: Carmen (segment "Tiempos rotos")
A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality....
Check to the Queen
Character: Paula
After Paula's suicide, her best friend, Ana, recalls the circumstances that united both women in the past and how they lived a close relationship that could have become more than just a friendship if social conventions had not prevented it....
¡Jo, papá!
Character: Pilar
With the purpose of recalling a youthful adventure, Enrique, a well-placed merchant, decides to travel around Spain in the company of his wife Alicia and his two daughters, Pilar and Carmen....
La oscura historia de la prima Montse
Character: Montse
Paco, a middle-class young man, tells his lover the shady story of his cousin Montse, a social worker....
El gusto es nuestro
Character:
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Ana Belén y Víctor Manuel: mucho más que dos
Character:
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Rosa Rosae
Character:
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The Queen of Spain
Character: Ana
After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to The Girl of Your Dreams, 1998.)...
Somnambulists
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Ana works side by side with her mother Maria Rosa in the fight to save the anti-Franco militants from the death penalty during the process of Burgos. Ana's mother is a former actress and Ana, her mother and a few other actors prepare an act of protest in the theater where an international festival on Strinberg is being held. But there are more things in Ana's life. The mother lives with her uncle, the brother of his father, Norman, an old doctor of devious methods. Helped by Fatima, an old nurse...
Romeo y Julieta
Character: Julieta
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Separación matrimonial
Character: Isabel
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Querido Fotogramas
Character: Self
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 of voices represented by people who make films, those who write them and those who consume them. The documentary pays tribute to the readers of “Fotogramas” helped by the leading figures of Spanish cinema, who will read to the camera the most representative letters received at its offices in the history of the magazine....
Mi Querida Cecilia
Character: Herself
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¡Ay, Carmen!
Character: Self - Actress
The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant artist in her own right....
Dolores
Character: Ana Belén
Based on the life of Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria), president of the PCE. The film is a documentary, prepared over three years with archive material from Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Havana, Yugoslavia and Basque and Spanish film libraries....
País S. A.
Character: Aurora (archive footage)
A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist....
After the Dream
Character: Ángeles
Amós is a sailor and owner of a ship. He is impatient with the arrival of his uncle who returns from the Soviet Union, after having exiled there after the Civil War. They have no time to meet because the old man unexpectedly dies. Amos knows, thanks to the letters his mother received, that his uncle had a treasure. However, this one is not among the objects that were in the old man's room....
La corte de Ana
Character: Herself - Actress / Singer
She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starring children, a child prodigy unlike any other; a girl who, in time, would become a symbol of freedom and a total artist. Actress, singer, friend, lover. This is the story of Ana Belén....
Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado
Character: Self
A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely opportunistic, who brought it to a successful conclusion in the tribunes and offices; on the other hand, the citizens who, in the streets, supported it sincerely or fought it with ferocity....
Stories of Our Cinema
Character: Herself - Actress / Singer
In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country are projected. From that event, the Spanish actor Antonio Resines intends to compile a series of anecdotes to shape the amazing history of Spanish cinema, holding several conversations with prominent figures of the Spanish film industry....
Aute retrato
Character: Herself
A journey through the different creative facets of Luis Eduardo Aute: singer and songwriter, painter, poet, filmmaker. Collaborators and friends tell the life of this total artist and reveal the impact his work has had in the past, has in the present and will have in the future....
Olea… ¡Más alto!
Character: Self - Singer and Actress
An account of the life and work behind the camera of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Olea, whose very personal viewpoint, interested in all kinds of subjects, approached in very different ways, but always with a very characteristic style, has analyzed the social and political life of Spain for more than five decades....
Víctor Manuel: el abuelo Víctor
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Las cartas perdidas
Character: Narradora
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