- Belén Rueda
Infobox actor
name = Belén Rueda
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caption = Belén Rueda inParis in January 2008
birthname = María Belén Rueda García-Porrero
birthdate = birth date and age|1965|3|16
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goyaawards = Best New Actress
2005 "The Sea Inside "
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tonyawards =María Belén Rueda García-Porrero (born
16 March 1965 ) is a Spanishactress .Biography
Early life
Rueda was born in
Madrid . Her father was a civil engineer and her mother was aballet 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 toMadrid to studyarchitecture , 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
External links
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