Emma Penella
Acting • Born 1930-03-02 – Died 2007-08-27
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
49 credits
FFG, el último gran conversador
Movie • 2021
Self - Actress (archive footage)
The Executioner
Movie • 1963
Carmen, la hija de Amadeo
Golden Goddess of Rio Beni
Movie • 1964
Dinah
El amor brujo
Movie • 1986
Tía Rosario
Carta a una mujer
Movie • 1963
Flora
Alegre juventud
Movie • 1963
Violeta
Comedians
Movie • 1954
Marga
Condemned to Hang
Movie • 1953
Consuelo
El amor de los amores
Movie • 1962
Un ángel tuvo la culpa
Movie • 1960
Eulalia
The Eyes Leave a Trace
Movie • 1952
Lola
El guardián del paraíso
Movie • 1955
La monjita
Lola, espejo oscuro
Movie • 1966
Lola
La hora incógnita
Movie • 1963
Red Fish
Movie • 1955
Ivón
Badmen of the West
Movie • 1964
Lucy
The Regent's Wife
Movie • 1974
Ana Ozores - La Regenta
The Shadow Battalion
Movie • 1957
Lola
Fedra, the Devil's Daughter
Movie • 1956
Estrella
Sentencia contra una mujer
Movie • 1960
Fortunata y Jacinta
Movie • 1970
Fortunata
Our Father
Movie • 1985
María
The Tobacconist of Vallecas
Movie • 1987
Doña Justa
The Search
Movie • 1966
Rosa
El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Movie • 1992
Teresa Panza
La patrouille des sables
Movie • 1954
Héléna
De espaldas a la puerta
Movie • 1959
Lola
Viento de cólera
Movie • 1988
Black Humor
Movie • 1965
Miss Wilma - segment 2 'La Mandrilla - Miss Wilma'
Un marido de ida y vuelta
Movie • 1957
Leticia Romero
Doña Francisquita
Movie • 1952
Aurora la Beltrana
La cuarta ventana
Movie • 1963
Dora García
First Surrender
Movie • 1971
¡Che, qué loco!
Movie • 1953
Esperancita Couceiro
Pídele cuentas al rey
Movie • 2000
Carmen
El crimen de Don Benito
Movie • 1991
Scano Boa
Movie • 1961
Buba
Tres hombres van a morir
Movie • 1955
Héléna
Aimless boat
Movie • 1952
Bulgarian Lovers
Movie • 2003
Remedios
Truhanes de honor
Movie • 1952
Luisa
Doblones de a ocho
Movie • 1990
Palmira
The Adventurer of Seville
Movie • 1954
Duquesa de San Tirso
The War Starts in Cuba
Movie • 1957
La que se avecina
TV • 2007
Charo de la Vega
Blasco Ibáñez
TV • 1997
Emilia Pardo Bazán
No One Could Live Here
TV • 2003
Concha de la Fuente
Juncal
TV • 1989
Teresa Campos
Goya
TV • 1985