Victoria Abril

1959-

Biography: life and films

Victoria Abril is a Spanish actress and singer whose birth name is Victoria Mérida Rojas. She was born in Madrid, Spain on 4th July 1959.

Her best films as an actor include Jean-Jacques Beineix's La Lune dans le caniveau (1983), Giancarlo Giannini's comedy Ternosecco (1987), Pedro Almodóvar's Kika (1993), Agustín Díaz Yanes's Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto (1995) and Jean-Michel Ribes's Musée haut, musée bas (2008).

Victoria Abril has so far appeared in 80 films.

She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Vicente Aranda (10 films), Pedro Almodóvar (4), Gérard Jugnot (3), Agustín Díaz Yanes (3), Eduardo Campoy (2), Charlotte de Turckheim (2) and Carlos Saura (2).

Her most frequent genres include: drama (41 films), comedy (18), comedy-drama (11), Thriller (11), romance (8), comedy-romance (4), War (3), history (2), crime-thriller (2), Fantasy (2) and Biography (2).

Our average rating for Victoria Abril over all films is: 2.7

Filmography

Key: a = actor

Obsesión (1975) [a]

Robin and Marian (1976) [a]

Storia di arcieri, pugni e occhi neri (1976) [a]

Cambio de sexo (1977) [a]

Doña Perfecta (1977) [a]

El Puente (1977) [a]

Esposa y amante (1977) [a]

La Muchacha de las bragas de oro (1980) [a]

Le Coeur à l'envers (1980) [a]

Mater amatísima (1980) [a]

Mieux vaut être riche et bien portant que fauché et mal foutu (1980) [a]

Comin' at Ya! (1981) [a]

Asesinato en el Comité Central (1982) [a]

Entre paréntesis (1982) [a]

La Casa del paraíso (1982) [a]

La Colmena (1982) [a]

La Guérilléra (1982) [a]

J'ai épousé une ombre (1983) [a]

La Lune dans le caniveau (1983) [a]

Le Bâtard (1983) [a]

L'Addition (1984) [a]

La Noche más hermosa (1984) [a]

Las bicicletas son para el verano (1984) [a]

Le Voyage (1984) [a]

On the Line (1984) [a]

After Darkness (1985) [a]

La Hora bruja (1985) [a]

Padre nuestro (1985) [a]

Rouge-gorge (1985) [a]

Max mon amour (1986) [a]

Nuit d'ivresse (1986) [a]

Tiempo de silencio (1986) [a]

Barrios altos (1987) [a]

El Lute: camina o revienta (1987) [a]

La Ley del deseo (1987) [a]

Ternosecco (1987) [a]

Ada dans la jungle (1988) [a]

Bâton rouge (1988) [a]

El Juego más divertido (1988) [a]

El Placer de matar (1988) [a]

Sans peur et sans reproche (1988) [a]

Si te dicen que caí (1989) [a]

A solas contigo (1990) [a]

Átame! (1990) [a]

Sandino (1990) [a]

Amantes (1991) [a]

Tacones lejanos (1991) [a]

Une époque formidable... (1991) [a]

Demasiado corazón (1992) [a]

Intruso (1993) [a]

Kika (1993) [a]

Casque bleu (1994) [a]

Jimmy Hollywood (1994) [a]

Gazon maudit (1995) [a]

Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto (1995) [a]

Libertarias (1996) [a]

La Femme du cosmonaute (1998) [a]

Entre las piernas (1999) [a]

101 Reykjavík (2000) [a]

Mari del sud (2001) [a]

Sin noticias de Dios (2001) [a]

Kaena: La prophétie (2003) [a]

Cause toujours! (2004) [a]

Escuela de seducción (2004) [a]

Incautos (2004) [a]

The 7th Day (2004) [a]

Les Gens honnêtes vivent en France (2005) [a]

El Camino de los ingleses (2006) [a]

Les Aristos (2006) [a]

Tirante el Blanco (2006) [a]

48 heures par jour (2008) [a]

Leur morale... et la nôtre (2008) [a]

Mejor que nunca (2008) [a]

Musée haut, musée bas (2008) [a]

Óscar. Una pasión surrealista (2008) [a]

Sólo quiero caminar (2008) [a]

Mince alors! (2012) [a]

Joséphine s'arrondit (2016) [a]



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