Emma Penella

Known for ActingBorn 1930-03-02Died 2007-08-27 Madrid, Spain

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).Read more

Movies & web series

La cuarta ventana

Scano Boa

Sentencia contra una mujer

¡Che, qué loco!

Doblones de a ocho

Badmen of the West

El guardián del paraíso

No One Could Live Here

El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes

Golden Goddess of Rio Beni

FFG, el último gran conversador

La que se avecina

Goya

Alegre juventud

Tres hombres van a morir

Truhanes de honor

Thesis

The Executioner

Blasco Ibáñez

El amor brujo

Fortunata y Jacinta

Doña Francisquita

De espaldas a la puerta

Fedra, the Devil's Daughter

La patrouille des sables

Aimless boat

Juncal

Red Fish

The Tobacconist of Vallecas

Carta a una mujer

Un ángel tuvo la culpa

The Eyes Leave a Trace

The Adventurer of Seville

The Search

Black Humor

Bulgarian Lovers

Pídele cuentas al rey

Condemned to Hang

Comedians

The War Starts in Cuba

The Shadow Battalion

El amor de los amores

Our Father

The Regent's Wife

La hora incógnita

El crimen de Don Benito

Viento de cólera

Un marido de ida y vuelta