Emma Suárez

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Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Emma Suárez Bodelón (born 25 June 1964) is a Spanish actress. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including three Goya Awards.

After her debut as a child actress in Memoirs of Leticia Valle in 1979, she developed a professional acting career on screen and stage, landing her first adult film lead role in The White Dove. She acquired a great deal of recognition and prestige in 1990s Spanish cinema, starring in films such as Cows (1992), The Red Squirrel (1993), Earth (1996), and The Dog in the Manger (1996),[1] for which she won her first Goya Award for Best Actress.

She continued her career in the 2000s and the 2010s in Hours of Light (2004), Under the Stars (2007), The Mosquito Net (2010), Julieta (2016), and The Next Skin (2016), winning a doublet of Goya Awards in 2017 for her work in the last two films. She has since appeared in films such as April's Daughter (2017), Josephine (2021), and The Rite of Spring and television series such as La zona, Néboa, and Intimacy.

Early life and career beginnings

Emma Suárez Bodelón was born on 25 June 1964 in Madrid.[2][3] Raised in a family with no significant connection to acting, Suárez attended her first casting at age 14 after her father saw a casting ad for the film in a newspaper and encouraged her to apply,[4][2] making her debut performance in Memoirs of Leticia Valle (1979), in which she portrayed the title character.[5][6]

From age 15 to 25, she gained experience on stage, performing in plays such as El cementerio de los pájaros, Bajarse al moro and La chunga.[7] Early film roles include performances in Double Feature (1984) and Dear Nanny (1986).[8]

Her participation in the music video for the Joaquín Sabina song "Así estoy sin ti" gained her further notoriety.[9] She starred in Isabel Coixet's Barcelona-set directorial debut Too Old to Die Young (1989), portraying Evax.[10]Template:Sfn Also in the same year, she starred along with Antonio Banderas and Paco Rabal in The White Dove,[4] and appeared in Imanol Uribe's withcraft-themed fantaterror oddity La luna negra.[11] While Too Old to Die Young was largely understood as a commercial failure and was bashed by many critics, Suárez collected the Sant Jordi Award for Best Spanish Actress in May 1990.[12] In 1990, she starred opposite to Banderas in incest-themed drama Against the Wind.[13]

Breakthrough in Medem's trilogy and major roles (1992–1999)

Suárez's career experienced a breakthrough with her performances in the trilogy of Basque art films directed by early Julio Medem: Cows (1992), The Red Squirrel (1993), and Earth (1996).[14][15] In Cows, she shared screentime for the first time with Carmelo Gómez,[16] whom with she formed an iconic screen duo in Spanish cinema.[17] In The Red Squirrel, described by Medem as a "parable against machismo", she played a young woman rendered amnesic in a motorcycle accident who is then inserted into a fictitious relationship underpinned by deception and male domination.[18] Her performance in the film landed her first Goya Award nomination.[19] Following the distribution of the film, she turned down an offer by Steven Spielberg to play the female lead of The Mask of Zorro.[20] For her part in Earth, she played an "introverted and self-disciplined" woman.Template:Sfn

In 1993, she also appeared in the European co-production The Milky Way, decried by David Stratton as a "tasteless and painfully unfunny film, a Euro-pudding with no distinguishing features".[21] Subsequent film roles include her portrayal of flight stewardess Rita in Rosa Vergés' Barcelona-set romantic comedy Souvenir, which critic Template:Ill deemed to be "something of a weak link" for the film, as "her lack of establishing scenes and shortage of screen time" deprived the film of an adequate romantic target to comic anchor Futoshi Kasagawa.[22]

Suárez went on to star in The Dog in the Manger (1996) directed by Pilar Miró based on the 1618 play of the same name. It was required for Suárez to declaim her entire performance in verse, for which she trained with Alicia Hermida.[9] David Rooney positively compared the fun and "rewarding chemistry" in the film between Suárez and Gómez to their screen appearances in the "dour" thriller Your Name Poisons My Dreams (1996), also directed by Miró.[23] For her work in The Dog in the Manger portraying Diana, Countess of Belfor, Suárez won her first Goya Award for Best Leading Actress.[24]

In 1998, she portrayed a seasoned guerrilla fighter in internationally co-produced Colombia-set comedy Time Out.[25] In 1999, she starred as the idealistic anarchist Delfina in the big-budget Euro epic The City of Marvels, a film adaptation of the novel by Eduardo Mendoza directed by Mario Camus,[26] and as a straight woman falling for a gay man in romantic comedy-drama I Will Survive.[27] Originally devised by Medem to feature in Sex and Lucia, she found herself temporarily estranged from the filmmaker following several delays in the project and dropped out from it, while Najwa Nimri got in.Template:Sfn

Later roles

File:Emma Suárez.jpg
Emma Suárez (left) with fellow actress Template:Ill at the San Sebastián International Film Festival (c. 2005).

She starred as a cabaret performer in the 2001 film Dama de Porto Pim, set in the Azores against the backdrop of World War II.[28] For her performance as a "flighty" single mother dealing with her own demons in Under the Stars (2007), Suárez obtained another Goya Award nomination.[29][30] Likewise, she starred opposite Bárbara Lennie as a bounty hunter and femme fatale in the Mexican noir film Todos los días son tuyos (2007) about the detention of alleged ETA members.[31][32]

In 2010, Suárez featured in The Mosquito Net, a film about a Catalan dysfunctional family that was presented at the Seminci.[33] In the fiction, she portrayed an illustrator corroded by pain at the verge of suicide, with Suárez describing her character back as one of the most complex and hard in her career up to that date.[33] She obtained Goya and Gaudí Award nominations, as well as a Forqué Award for Best Actress ex aequo with Nora Navas,[34] among other accolades.

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Suárez (waving right hand) attending the Cannes presentation of Julieta along with Michelle Jenner, Daniel Grao, Adriana Ugarte, Pedro Almodóvar, and Inma Cuesta in May 2016.

In Pedro Almodóvar's Julieta, Suárez played the titular role along with Adriana Ugarte. The film entered competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and won Suárez her second Goya Award for Best Leading Actress for playing a 55-year-old teacher thinking about how to explain her missing daughter the secrets she has withheld for over thirty years.[35] At the same ceremony, she was also awarded the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Isa Campo and Isaki Lacuesta's The Next Skin.[35]

In 2017, she starred in Michel Franco's April's Daughters, another Cannes entry, portraying a cougar.[36] Allan Hunter of ScreenDaily assessed that Suárez made her character in the film "entirely plausible", writing that she [April] "is all the more chilling for being so matter-of-fact about her actions".[37]

Suárez played a beleaguered woman desperate for gathering €35,000 in less than 24 hours in heist thriller 70 Big Ones (2018).[38]

Suárez's appearance in The Influence (2019) portraying an evil and disgusting matriarch projecting pain onto her daughters marked her return to the horror genre after La luna negra.[39][40] She starred as a civil servant diagnosed with cancer who rethinks her life during a trip to Greece in the Spanish-Greek co-production Window to the Sea, premiering at the 2019 San Sebastián International Film Festival.[41]

Her television credits in the 2010s include La zona, for which she earned a Feroz Award for Best Actress in a Series.[42] She starred as UCO agent Mónica Ortiz in the Galicia-set mystery thriller miniseries Néboa,[43] which aired in 2020 on La 1. In December 2020, she was bestowed the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts by the Spanish Council of Ministers.[44]

She starred alongside Roberto Álamo and Miguel Bernardeau in the drama film Josephine (2021), a magical realism tale about a mother to an inmate entering a relationship with a prison guard that landed Suárez another nomination for the Goya Award for Best Leading Actress.[45][19] Likewise, her supporting role as an unprejudiced mother to a young man with cerebral palsy in search of sexual assistance in The Rite of Spring (2022) earned her a nomination for the Feroz Award for Best Supporting Actress.[46][47]

In Someone Who Takes Care of Me (2023), she starred alongside Magüi Mira and Aura Garrido in the female-led generational film portraying a HIV-positive woman keeping her condition from her daughter.[48] Also in 2023, she portrayed a misandric queen stranded on an island with her daughters and a misogynistic logger and his sons in fantasy comedy The Tenderness.[49]

She starred again in a maternal role opposite to Natalia de Molina as a recovering alcoholic in Dismantling an Elephant (2024).[50]

In 2025, she debuted at the Teatro de la Abadía in the play El cuarto de atrás, portraying Carmen Martín Gaite.[51] She also played a spiteful telenovela-like character in the thriller television series The Gardener.[52]

Selected filmography

Key
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Film

Year Title Role Notes <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Ref.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
1979 Memorias de Leticia Valle (Memoirs of Leticia Valle) Leticia Valle Feature film debut [6]
1984
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Sesión continua (Double Feature) [53]
Template:Ill
[54]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
1986 Tata mía (Dear Nanny) [53]
1989 Template:Ill (Too Old to Die Young) Evax [55]
Template:Ill (The White Dove) Rocío Template:Sfn
Template:Ill Lola Template:Sfn
1990 Contra el viento (Against the Wind) Ana [56]
A solas contigo (Alone Together) hermana de Gloria [57]
1992
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Vacas Cristina [58]
Orquesta Club Virginia (Club Virginia Orchestra) María Template:Sfn
1993 La ardilla roja (The Red Squirrel) Lisa [59]
1994 Template:Ill Alteria Template:Sfn
Souvenir Rita Template:Sfn
1995 Una casa en las afueras (A House on the Outskirts) Yolanda Template:Sfn
1996
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Tu nombre envenena mis sueños (Your Name Poisons My Dreams) Julia Buendía [60]
El perro del hortelano (The Dog in the Manger) Diana, condesa de Belflor [61]
Tierra (Earth) Ángela [62]
1998
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Golpe de estadio (Time Out) María
[63]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
1999 La ciudad de los prodigios (The City of Marvels) Delfina Template:Sfn
Sobreviviré (I Will Survive) Marga [64]
2000 Besos para todos (Kisses for Everyone) Vicky [65]
2001
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Visionarios (Visionaries) Carmen Molina [66]
Template:Ill Lucía
[67]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
2002 El caballero Don Quijote (Don Quixote, Knight Errant) Duquesa [68]
2003 Sansa
2004 Horas de luz (Hours of Light) Mari Mar [69]
2007
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Bajo las estrellas (Under the Stars) Nines [70]
Template:Ill La Rubia
[31]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
2008
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Ill Blanca
[71]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
2010 Herois (Forever Young) Gloria [72]
La mosquitera (The Mosquito Net) Alicia [73]
2011 ¿Para qué sirve un oso? Natalia [74]
2012
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Ill Valeria
[75]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
2014
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".		 Murieron por encima de sus posibilidades (Dying Beyond Their Means) Ana
[76]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
2015
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Ill
[77]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
2016
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Julieta <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Julieta ArcosScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". [78][79]
Las furias (The Furies) Ana [80]
La propera pell (The Next Skin) Ana [81]
Falling Alma
[82]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
2017 Las hijas de Abril (April's Daughter) Abril [83]
2018 70 binladens (70 Big Ones) Raquel [84]
2019
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Ill (Window to the Sea) María
[41]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
La influencia (The Influence) Victoria [85]
2020 Invisibles (The Invisible) Elsa [86]
2021 Josefina (Josephine) Berta [87]
2022 La consagración de la primavera (The Rite of Spring) Isabel [88]
2023 Alguien que cuide de mí (Someone Who Takes Care of Me) Cecilia [89]
La ternura (The Tenderness) Reina Esmeralda [90]
2024
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".		 Desmontando un elefante (Dismantling an Elephant) Marga [91]
Template:TableTBD
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Pending film
[92]
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Template:Pending film
[93]
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Template:Pending film
[94]
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[95]
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Template:Pending film
[96]
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Television

Year Title Role Notes <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Ref.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
1997 Template:Ill Elena [97]
2017 La zona Marta Carcedo [98]
2019 Criminal: Spain María de los Ángeles Toranzo Puig [99]
2020
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Néboa Mónica Ortiz
[43]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
2022 Intimidad (Intimacy) Miren [100]
2024
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".		 Reina Roja (Red Queen) Laura Trueba
[101]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
2025
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".		 El jardinero (The Gardener) Sabela Costeira
[102]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Accolades

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Suárez holding her Alice Guy film award at the closing gala of the 2023 CiBRA Festival.
Year Award Category Work Result <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Ref.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
1994
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actress The Red Squirrel Nominated [103]
1997
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actress The Dog in the Manger Won [104]
2008
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actress Under the Stars Nominated [105]
2010
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actress The Mosquito Net Won [106]
2011
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actress Won
[34]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actress Nominated
[107][108]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actress Nominated [109]
2016
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Script error: No such module "sort". Best European Actress Julieta <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />NominatedScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". [110][111]
2017
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actress Won [112]
Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actress Nominated [113]
Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actress The Next Skin Won [114]
Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actress Julieta Won [115]
Best Supporting Actress The Next Skin Won [116]
Script error: No such module "sort". Best Film Actress in a Leading Role Julieta Nominated
[117][118]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Best Film Actress in a Minor Role The Furies Nominated
Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actress Julieta Nominated [119][120]
2018
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Script error: No such module "sort". Best Supporting Actress in a Series La zona Won [121]
Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actress April's Daughter Nominated [122][123]
2022
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actress Josephine Nominated
[124]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
2023
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Script error: No such module "sort". Best Supporting Actress in a Film The Rite of Spring Nominated
[47]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "sort". Best Film Actress in a Minor Role Nominated
[125][126]
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

References

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