Cecilia Roth

Biography: Cecilia Roth

An Argentine native who spent her formative years exiled to Spain, Cecilia Roth was a regular in Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's early films and a star in Argentina long before she became an international critics' darling as the title character in Almodóvar's Oscar-winner All About My Mother (1999). Born in Buenos Aires, Roth lived in Spain during Argentina's 1970s-early-'80s repressive military regime. Roth began acting during her years as an expatriate, earning her first major film role in Ivan Zuleta's cult film Arrebato (1979). After playing a bit part in Almodóvar's outrageous, if unpolished, Pepi, Lucy, Bom (1980), Roth starred as the unsubtly named Sexilia in the director's sex farce Labyrinth of Passion (1982). Roth also played small roles in Almodóvar's Dark Habits (1984) and What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984), and co-starred with a young Antonio Banderas in expat Argentine director Rodolfo Kuhn's El Senor Galindez (1984). An established actress, Roth returned to Argentina in the mid-'80s and became a national star of TV, stage, and film. Though she appeared in director Adolfo Aristarain's Argentine-U.S. hriller The Stranger (1987), Roth eschewed an English-language career, instead starring in a range of Argentine films during the 1980s and 1990s. Further revealing the depth of her talent, Roth played Franz Kafka's sister in Los Amores de Kafka (1989); starred in Aristarain's South American version of a Western A Place in the World (1992); and played a judge/investigator in the hit detective drama Cenizas del Paraiso (1997). Roth subsequently won Spain's Best Actress award for her performance in Aristarain's challenging family drama Hache (1997). Reuniting with Almodóvar and Dark Habits cohort Marisa Paredes, Roth gained even more attention for her lead role in the director's multiple award-winning comic drama All About My Mother (1999). As Manuela, the mother of a deceased teen son, Roth's restrained yet palpable grief infused Manuela's strange search for the birth father with emotional resonance, anchoring Almodóvar's story of redefined families and female resilience. After All About My Mother's international success, Roth co-starred with Javier Bardem in the Spanish omantic drama Segunda Piel (2000). ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide less

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Empty Nest (2008)
Cast: Cecilia Roth Daniel Burman Oscar Martinez Arturo Goetz Ron Richter
Tags: Comedy Domestic Comedy
Length: 91min
An empty house gives a woman a new lease on life but leaves her husband with a midlife crisis in this comedy from writer and director Daniel Burman. Leonardo (Oscar Martinez) is a successful playwright in his mid-fifties who has been married to Martha...
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Other Days Will Come (2005)
Cast: Cecilia Roth Jose Luis Alcaine Antonio Resines Eduard Cortes Fernando Guillén
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 104min
A divorced schoolteacher's life begins to unravel as her young daughter watches in horror. Alicia (Cecilia Roth) lives with her daughter Vega (Nadia de Santiago), and just can't seem to get her act together. Not only is she drinking too much, but her...
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Lucía, Lucía (2003)
Cast: Cecilia Roth Andrés Vicente Gómez Antonio Serrano Margarita Isabel Carlos Alvarez-Novoa
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Thriller Comedy
Length: 110min
Filmmaker Antonio Serrano, who made a splash with his first film Sexo, Pudor y Lagrimas, returns to the screen with this hriller from Mexico. Lucia (Cecilia Roth) is a woman whose life is thrown into chaos when her husband suddenly disappears without...
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Second Skin (2000)
Cast: Javier Bardem Cecilia Roth Andrés Vicente Gómez Ariadna Gil Gerardo Vera
Tags: Drama Thriller Melodrama
Length: 106min
Gerardo Vera directs this romantic drama about self-destructive love and sexual confusion. Alberto (Jordi Molla) is a respected aeronautical engineer married to artist Elena (Ariadna Gil) and has a son. Yet Alberto soon finds himself seduced by the...
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Kamchatka (2002)
Cast: Cecilia Roth Héctor Alterio Marcelo Piñeyro Fernanda Mistral Ricardo Darín
Tags: Political Drama Drama Childhood Drama
Length: 104min
Marcelo Piñeyro's emotional drama Kamchatka is set in Argentina just after the 1976 revolution. A lawyer (Ricardo Darín) takes his wife (Cecilia Roth) and children (Matías del Pozo and Milton de la Canal) to the country after the coup, and they...
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All About My Mother (1999)
Cast: Pedro Almodóvar Marisa Paredes Cecilia Roth Penélope Cruz Fernando Fernán Gómez
Tags: Reunion Films Feminist Film Ensemble Film Comedy Drama
Length: 99min
Pedro Almodóvar directed this story of a woman and her circle of friends who find themselves suffering a variety of emotional crises. Manuela (Cecilia Roth) is a single mother who has raised her son, Esteban (Eloy Azorín), to adulthood on her own...
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Deseo (2002)
Cast: Cecilia Roth Norma Aleandro Leonor Watling Andrés Vicente Gómez Gerardo Vera
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Drama
Length: 106min
Madrid in the wake of the Spanish Civil War serves as the setting for this epic period omance, starring Leonor Watling of Talk to Her fame. Watling is cast as Elvira, a young woman still reeling from the execution of her father and the imprisonment...
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Antigua, Vida Mia (2002)
Cast: Hector Olivera Cecilia Roth Ana Belén Juan Leyrado Jorge Marrale
Length: 110min
Directed by Hector Olivera, Antigua, Vida Mia ("Antigua, My Life") explores concepts ranging from the pursuit of contentment among a spiritually bereft middle-class, the role of women in Argentinean society, and spousal abuse. The film begins with the...
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Martin (Hache) (1997)
Cast: Cecilia Roth Federico Luppi Adolfo Aristarain Juan Diego Botto Eusebio Poncela
Tags: Erotic Drama Drama Addiction Drama
Length: 123min
Upon learning that his estranged son in Buenos Aires may have attempted suicide by mixing dog tranquilizers with booze, expatriate Argentine film director Martin immediately leaves Madrid. Upon his arrival in Argentina, he learns that his ex-wife has...
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Una Noche Con Sabrina Love (2001)
Cast: Cecilia Roth Giancarlo Giannini Norma Aleandro Alejandro Agresti Fabian Vena
Tags: Road Movie Coming-of-Age Comedy Drama
Length: 103min
A teenager hits the road for a crash course in the ways of the world in this amiable comedy-drama. Daniel (Tomas Fonzi) is a 17-year-old orphan growing up in a sleepy village in rural Argentina. Daniel feels trapped in his town, has grown tired of...
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