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]
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]
Tiempo de silencio (1986) [a]
Barrios altos (1987) [a]
El Lute: camina o revienta (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]
Une époque formidable... (1991) [a]
Demasiado corazón (1992) [a]
Intruso (1993) [a]
Kika (1993) [a]
Jimmy Hollywood (1994) [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]
Escuela de seducción (2004) [a]
Incautos (2004) [a]
Les Gens honnêtes vivent en France (2005) [a]
El Camino de los ingleses (2006) [a]
Tirante el Blanco (2006) [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]
Kafka's tortuous trial of love
The very best sci-fi movies
French cinema during the Nazi Occupation
