Emma Penella
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).
FFG, el último gran conversador
(Self - Actress (archive footage))
The Executioner
(Carmen, la hija de Amadeo)
Golden Goddess of Rio Beni
(Dinah)
El amor brujo
(Tía Rosario)
Carta a una mujer
(Flora)
Alegre juventud
(Violeta)
Comedians
(Marga)
Condemned to Hang
(Consuelo)
El amor de los amores
Un ángel tuvo la culpa
(Eulalia)
The Eyes Leave a Trace
(Lola)
El guardián del paraíso
(La monjita)
Lola, espejo oscuro
(Lola)
La hora incógnita
(Prostituta)
Red Fish
(Ivón)
Badmen of the West
(Lucy)
The Regent's Wife
(Ana Ozores - La Regenta)
The Shadow Battalion
(Lola)
Fedra, the Devil's Daughter
(Estrella)
Sentencia contra una mujer
Fortunata y Jacinta
(Fortunata)
Our Father
(María)
The Tobacconist of Vallecas
(Doña Justa)
The Search
(Rosa)
El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
(Teresa Panza)
La patrouille des sables
De espaldas a la puerta
(Lola)
Viento de cólera
Black Humor
(Miss Wilma - segment 2 'La Mandrilla - Miss Wilma')
Un marido de ida y vuelta
(Leticia Romero)
Doña Francisquita
(Aurora la Beltrana)
La cuarta ventana
(Dora García)
First Surrender
¡Che, qué loco!
(Esperancita Couceiro)
Pídele cuentas al rey
(Carmen)
El crimen de Don Benito
Scano Boa
(Buba)
Tres hombres van a morir
(Héléna)
Aimless boat
Bulgarian Lovers
(Remedios)
Truhanes de honor
(Luisa)
Doblones de a ocho
(Palmira)
The Adventurer of Seville
(Duquesa de San Tirso)
The One That Is Coming
(Charo de la Vega)
Aquí no hay quien viva
(Concha de la Fuente García)
Blasco Ibáñez
(Emilia Pardo Bazán)
Aquí no hay quien viva
(Concha de la Fuente)
Juncal
(Teresa Campos)
Goya
