Described by many as a Picasso come-to-life, de Palma broke the rules of beauty in 1988 when she starred in Pedro Almodóvar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and became a model and muse for designers like Jean-Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, and Sybilla. Her status as an iconic fashion character was further cemented with her role in Robert Altman’s 1994 satirical fashion film Prêt-à -Porter. Today, she is a theater actress, charity spokesperson for the Ghanian Charity OrphanAid Africa, and the face of luxury ad campaigns.
Born in Palma de Mallorca, she was originally a singer and dancer for the band Peor Imposible before being discovered by filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar at a café in Madrid in 1986. He cast her in roles based on her unique, Picassoesque appearance. She is best known for her roles in Almodóvar films like La ley del deseo (Law of Desire), Kika, Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) and La flor de mi secreto (The Flower of My Secret).
She acts in France and does modeling. She appeared in Robert Altman’s Prêt-à -Porter as Pilar. In 2007, she released a perfume line under her name through the French cosmetics company Etat libre d’Orange. In 2009, she posed nude in an information campaign on breast cancer for the magazine Marie Claire. She currently lives in France with her two sons.
She was selected to be on the jury for the main competition section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Rossy de Palma Biography / Wiki
| Name | Rossy de Palma |
| Also Know | Rosa Elena GarcÃa Echave, 로시 ë“œ 팔마 |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain |
| Date of Birth | 1964-09-16 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 58 |
| Deathday |
Rossy de Palma Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| A Body in the Woods | 1996-11-08 | A hard-hitting police investigation with Rossy de Palma taking the lead as the police officer responsible for solving the murder of a young woman whos… | |
| Graziella | Graziella | 2015-06-03 | A soulful examination of two defeated middle-aged characters who aren’t sure that life holds the possibility of a second act…. |
| La mule | 2000-01-01 | A Colombian woman arrives at a French airport, she acts suspiciously and appears to be concealing something in her locked case. However a search of he… | |
| I Miss You | Rosaura | 2019-07-27 | Following his son Gabriel’s death, Jorge travels from conservative Bolivia to New York City to confront Gabriel’s boyfriend Sebastian. While the t… |
| Milarepa | 2023-01-02 | … | |
| Le vieux juif Blonde | Voyante | … | |
| Peggio di così si muore | Myrna | 1995-04-21 | In this deliberately campy, slightly slapstick European parody of Alfred Hitchcock films from the 1950s, a newlywed couple returns from their honeymoo… |
| Foul Play | Concepcion Alibera | 1998-05-26 | In this French comedy-drama, actor Angelo Bastiani installs satellite dishes when not auditioning for films. After being told he’s not convincing enou… |
| Franchesca Page | 1998-06-28 | The story follows the adventures of Rita Page, an aspiring showgirl in Las Vegas and his daughter Franchesca completely talentless, in their relentles… | |
| Rainbow | 2022-09-18 | A modern tale of a teenager’s coming-of-age journey loosely inspired by the classic novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.  | |
| Second to Nun | Madame Laduree | … | |
| Leave Your Hands on My Hips | Myriam Bardem | 2003-08-03 | Odile is 42 years old actress and single mother. One day her 18 year old daughter decided to leave her and start living with the boyfriend. All of a s… |
| Nag la Bombe | Leïla | 1999-10-30 | Nag, a prostitute, walks the streets. One night, a violent man sends her to the hospital. There she meets Herve, a nurse obsessed with people’s age an… |
| La femme du cosmonaute | Catherine | 1997-12-17 | Anna and her husband Jean-Paul have to face a long and difficult separation since Jean-Paul is a spationaut. Thanks to a video device they can see eac… |
| Run a way | La benemérita | 2012-09-01 | … |
| Toc Toc | Ana MarÃa | 2017-09-01 | Toc Toc follows the adventures and misadventures of a group of patients with OCD dated at the same time…. |
| Madame | Maria | 2017-08-17 | Anne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they… |
| My Brother Chases Dinosaurs | Auntie Rock | 2019-09-05 | As a child, Jack believed the tender lie his parents told him, that Gio was a special being with superpowers, as in a comic book. Now that he is about… |
| A Mermaid in Paris | Rossy | 2020-03-11 | A man rescues a mermaid in Paris and slowly falls in love with her…. |
| Carmen | Masilda | 2022-09-11 | A modern-day reimagining of one of the world’s most celebrated operas…. |
| The House | 2022-11-16 | Emma, a French novelist aged 27, decide to go to Berlin and join a brothel to uncover the prostitution world, the subject of her new book. Such as gon… | |
| The Flower of My Secret | Rosa | 1995-09-22 | Marisa Paredes is Leocadia (“Leo”) Macias, a woman writing “pink†romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across S… |
| Kika | Juana | 1993-10-29 | Kika, a happy-go-lucky, naïve cosmetologist, is called to the mansion of Nicholas Pierce, an American writer, to make-up the corpse of his stepson, R… |
| Do Not Disturb | Maria | 2014-12-31 | Michel, who’s crazy about jazz, has just found a rare album that he dreams of quietly listening to in his living room. But the world seems to have con… |
| The Damned Rib | Margarita | 1999-12-04 | Four women decide to go together to have fun at a men’s strip show. On the trip, the taxi driver pays attention to their conversation where each one t… |
| The Exchange | Dómina | 2017-12-31 | … |
| En tu cabeza | Milagros (Vecina) | 2016-09-16 | … |
| Jean Paul Gaultier: Freak & Chic | Self | 2018-12-19 | Inspired even as a boy by the Folies Bergere, the legendary Paris cabaret venue, couturier Jean-Paul Gaultier always wanted to stage a show there. “Bu… |
| Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! | Camello en Vespa | 1990-01-22 | Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage…. |
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Marisa | 1988-03-25 | Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciousl… |
| Miss Tacuarembo | Patricia Peinado | 2010-07-01 | Miss Tacuarembó is a unique mixture of drama, comedy, musical with touches of parody and nostalgia which for its beautiful narration will attract man… |
| Chicken Park | Necrophilia | 1994-06-09 | Vladimiro travels to the Dominican Republic with his fighting-chicken when it gets stolen. While searching for his lost chicken he discovers Chicken P… |
| Dead Weight | Pauline Reggio | 2002-04-10 | Prison guard Reggio lets Moltes have a weekly lottery ticket in exchange for his suave relationship advice. When Moltes learns that he has a winning l… |
| Les Aristos | La duchesse Maria de Malaga i Benidorm | 2006-09-20 | The Arbac de Neuvilles are one of the oldest families in France. They have inhabited their ancient château for fifty-two generations and are proud of… |
| &Me | mother | 2013-03-13 | Three loners from Sitges, Berlin and Amsterdam try to blend together in Brussels, city of unification…. |
| Stranded | Mercè | 2015-12-31 | The last train travel of the year from Barcelona to Madrid, suddenly stops by a voltage drop in the middle of nowhere during a fierce snowstorm. Becau… |
| Brillantissime | Charline | 2018-01-17 | After getting dumped on Christmas Eve, Angela must rebuild her life surrounded by her rebellious teenager, her tyrannical mother, her hysterical best … |
| Gigola | Dominique | 2010-06-06 | George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. … |
| Parallel Mothers | Elena | 2021-10-08 | Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, middle-aged, unrepentant and happ… |
| Do You Do You Saint-Tropez | Carmen | 2021-07-14 | Every summer, the Billionaire Tranchant and his wife Eliane host the glamorous world of celebrities in their luxurious mansion in the south of France…. |
| Sam’s Enough | Chichi | 1992-04-01 | After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something new, so she heads over to France and becomes the ro… |
| No Pasaran | Inès | 2009-09-02 | … |
| Don Juan, My Dear Ghost | Viuda de Prodini | 1990-08-24 | Seville, November 1, 1990. Tenorio goes out of his grave, as every year. Similarly, Juan Marquina, a great actor, makes the general rehearsal of a mus… |
| I Don’t Know Whether to Slit My Wrists or Leave Them Long | Lola | 2013-08-23 | Julia, Lucas, Aaron, Nora and Lola live in a building in the chaotic Mexico City, . Everything changes when Felix moves to the unoccupied apartment … |
| Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart | Luna (voice) | 2014-02-05 | In Scotland 1874, Jack is born on the coldest day ever. Because of the extreme cold, his heart stops beating. The responsible midwife in Edinburgh fin… |
| ¡Ay, Carmen! | Self – Actress | 2018-10-29 | The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar’s first muse and a brilliant art… |
| À cause des filles…? | Artémis | 2019-01-30 | At a wedding where the husband runs away, everyone has his own story to tell about the trivial misfortune of a person in love with someone that slips … |
| Madonna: Truth or Dare | Self | 1991-05-10 | From the rain of Japan, through threats of arrest for ‘public indecency’ in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this documentary … |
| AquÃ, el que no corre… vuela | 1992-03-25 | Lola, a member of a gang of crooks, is visited by a cousin who comes to work in a multinational…. | |
| Three Many Weddings | Madre de Ruth | 2013-12-05 | Ruth, a young researcher at a college, is invited to the weddings of three of her exes. She enlists the help of her assistant to find a companion for … |
| Double zéro | Le Monocle | 2004-06-16 | Ben and Bill are the two worst, completely useless agents – real losers. But who else would you send on a super-difficult top-secret mission? The Fren… |
| Spy Time | Madre de Katia | 2015-09-04 | Adolfo, a thirty something security guard, is going through a bad patch. Not only his lifetime girlfriend has just to finished with him to be a guy wi… |
| Love of My Loves | Carmina | 2014-09-05 | Two couples get to know what we all dream about: love at first sight. The problem is they meet it with different people to the ones they are engaged w… |
| 20 Centimeters | La FrÃo | 2005-06-10 | Colloquially-told story of a few days in the life of Marieta, who’s saving money for the last operation in her change from man to woman. She works as … |
| Talk of Angels | Elena | 1998-10-30 | This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activis… |
| Tu la conosci Claudia? | Aldo’s Claudia | 2004-12-15 | Meet Claudia: dull Giovanni is married with her, Giacomo is divorced and happy of it (until he meets her), and Aldo… is a taxi driver. At the end, w… |
| People Jet Set 2 | Pilar | 2004-05-19 | John-John is the best party promoter in Ibiza. He’s responsible for the wildest parties ever. A party fixed by John-John is bound to be a success, and… |
| The Blue Collar Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirl of Sex and Politics | 1998-01-01 | During the general elections of 1994, Tunin, a mechanic with a firm belief in communism fears that his party is about to lose, so he journeys to a no… | |
| The Man Who Killed Don Quixote | 2018-05-19 | Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. I… | |
| Nel giardino delle rose | 1990-09-01 | A successful businessman is haunted by the memories of his mother…. | |
| Ready to Wear | Pilar | 1994-12-23 | During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another…. |
| The Loss of Sexual Innocence | Blind Woman | 1999-04-29 | The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life…. |
| Lord, Give Me Patience | MarÃa Ramos | 2017-06-16 | An ultraconservative family father must spend a weekend with his dysfunctional children for the burial of his wife…. |
| Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas | Herself | 2016-09-11 | When looking at Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography, it becomes evident that women are everywhere; in fact, his work revolves around them. His divas are … |
| French Cinema Mon Amour | Self | 2015-07-06 | French Cinema Mon Amour is an ensemble film in which each contributor brings their own voice, their own particular approach, their culture, and their … |
| Mutant Action | Invitada de lujo | 1993-02-03 | Waging war against all things glamorous and beautiful, crippled terrorists Acción Mutante plot a series of attacks on society’s elite, and attempt th… |
| Los RodrÃguez y el más allá | Doctora Pilar | 2019-10-31 | … |
| The Naked Target | Dama 2 | 1992-01-24 | A New York executive is handcuffed to a precious briefcase to which only his Spanish contact holds the key and of which many others are in hot pursuit… |
| Black Is Beltza | Ruth Abramson (voice) | 2018-10-05 | New York City, October 10, 1965. A group of wooden giant figures from Pamplona, representing Basque culture and traditions, parade down the street; bu… |
| El refugio | 2021-11-26 | An actor in low hours and a young interpreter who threatens to displace the former thanks to the tricks of their agent; the owner of the high mountain… | |
| Apache | Sarah Bernardt | 2023-02-22 | 1900. From Montmartre to Belleville, Paris is in the hands of ultra-violent gangs that reign terror on the capital: the Apaches. Ready to do anything … |
| Just a Little Chemistry | Bárbara Sullivan | 2015-07-24 | Fan girl finds herself torn between the attraction for her film idol and her best male friend…. |
| Despite Everything | Inés | 2019-03-16 | Sara, LucÃa, SofÃa and Claudia are sisters, 4 modern women with very different personalities, who come together at their mother’s funeral, after whi… |
| Broken Embraces | Julieta | 2009-03-01 | Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, … |
| Julieta | Marian | 2016-04-08 | The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair a… |
| What It’s All About | Bibliotecà ria | 1995-03-10 | Minimalistic frieze fifteen episodes about human behavior (desire, submission, love, jealousy, wisdom, honesty, sincerity, passion, faith, …) locate… |
| Law of Desire | Locutora tele | 1987-02-07 | Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring hi… |
| Jean Paul Gaultier fait son show | Self | 2018-10-13 | On the occasion of Jean Paul Gaultier’s 40-year career and his show “Fashion Freak Show” at the Folies Bergère, France 2 has given carte blanche to t… |
| Airbag | Carmiña, mujer de Pazos en una fotografÃa | 1997-06-20 | Mommy’s boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside the body of a prosti… |
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