Victoria Abril (born Victoria Mérida Rojas; 4 July 1959) is a Spanish film actress and singer. She is best known to international audiences for her performance in the movie ¡Ãtame! (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!).
Born in Madrid, Abril became widely known in Spain in 1976 when she appeared for two years in the show Un, dos, tres… responda otra vez. Besides working in Spain, she also made films in France, where she resides, Italy, and Iceland. She has been nominated eight times for Goya Awards in the Lead Actress category and has won once. She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival for her role in Amantes. Two years later, she was awarded with the Berlinale Camera at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.
Victoria Abril performing on stage in 2006.
She is also a singer. In 2005, she made her debut with a bossanova-jazz album called PutchEros do Brasil. She also tried to represent Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1979 with “Bang-Bang-Bang”, but Betty Missiego was chosen instead.
Victoria Abril Biography / Wiki
| Name | Victoria Abril |
| Also Know | Victoria Mérida Rojas, ë¹…í† ë¦¬ì•„ 아브릴, ვიქტáƒáƒ ირáƒáƒ‘რილი |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Madrid, Spain |
| Date of Birth | 1959-07-04 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 63 |
| Deathday |
Victoria Abril Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! | Marina Osorio | 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…. |
| French Twist | Loli | 1995-01-18 | After learning of her husband’s infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same… |
| 101 Reykjavik | Lola | 2000-05-31 | Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment check… |
| High Heels | Rebeca | 1991-10-23 | After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca’s life when she comes to perform a concert. Reb… |
| Mejor que Nunca | Isabel Romero | 2009-01-23 | … |
| School of Seduction | Sandra Vega | 2004-09-17 | “Escuela de seducción” is an acceptable comedy which deals, for the umpteenth time, with the war of the sexes using misunderstandings and fake person… |
| Between Your Legs | Miranda | 1999-01-14 | Miranda, a sex addict, works for a radio station and is married to a cop. She signs up for therapy in order to deal with her sex addiction. Also in th… |
| Swindled | Pilar | 2004-07-09 | In a flashback, Ernesto, a young con man, tells us how he got to the edge of a big score: childhood in an orphanage, youthful smash-and-grab burglarie… |
| Nobody Will Speak of Us When We’re Dead | Gloria Duque | 1995-10-05 | Escaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime, Gloria (Victoria Abril), a young woman of lower class, comes back to Madrid… |
| Cause toujours ! | Jacinthe | 2004-07-28 | This way-offbeat comedy from Gallic director Jeanne Labrune concerns two young French women, best friends Léa and Jacinthe. While Jacinthe develops a… |
| Intruso | Luisa | 1993-09-03 | In childhood and youth, the three were “the inseparables.” Luisa married Ãngel, then two years later, she left him to marry Ramiro. After ten years, … |
| Barrios altos | Verónica | 1987-10-02 | Veronica, divorced with a son, begins to organize her life and adapt to the new situation. Her problems are relegated to a second term when Carlos, he… |
| Big is Beautiful | Sophie | 2012-03-27 | A resort for individuals who want to lose weight is helps several women discover friendships, acceptance with body image and hard truths…. |
| Change of Sex | José MarÃa / MarÃa José | 1977-03-13 | José Maria is a seventeen year old boy; his father is a successful restaurant owner in a town some distance from Barcelona, in Spain. The boy is inte… |
| Girl with the Golden Panties | Mariana | 1980-03-28 | Luys Forest is a writer with a political past Falangist, who lives isolated in a coastal town, writing his memoirs (actually rewriting and adapting hi… |
| El juego más divertido | Ada/Sara | 1988-01-22 | Two popular television actors, Ada and Bruno, are filming ” Hotel de Fez “, a popular and popular television series that upsets the lives of its two p… |
| My Father, My Mother, My Brothers and My Sisters | Anne | 1999-06-16 | Young single mother has two sons and a daughter by three different fathers who are completely unaware of having fathered them. Anne’s mother conjures … |
| Alone Together | Gloria | 1990-10-05 | A blind woman is the witness of a murder…. |
| Too Much Heart | Ana y Clara | 1992-09-18 | Two twin sisters fall in love for the same man…. |
| Mater amatÃsima | 1980-09-14 | Clara- an attractive- sophisticated and unmarried woman- and the autistic child who transforms and absorbs her life- astonishingly interpreted by a ve… | |
| Who Is That Splashing in the Mediterranean? | Mercedes | 1980-10-29 | Two half-brothers have to go on a road trip to find their half-sister and receive a huge inheritance…. |
| Baton Rouge | Ana Alonzo | 1988-10-08 | Poor gigolo tries to frame his rich mature mistress, but gets tangled in his own wiles…. |
| Les gens honnêtes vivent en France | Aurore Langlois | 2005-03-02 | … |
| No Trace of Sin | Maria da Luz / Lucilia | 1983-02-11 | A young man from a high-bourgeois family, Henrique receives mysterious phone calls from a woman at the barracks where he is serving in the military, w… |
| Lovers: A True Story | Luisa | 1991-02-23 | Set in ’50s Spain, a young man leaves the army and looks for a job so he and his fiancée can get married. He rents a room from a widow, and shortly b… |
| The Battle of Reefer | Violeta | 1981-11-23 | … |
| Le voyage | Véronique | 1984-09-05 | The emotional interplay between an arguing couple, in love but not happy with their relationship, is meant to be the sustaining force in this crime dr… |
| The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears | Helena | 2012-10-03 | After her son’s tragic death, Helena abducts her employee, Lucian, and travels with him and her husband to scatter her son’s ashes in Macedonia. Meanw… |
| La femme du cosmonaute | Anna | 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… |
| Entre paréntesis | Carmen | 1982-07-21 | … |
| El crimen del capitán Sánchez | MarÃa Luisa Sánchez | 1985-04-19 | Madrid, Spring 1913. During a visit to the casino, a beautiful 20 year-old woman catches the eye of a 50 year-old rich widower. But the gamble he is a… |
| The Shack | 1979-11-16 | Vicente Blasco Ibáñez wrote in 1898 “La barraca” (The Shack), a novel with some cultural significance among spanish literature for reflecting rural … | |
| La casa del paraÃso | Victoria | 1982-05-31 | Victoria, a beautiful woman, breaks into a large house, where strage people live without ever leaving the house. There is an enigmatical man who contr… |
| Bernarda | Josefa | 2018-10-26 | Bernarda is a loose adaptation of the play La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico GarcÃa Lorca . Five women are kidnapped and locked in a strange facto… |
| La mujer lunática | 1990-02-16 | A man falls in love with an unusual woman… | |
| Paprika | 2018-03-28 | … | |
| Kika | Andrea Caracortada | 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… |
| Walking Vengeance | Gloria Duque | 2008-10-31 | Frantic to be free of Felix, her wealthy but drunken and violent drug-lord husband, Ana tricks her fresh-from-prison sister, Aurora, and two other ex-… |
| Don’t Tempt Me | Lola Nevado | 2001-11-30 | Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer…. |
| Leur morale… et la nôtre | Muriel | 2008-08-27 | On peut être un couple de bons Français, toujours amoureux, parents modèles, travailleurs et économes jusqu’à la manie et écouler au noir dans l… |
| Musée haut, musée bas | Clara | 2008-11-19 | Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par… |
| Casque bleu | Alicia | 1994-06-15 | Winegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another woman. By way of atonement, he takes his wife back to… |
| Bicycles Are for the Summer | Manolita | 1984-01-20 | In Madrid, the family of Don Luis, his wife Dolores and their children, Manolita and Luisito, share the daily life of the Civil War with their maid an… |
| Our Tropical Island | Sabina | 2001-10-12 | A businessman is leaving for his family vacation in the South Pacific when he finds out that a rival has emptied his bank account. To save face he and… |
| Freedomfighters | Floren | 1996-04-19 | At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman… |
| If They Tell You I Fell | Menchu / Ramona / Aurora Nin | 1989-09-19 | In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as “aventis” (the film’s original title… |
| Tiempo de silencio | Dorita | 1986-03-13 | Pedro MartÃn, a young and ambitious doctor, is studying the effect of cancerous cells on mice, but he has run out of mice in his laboratory, since th… |
| Murder in the Central Committee | Carmela | 1982-08-16 | The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the assas… |
| Lute: Forge On or Die | Chelo | 1987-09-19 | In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis – a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more … |
| Oscar. The color of destiny | 2008-02-22 | “Óscar. The Color of Destiny” is a revealing portrayal of a forgotten icon of French Surrealism: Spanish painter Óscar DomÃnguez, contemporary of P… | |
| Ternosecco | Brigida | 1987-01-16 | … |
| The Most Beautiful Night | Elena | 1984-09-24 | Federico, an executive of national television, begins to suspect that his wife Elena, an actress who retired prematurely after marriage, is cheating h… |
| Caperucita y Roja | Caperucita | 1977-03-07 | … |
| Doña Perfecta | Rosario | 1977-10-24 | … |
| Ada in the Jungle | Carmen | 1988-09-28 | A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago…. |
| Et après? | 2002-10-09 | Mustapha, a young Moroccan living on small shots, meets a couple of Spanish tourists. The latter dragged him into a heavy traffic of hashish. Forced t… | |
| Neon Flesh | Pura | 2005-11-24 | Pura, Ricky’s mother , just left jail. A simple fact that changes the whole existence of Ricky. In a desperate try to show a regular life, he kicks ou… |
| Wishlist | Carmen | 2020-07-03 | Eva and Carmen are two women who meet in the worst place: the doctor’s office, waiting to hear the results of their cancer screenings. So Carmen has… |
| On refait les grands duos d’humour | 2018-05-29 | … | |
| La loi de Gloria | Maître Gloria Mendoza | 2017-09-12 | … |
| The Grand Restaurant III | 2021-02-03 | He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after work… | |
| The House of Ulloa | 1985-12-09 | Set in a crumbling Spanish mansion, this gloriously comic and gothic story follows the fortunes of an innocent young priest as he enters a world of mo… | |
| Jimmy Hollywood | Lorraine de la Pena | 1994-03-30 | Jimmy Alto is an actor wannabe who stumbles into the role of a lifetime. He becomes a vigilante crime-fighter, aided by his sidekick William, who has … |
| 48 Hours a Day | Anna | 2008-06-04 | A young professional woman takes radical action to force her husband’s help with the household chores…. |
| The Moon in the Gutter | Bella – la maîtresse possessive de Gérard | 1983-05-18 | A dockworker seeking revenge on the killer of his sister finds himself the object of desire for two women…. |
| Une époque formidable… | Juliette Berthier | 1991-06-19 | Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d’une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d’être licencié. Comme il n’ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa com… |
| Summer Rain | Srta. del Casco Cartaginés | 2006-11-23 | A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s…. |
| Comin’ at Ya! | Abilene | 1981-07-24 | A young couple’s wedding ceremony is brutally interrupted when a pair of outlaw brothers arrive and massacre almost everyone in sight. They kidnap the… |
| Esposa y amante | Marisa | 1977-08-04 | Luisa’s daughter attempted suicide. While attending the clinic and, contemplating the state of his daughter, Luisa recalls the early happy years of he… |
| The Beehive | Julita | 1982-10-11 | As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, “La Colmena” is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just… |
| Downstream | Engracia | 1984-11-07 | A Border Patrol agent is determined to catch his old nemesis, an American criminal who successfully smuggles illegal aliens across the border from Mex… |
| L’addition | Patty | 1984-04-03 | For having wanted to defend a young girl accused of theft, a comedian finds himself in prison. Embarked in spite of himself in an escape attempt, he i… |
| Our Father | Cardenala | 1985-04-21 | The story of a Spanish Cardinal who is told he only has one more year to live. He decides to return to his hometown, after an absence of 30 years, to … |
| After Darkness | Pascale | 1985-02-01 | To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to b… |
| El placer de matar | 1988-09-06 | Two assassins: Luis, young and impulsive and André, married teacher. Fate lets them cross their lines, evident in the same victim. From the beginning… | |
| The Witching Hour | Saga | 1985-11-04 | When a group of gangsters sets out to retrieve a stolen gem, they run into some of the fiercest and most bloodthirsty minions hell has to throw at the… |
| La guérilléra | Bárbara Périsson | 1982-12-09 | … |
| Born to Win | Victoria | 2016-05-06 | Encarna, a thirtysomething girl of Móstoles (Madrid) is trapped in a life without changes, at the side of her lifelong boyfriend and with a job absen… |
| Storia di arcieri, pugni e occhi neri | Lady Anne Birdsley | 1976-04-15 | Robin Hood fights the evil Sheriff of Nothingham. Friar Tuck brings his friend Moi Kato, a Kung Fu master. Medival movie meets Italo Eastern…. |
| I Married a Shadow | Fifo | 1983-02-16 | After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident…. |
| The 7th Day | Luciana Fuentes | 2004-04-23 | Isabel Jimenez is a teenager witnessing a horrible feud between her own family and the Fuentes family, a fued involving broken hearts, property disput… |
| Les Aristos | La duchesse Pilar 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… |
| Rouge-gorge | Marguerite | 1985-02-06 | After graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down with her rich father Louis in his luxurious apartment…. |
| Nuit d’ivresse | La compagne de Jugnot | 1986-09-23 | Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée. He meets up … |
| Foul Play | Lolita – hermana de Pepi | 1977-03-11 | A 1977 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem that won the Golden Prize the 10th Moscow International Film Festival…. |
| Max My Love | Maria | 1986-10-22 | The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover…. |
| Obsesión | Angelines | 1975-05-13 | … |
| Sans peur et sans reproche | Jeanne | 1988-12-14 | Without fear and beyond reproach: the life of the brave knight de Bayard reviewed and corrected with humorous sauce…. |
| Hécuba: un sueño de pasión | Herself | 2006-10-27 | What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profession. Thirty-six Spanish actors reflect on their w… |
| Kaena: The Prophecy | Queen of the Selenites (french voice) | 2003-01-02 | Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena, a rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl will defy the High Priest and her people’s ancestral beliefs to take … |
| The Great Restaurant | Une cliente du restaurant | 2010-02-20 | … |
| The Maidens’ Conspiracy | The Peaceful Widow | 2006-04-07 | Constantinople, 1401. The emperor of Byzantium asks the famous knight Tirant lo Blanc to free the city from the siege of the Turks. After his victory,… |
| Le CÅ“ur à l’envers | The hostess | 1980-09-09 | … |
| Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous | la mère de Gilles | 2016-02-10 | At last, Josephine has found her perfect non-smoker-cat-loving-amazing-cook-perfect-man-soulmate. They’ve been in love for two years and everything … |
| Josephine | la mère de Gilles | 2013-06-19 | Josephine doesn’t like her job and keeps on having relationships without a future. Her sister and parents keep pushing her to find a good husband. To … |
| 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 … |
| Robin and Marian | Queen Isabella | 1976-03-11 | Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time…. |
| Law of Desire | Girl with Juan (uncredited) | 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… |
| El hombre que supo amar | Amelia | 1976-09-19 | … |
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