![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: April 3, 1946 in Madrid, Spain Biography:Artistically adventurous Spanish actress "Marisa Paredes" has worked with a number of renowned international directors during her career, but she is most famous for her work with Spain's flamboyant "Pedro Almodóvar". Madrid native Paredes was studying acting at the city's Dramatic Arts Conservatory when she began her professional career in the 1960s. Making her name as an actress in Spanish TV, stage, and film work during the 1960s and '70s, Paredes began to attract more international attention in the 1980s. After appearing in "Sus Anos Dorados" (1980) and "Fernando Trueba"'s comedy "Opera Prima" (1980), Paredes starred in her first Almodóvar film, the ribald comedy Dark Habits (1984). Among her other 1980s work, Paredes earned the Onda Madrid Prize for her performance as the wife of a Nazi concentration camp doctor in "Tras El Cristal" (1985). Paredes earned more acting laurels as the unbalanced... Full Biography
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