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Loles León is a Actor Espagnol born on 1 august 1950 at Barcelona (Espagne)

Loles León

Loles León
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Nationality Espagne
Birth 1 august 1950 (73 years) at Barcelona (Espagne)

María Dolores "Loles" León Rodríguez (born 1 August 1950) is a Spanish actress.

She went to Madrid to start a career as an actress. She met Pedro Almodóvar during La Movida Madrileña. He offered her the roles she played in Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1987) and ¡Átame! (1989). Later, she became the fetish actress of directors like Vicente Aranda for El Amante Bilingüe (1993) and Libertarias (1996). In 1997, she had her first leading role in Amor de hombre.

In 2003, she became very popular thanks to her role of Paloma in Aquí no hay quien viva, where she had economic problems with the production.

She has been related to liberal movements and she has a son called Bertoldo in honour of Bertolt Brecht.

Biography

Elle part vivre à Madrid pour commencer une carrière d'actrice, elle y rencontre Pedro Almodóvar à l'époque de la movida. Almodovar lui offre deux rôles dans les films Femmes au bord de la crise de nerfs (1987) et ¡Átame! (1989). Loles León tourne ensuite avec le réalisateur Vicente Aranda pour El amante bilingüe (1993) et Libertarias (1996). En 1997, elle tient le premier rôle dans le film Amor de hombre.

En 2003, elle devient très populaire grâce à son rôle de Paloma dans Aquí no hay quien viva, qu'elle quitte, s'estimant trop peu payée, à la suite de démêlés avec la production.

Elle est liée à des mouvements libéraux, et son fils s'appelle Bertoldo en honneur à Bertolt Brecht.

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Filmography of Loles León (16 films)

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Actress

The Queen of Spain, 2h8
Directed by Fernando Trueba
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical
Actors Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Neus Asensi, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Javier Cámara
Roles Trini Morenos
Rating53% 2.651552.651552.651552.651552.65155
Dans les années 1950, en plein franquisme, la superstar internationale Macarena Granada retourne en Espagne, son pays natal, pour incarner Isabelle la Catholique dans un film biographique à grand budget. Quand il apprend son retour, Blas Fontiveros, un réalisateur qui l'a fait tourner dans une comédie musicale en 1938, retourne également à Madrid pour la revoir. Mais son arrivée déclenche une série d'événements inattendus qui perturbent le tournage du biopic surveillé par les hommes de Francisco Franco...
Brain Drain, 1h49
Origin Espagne
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Mario Casas, Amaia Salamanca, Álex Angulo, José Luis Gil, Antonio Resines, Blanca Suárez
Roles Rita
Rating47% 2.3734652.3734652.3734652.3734652.373465
The film begins with an 18 years old' Emilio (Mario Casas) who tells his amorous misadventures with Natalia (Amaia Salamanca) due to all his physical problems (orthodoncy, orthosis, etc.) When he is 18 he finally gets rid of all his dental appareils and has the chance to confess to Natalia his love. But when she gets a student grant to attend Oxford University (England), all his friends try to help him by going to Oxford too with fake grants.
7 Virgins
7 Virgins (2005)
, 1h25
Directed by Alberto Rodríguez
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama
Actors Juan José Ballesta, Loles León, Ana Wagener
Roles Herself
Rating62% 3.1446053.1446053.1446053.1446053.144605
L'été dans un quartier ouvrier et marginal d'une ville du Sud. Tano, un adolescent qui purge une peine dans un centre de redressement, reçoit un permis spécial de 48 heures pour assister aux noces de son frère Santacana. Pendant la durée de son permis, Tano retrouve son meilleur ami Richi, avec la ferme intention de vivre ces heures en s'amusant et faire tout ce qui lui est interdit dans le centre : il se saoule, se drogue, vole, aime, et surtout il revient à la vie. Il se sent libre avec toute la force et l'insolence de l'adolescence. Mais à mesure que se déroule son séjour en dehors du centre, Tano assiste aussi à l'effondrement de tous ses repères : le quartier qui a changé, la famille, l'amour et l'amitié. Au-delà d'un permis de 48 heures, la liberté de Tano devient un voyage imposé vers la maturité.
El Cid: The Legend, 1h30
Origin Espagne
Genres Biography, Adventure, Historical, Animation
Actors Sancho Gracia, Loles León, Natalia Verbeke, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez
Roles Urraca de Zamora (voz)
Rating55% 2.7638552.7638552.7638552.7638552.763855
Rodrigo's life as a child was a noble and happy one, he entered school at a young age. Often he went on adventures with his best friend Sancho and often visited his beloved one Jimena, the daughter of the count of Gormaz. His happiness did not last forever, after the death of the king Fernando, Rodrigo is seen wrapped in a world of plots and conspiracies that to will put an end to the life of Sancho and the consequent coronation of the infant Alfonso. All of a sudden, Rodrigo loses all that he has acquired, his best friend and the love of its beloved one, and is unjustly exiled to Castile without honor.
Talk to Her, 1h52
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Pregnancy films, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Sports films, Bullfighting films, Rape in fiction, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin, Rosario Flores, Mariola Fuentes
Rating78% 3.94823.94823.94823.94823.9482
The story unfolds in flashbacks, giving details of two separate relationships that become intertwined with each other.
Clams and Mussels
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Leticia Brédice, Jorge Sanz, Antonio Gasalla, Loles León, Silke
Roles Socorro
Rating49% 2.4560252.4560252.4560252.4560252.456025
Paula has money and convinces Rolondo to accompany her to play poker. Over time Rolondo falls in love with her, but as it turns out, Paula is a lesbian. Rolondo lives in the carnivals of Tenerife in the Pub Morocco (a gay bar) where Fredy performs (intimate friend of Paula). The atmosphere of absolute freedom and sensuality that surrounds him little by little opens mind Rolondo's mind.
The Damned Rib, 1h32
Directed by Juan José Jusid, Alfredo Mayo
Origin Argentine
Genres Comedy
Actors Susana Giménez, Betiana Blum, Rossy de Palma, Loles León, Rodolfo Ranni, Guillermo Francella
Roles Lila
Rating42% 2.144892.144892.144892.144892.14489
Lila (León) (an astrologer), Margarita (de Palma) (a literature teacher), Rosa (Blum) (an erotic-line telephonist) and Azucena (Giménez) (faithful wife recently divorced) -note that all of the women have names which are also the same ones of different type of flowers- live in the same apartment building. One night, they decide to go together to have fun in a show of male striptease. Juan (Luis Brandoni), the taxi driver who brings them to the club, pays attention to the conversation of the women who from one to one counts each other their ideal of a man. Since then, Juan characterized as the ideal of the individual man of the women, is dedicated to conquer one to one under different personalities. The trap is soon discovered.
The Girl of Your Dreams, 2h1
Directed by Fernando Trueba
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz, Rosa Maria Sardà, Santiago Segura, Loles León
Roles Trini Morenos
Rating66% 3.3482153.3482153.3482153.3482153.348215
Une troupe d'acteurs espagnols vient en Allemagne pour un tournage organisé dans le cadre d'une collaboration entre franquistes et nazis. Mais le Dr Goebbels tombe amoureux de l'actrice principale, ce qui va changer les conditions du tournage.
The Love of a Man, 1h28
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Loles León
Roles Esperanza
Rating62% 3.13533.13533.13533.13533.1353
Ramón is a sexually active gay man with men coming and going from his bedroom. His best friend Esperanza is a single woman who can't seem to meet or like any men unless they are gay. Some would call Esperanza a fag hag, but she simply has great taste in men, she likes them gay! They go out together to the bars and Ramon always brings a man home while Esperanza goes home to an empty bed. She doesn't mind because she knows that she has Ramón's heart. That is until Ramón meets her fellow teacher, Roberto. Their relationship endangers the precious bond these two have formed.
Freedomfighters, 2h2
Directed by Vicente Aranda
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about anarchism, Politique, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about anarchism, Political films
Actors Ana Belén, Victoria Abril, Ariadna Gil, Miguel Bosé, Jorge Sanz, José Sancho or Pepe Sancho
Roles Charo
Rating68% 3.4413053.4413053.4413053.4413053.441305
The movie is set in 1936 in Barcelona in the midst of the Spanish Revolution and Spanish Civil War. Militia women Pilar (Ana Belen) and Floren (Victoria Abril) are joined by former prostitute Charo (Loles Leon) and former nun Maria (Ariadna Gil). The film opens with scenes of working class militants demolishing and burning religious icons, as they shout "down with Capitalism!" and "long live the libertarian revolution!"
Turkish Passion, 1h53
Directed by Vicente Aranda
Genres Drama, Erotic
Actors Ana Belén, Georges Corraface, Silvia Munt, Loles León, Sílvia Munt, Laura Mañá
Roles Paulina
Rating53% 2.6586352.6586352.6586352.6586352.658635
Desideria Oliván, a well to do woman from Ávila, Spain, is getting married to Ramiro, a handsome young man from a solid background and promising future. The couple settle into a placid comfortable life. Ramiro is an attentive but not very passionate husband and after five years of marriage, they begin to worry that they still do not have children.
The Bilingual Lover, 1h53
Directed by Vicente Aranda
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Imanol Arias, Ornella Muti, Javier Bardem, Loles León, Maribel Verdú, Jordi Dauder
Roles Vicenta
Rating50% 2.508762.508762.508762.508762.50876
Juan Marés (an anagram of the author's name) is a Catalan man from a humble background, the son of a frustrated zarzuela seamstress and an illusionist known as Fu-Ching, the magician. He grew up in Barcelona during the 1950s, dreaming of leaving his poverty behind. In December 1970, he meets his future wife. He was in a photograph exhibit, when just coincidence involved him with a group who was organizing a hunger strike for four days in protest of the Burgos trial verdict. There, he meets Norma Valenti, the only daughter of a wealthy family of traditional and conservative Catalan background. In spite of big economical, social and cultural differences between them, Juan and Norma get married.
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, 1h51
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Erotic, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Crime, Politic, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, BDSM in films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Francisco Rabal, Loles León, Rossy de Palma, Julieta Serrano
Roles Lola
Rating69% 3.498543.498543.498543.498543.49854
Ricky, a 23-year-old psychiatric patient, has been deemed cured and is released from a mental institution. Until then he has been the lover of the woman director of the hospital. An orphan, free, and alone, his goal is to have a normal life with Marina Ozores, an actress, former porn star, and recovering drug addict, whom he once slept with during an escape from the asylum.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 1h28
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Films about television, Films about terrorism, Films about psychiatry, Political films
Actors Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Rossy de Palma, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco, Chus Lampreave
Roles Secretary
Rating74% 3.7488153.7488153.7488153.7488153.748815
The film plot takes its starting point from the French play The Human Voice (La Voix humaine, 1930) by Jean Cocteau where a desperate woman tries to avoid being dumped by her lover through a series of phone calls. In the film TV actress Pepa Marcos (Carmen Maura) is depressed and taking sleeping pills because her boyfriend Iván (Fernando Guillén) has just left her. Both she and Iván work as voice-over actors who dub foreign films, notably Johnny Guitar with Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden. The voice he uses to sweet-talk her (and many other women) is the same one he uses in his work. He is about to leave on a trip and has asked Pepa to pack his things in a suitcase that he will pick up later.