Career

Belén Fabra started by playing small roles in numerous theater plays, films and television series.

She made her breakthrough with the 2007 play Plataforma, for which she was nominated for the Max Award and the Valle-Inclán de Teatro Award.

Fabra first came to prominence in the cinema with the 2007 film

2007 in film

This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...

 Canciones de amor en Lolita's Club

Canciones de Amor en Lolita's club

Canciones de amor en Lolita's Club is a 2007 Spanish film written and directed by Vicente Aranda. It stars Eduardo Noriega and Flora Martínez. The plot follows the story of twin brothers, one is a coldhearted violent police officer, the other is a helpless romantic with a mental disability...

, directed by Vicente Aranda

Vicente Aranda

Vicente Aranda , is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Due to his refined and personal style, he is one of the most renowned Spanish filmmakers. He started as a founded member of the Barcelona School of Film and became known for bringing contemporary Spanish novels to life on the...

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She was nominated for the Gaudí Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Gaudí Awards

The Gaudí Awards, known in Catalan as Premis Gaudí, are Catalonia's main national film awards. The awards were established in 2009 by Acadèmia del Cinema Català ....

 for her role in the "notorious" 2008 erotic film

2008 in film

This is a list of all major films made in 2008.-Highest-grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2008...

 Diario de una ninfómana

Diario de una Ninfómana

Diario de una Ninfómana is a Spanish erotic drama directed by Christian Molina and starring Belen Fabra and released in 2008.-Title:...

. She is currently working in two films, Flores negras and L'estació de l'oblit.

Personal life

Belén is fluent in Catalan

Catalan language

Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...

, Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 and English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and she can speak Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

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Film

• L'estratègia del cucut (2001) (TV)
• El lado oscuro del corazón 2 (2001)
• Carles, príncep de Viana (2001) (TV)
• Joc de mentides (2003) (TV)
• Mai storie d'amore in cucina (2004) (TV)
• Pactar amb el gat (2007)
• Canciones de amor en Lolita's Club
  Canciones de Amor en Lolita's club
  Canciones de amor en Lolita's Club is a 2007 Spanish film written and directed by Vicente Aranda. It stars Eduardo Noriega and Flora Martínez. The plot follows the story of twin brothers, one is a coldhearted violent police officer, the other is a helpless romantic with a mental disability...
  
  (2007)
• Diario de una Ninfómana
  Diario de una Ninfómana
  Diario de una Ninfómana is a Spanish erotic drama directed by Christian Molina and starring Belen Fabra and released in 2008.-Title:...
  
  (2008)
• Flores negras (2009)
• L'estació de l'oblit (2009)

Television

• Majoria absoluta (2002)
• Pepe Carvalho
  Pepe Carvalho
  Pepe Carvalho is a fictional private detective, the protagonist of a series of novels written by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.-The character:Carvalho has a rich, complex and contradictory personality. The author uses his adventures to describe, and in many instances criticize, the political and...
  
  (2003)
• Hospital Central
  Hospital Central
  Hospital Central is a Spanish television series that follows the professional and personal lives of the staff of the fictitious Hospital Central in Madrid. New episodes are shown by Telecinco network in Spain, and cable/satellite channel Factoría de Ficción reruns them a couple of weeks later...
  
  (2006)
• Planta 25 (2007)
• Positus (2007)
• Zoo (2008)

Theater

• Què de què (l'actualitat a escena) (2001)
• Migracions.es (2003)
• Happy Hour (2005)
• La fam (2006)
• Tirant lo Blanc (2007)
• Plataforma (2007)
• Jugar amb un tigre (2008)

Awards and nominations

• Gaudí Awards
  Gaudí Awards
  The Gaudí Awards, known in Catalan as Premis Gaudí, are Catalonia's main national film awards. The awards were established in 2009 by Acadèmia del Cinema Català ....
  
  
  • 2008: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Diario de una ninfómana
    Diario de una Ninfómana
    Diario de una Ninfómana is a Spanish erotic drama directed by Christian Molina and starring Belen Fabra and released in 2008.-Title:...
    
    ) — Nominated
• Premios Max de las artes escénicas
  • 2007: Best Featured Actress in a Play (Plataforma) — Nominated
• Premios Valle-Inclán
  • 2007: Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Plataforma) — Nominated

External links

• Belén Fabra at the Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
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