Susi Sánchez

Susi Sánchez

Born: March 21, 1955
in Valencia, Spain
Susi Sánchez is best known for her roles in the Vicente Aranda film Mad Love, where she gives life to Queen Isabella I, and in the plays Cara de plata and Mujeres soñaron caballos. For these three roles she was nominated for the Spanish Actors and Actresses Union Awards, winning as Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Cara de plata.

In 2015 she joined the cast of the TV series Carlos, rey emperador, playing Louise of Savoy.

Movies for Susi Sánchez...

Reinas
Title: Reinas
Character: Abuela
Released: September 6, 2024
Type: Movie
Surrounded by social and political chaos in Lima during the summer of 1992, Lucia, Aurora, and their mother, Elena, plan to leave and seek opportunities in the United States. Their farewell involves reconnecting with their estranged father, Carlos, adding turbulence to the regrets, hopes, and fears of their emotional departure.
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Title: Fleeting Lies
Released: October 9, 2023
Type: TV
It follows Lucía an executive of a high-tech company who has fought to get as far away from her humble origins as possible. On the day of her promotion, she is accused of espionage and fired.
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Loli Tormenta
Title: Loli Tormenta
Released: March 31, 2023
Type: Movie
Lola, the modern and chaotic grandmother of Edgar and Robert, took care of them after the death of her daughter a few years ago. The three live in a modest house of the outskirts in Barcelona, and nothing makes them suspect that their quiet life is about to change dramatically. Lola has entered an advanced Alzheimer's process and children, who are not willing to separate them and end up in a host place, will take care of her with great ingenuity and overflowing fantasy, hiding her disease. For this they will have to face, like Robert in their athletics competitions, more than 3,000 obstacles.
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Title: Cuidarnos entre nosotros nos hace humanos
Character: Rosa
Released: December 15, 2022
Type: TV
In this miniseries based on many true stories, we experience firsthand that instinct that makes us care for others.
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Vasil
Title: Vasil
Character: Carmen
Released: October 16, 2022
Type: Movie
Vasil is a Bulgarian immigrant who lives on the street in Spain. Intelligent and charismatic, he has an amazing talent for chess and bridge, so much so, in fact, that despite being homeless, he manages to make a name for himself in an exclusive and prestigious club in the city.
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Lullaby
Title: Lullaby
Character: Begoña
Released: May 17, 2022
Type: Movie
Amaia has just become a mother, and the challenge is even more significant than she imagined. So when her partner has to leave for several weeks because of his job, she decides to spend time with her parents in a lovely coastal village in the Basque Country and hopefully share the responsibility of looking after her baby. However, she forgot that even when one becomes a parent, one never stops being a daughter.
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Wetland
Title: Wetland
Released: December 10, 2021
Type: Movie
As a severe drought punishes the vast expanses of rice fields in eastern Spain, the natural region of Laguna Blanca is named a Nature Preserve. A prestigious biologist, Ricardo, arrives in San Pedro to protect it. His family, however, is going through tough times but Ricardo is convinced that a change in their lives will help them move on. And it’s also an opportunity to get back to his roots, to his origins, to where he grew up as a boy and to reclaim this spot that had been buried in his fondest memories. Ricardo’s mission is to hinder the abusive and illegal use that everyone makes of the lagoon. But pressure and threats from the locals just keep getting worse. They consider Ricardo a traitor because all they are trying to do is defend their existence and their livelihood. Ricardo eventually comes to the realization that his life and that of his family are in danger.
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The Replacement
Title: The Replacement
Character: Old Eva
Released: October 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Spain, 1982. Andrés Expósito, a young police inspector, accepts a posting in Denia, a small town on the Mediterranean coast, in the hope of leading a quieter life and that the natural environment will help improve the fragile health of his daughter; but once in his new post he becomes involved by chance in the investigation of the strange death of the inspector he has come to replace.
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The Cover
Title: The Cover
Character: Shirley
Released: July 23, 2021
Type: Movie
In Benidorm, a mecca for impersonators of live singers, Dani doesn't want to be just a cover. He will meet Sandra and discover authenticity, love and what it means not to be one more.
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Title: The Innocent
Character: Irene
Released: April 30, 2021
Type: TV
An accidental killing leads a man down a dark hole of intrigue and murder. Just as he finds love and freedom, one phone call brings back the nightmare.
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Offering to the Storm
Title: Offering to the Storm
Character: Rosario
Released: July 24, 2020
Type: Movie
Inspector Amaia Salazar confronts the origins of her nightmares as she unfolds the darkest secrets of the Baztan valley. Part 3 in the Baztan Trilogy.
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The Legacy of the Bones
Title: The Legacy of the Bones
Character: Rosario
Released: December 5, 2019
Type: Movie
Inspector Amaia Salazar must return to the Baztan valley in order to solve a series of suicides that seem to follow a similar pattern.
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Pain and Glory
Title: Pain and Glory
Character: Pious Woman from Paterna
Released: March 22, 2019
Type: Movie
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
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Title: Presumed Guilty
Character: Begoña
Released: September 18, 2018
Type: TV
A terrible event leads an investigator in Paris to come back to his birth town ten years after leaving it, where he has to confront the ghosts of his past and an unsolved mystery.
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Sunday's Illness
Title: Sunday's Illness
Character: Anabel
Released: February 23, 2018
Type: Movie
Annabel is a successful businesswoman with a wealthy husband. At a reception in her villa she meets a woman, a member of the catering staff who has been hired for the evening. This woman is none other than her own daughter Chiara, whom she had left over thirty years ago. Chiara was just eight years old at the time. She now approaches her mother with an unusual request: to spend ten days together with her.
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Title: Money Heist
Character: Reni
Released: May 2, 2017
Type: TV
To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, every probability - culminate in eleven days locked up in the National Coinage and Stamp Factory of Spain, surrounded by police forces and with dozens of hostages in their power, to find out whether their suicide wager will lead to everything or nothing.
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The Invisible Guardian
Title: The Invisible Guardian
Character: Rosario
Released: March 3, 2017
Type: Movie
When the naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán, it is quickly linked to a similar murder one month before. Soon, rumours are flying in the nearby village of Elizondo. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or is it the basajaun, the ‘invisible guardian’ of Basque mythology? Inspector Amaia Salazar leads the investigation, taking her back to the heart of the Basque country where she was born, and where she hoped never to return. Shrouded in mist and surrounded by impenetrable forests, it is a place of unresolved conflicts and a terrible secret from Amaia’s childhood that will come back to haunt her. Faced with the superstitions of the village, Amaia must fight the demons of her past to confront the reality of a serial killer on the loose. But as she is drawn deeper into the investigation, she feels the presence of something darker lurking in the shadows…
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Julieta
Title: Julieta
Character: Sara (Julieta's Mother)
Released: April 8, 2016
Type: Movie
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 and she is on the verge of madness.
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Backstage
Title: Backstage
Character: Madre
Released: December 8, 2015
Type: Movie
There's nothing you can't tell your mother.
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Truman
Title: Truman
Character: Adoption Woman
Released: September 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Tomás, who lives in Canada, travels to Madrid, Spain, to visit his old friend Julián. Both of them, accompanied by Truman, Julián's faithful dog, will share many surprising and emotional little moments, triggered by the hard situation Julián is going through, for just a few days.
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Title: Carlos, rey emperador
Character: Luisa de Saboya
Released: September 7, 2015
Type: TV
As the life of Charles of Habsburg is told since his arrival to Spain, it can be seen how the heir to the crowns of Germany, Burgundy, the Netherlands, the Free County, Artois, Nevers and Rethel, of the territories of the Crown of Aragon and its related Italian territories, and of the territories of the Catholic Monarchs in Castile, North Africa and the Americas, matures as a statesman and gets stronger in face of menaces around him and good and bad advice from his counselors.
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10,000 Nights Nowhere
Title: 10,000 Nights Nowhere
Character: The Mother
Released: November 10, 2013
Type: Movie
The story of a son who is afraid of everything. Overwhelmed by his dull life, one day he decides to flee. He starts a journey to nowhere, living other lives. And he finds out that if one day you no longer want to grow, it's not all that bad. You just have to learn to fly, to fly far away. It's a story about taking important decisions; and about how each time we make a choice, somewhere within us we make exactly the opposite one.
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15 Years and One Day
Title: 15 Years and One Day
Character: Cati
Released: September 21, 2013
Type: Movie
Jon is a troubled teenager who has been expelled from school. His mother decides to teach him a lesson by sending him away with his grandfather Max, a retired military man who lives in a village by the seaside. But the time they will spend together won’t be that simple, Jon likes to flirt with danger and bad companies, and the veteran has now settled down into a comfortable life.
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La fotógrafa
Title: La fotógrafa
Character: Sara
Released: May 17, 2013
Type: Movie
During a visit to her grandparents´ house, Kath finds some pictures of the Argentinian civil unrests in 2001. Upon her return to Buenos Aires she will attempt to discover the link between these photographs and her deceased mother, the author of the images.
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I'm So Excited!
Title: I'm So Excited!
Character: Madre de Alba
Released: March 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Something has gone wrong with the landing gear of a plane en route from Madrid to Mexico City. The group of eccentric travelers on the flight, defenseless in the face of danger, indulge in colourful confessionals, while the outlandish crew attempts to find ways to entertain them.
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The Sleeping Voice
Title: The Sleeping Voice
Character: Sor Serafines
Released: October 21, 2011
Type: Movie
Finished the Spanish Civil War in April 1939, in November 1940, while Spain is being crushed by the ruthless boot of dictator Franco, Pepita travels from rural Huelva to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia, who is seven months pregnant and imprisoned, haunted by the shadow of a death sentence.
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The Skin I Live In
Title: The Skin I Live In
Character: Madre de Vicente
Released: August 17, 2011
Type: Movie
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
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Title: Angel or Demon
Character: Gabriel
Released: February 1, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: Los misterios de Laura
Character: Eugenia de Sotogrande
Released: July 27, 2009
Type: TV
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The Milk of Sorrow
Title: The Milk of Sorrow
Character: Aída
Released: February 13, 2009
Type: Movie
Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps.
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My Prison Yard
Title: My Prison Yard
Character: Funcionaria de prisiones
Released: December 26, 2008
Type: Movie
In Madrid, a petty thief who cannot adjust to life outside of jail puts together a theater troupe her friends -- a prostitute, a gypsy, and a Colombian immigrant -- in an attempt to make a go at a relatively straight life.
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A Love to Keep
Title: A Love to Keep
Character: Elvira
Released: March 19, 2006
Type: Movie
Spain, the era of dictator Franco. Two female teachers are in love, but in those years and in that regime the love is not only forbidden but also a crime. To avoid their child been in prison, the parents of the one teacher, force her to be confined in a clinic for mental diseases, where she is heavily abused, the main treatment been electroshocks. After Franco's fall, and the change of things, she is free to return to her home, under the surveillance of her mother. Her father, more compassionate, helps her escape and find her lover. But the years of been under electroshocks have damaged her health, and make it impossible to live a normal life.
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I'm Not Scared
Title: I'm Not Scared
Character: madre di Filippo
Released: February 8, 2003
Type: Movie
While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town baddie Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell about his discovery, eventually spilling the beans to his closest friend. Michele's parents learn of his discovery and warn him to forget what he saw
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Nobody's Life
Title: Nobody's Life
Character: School principal
Released: October 27, 2002
Type: Movie
With a prestigious job and a loving family, Emilio (José Coronado) has the kind of life someone would kill for. But beneath it all is a horrible lie. Emilio's wife, Ágata (Adriana Ozores), becomes suspicious when Emilio picks up a guest pass to enter the Bank of Spain -- where, ostensibly, he works as an economist. But the house of cards starts crashing down when Emilio meets a needy college student, Rosana (Marta Etura), and begins an affair that proves disastrous.
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Mad Love
Title: Mad Love
Character: Regina Isabel
Released: September 28, 2001
Type: Movie
The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.
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Title: Cuéntame cómo pasó
Character: Cristina
Released: September 13, 2001
Type: TV
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
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The Rats
Title: The Rats
Released: June 4, 1997
Type: Movie
In the mid-fifties, El Nini lives in the poorest and most forgotten rural Castile (Spain). He is a child with no more knowledge than those provided by nature. El Nini lives with his father in a cave, and with him he devotes himself to the hunting of water rats, the only means of subsistence they know. But when they are tried to deprive them of their roof and their livelihood, violence will erupt uncontrollably.
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Zapico
Title: Zapico
Character: Ex mujer
Released: November 3, 1996
Type: Movie
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Malena es un nombre de tango
Title: Malena es un nombre de tango
Character: Jimena
Released: April 12, 1996
Type: Movie
The attractive Malena listen to after telling the history of her life. Her treasure is not just an emerald that she inherits from her grandfather, but the key to discover the path of her existence, the eternal fight with her sister, and the passionate relationships with men. Based on the bestselling novel by Amanda Grandes.
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Sólo se muere dos veces
Title: Sólo se muere dos veces
Character: Realizadora
Released: March 10, 1996
Type: Movie
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Felicidades, Tovarich
Title: Felicidades, Tovarich
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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On the Far Side of the Tunnel
Title: On the Far Side of the Tunnel
Character: Marisa
Released: February 25, 1994
Type: Movie
Miguel and Aurelio are two film writers who decide to lock in a monastery in Aragon to finish the script for a movie. Strolling through the beautiful neighborhood, they meet a young and very attractive baker, with whom they maintain a loving relationship and she becomes, without realizing it, the protagonist of the script.
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Una pareja... distinta
Title: Una pareja... distinta
Released: December 16, 1974
Type: Movie
Zoraida is a single mother and bearded woman in a circus, while Charly works in transvestite shows. Together they will live a difficult and unusual love story.
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Title: Legado
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV