Ruth Silveira

Ruth Silveira

Born: April 13, 1942
in Sacramento, California, USA

Movies for Ruth Silveira...

Inland Empire
Title: Inland Empire
Character: Moloi
Released: March 31, 2021
Type: Movie
Childhood friends Ian and Tim slowly realize that they’ve wasted their lives selling popcorn and participating in medical testing. Their hometown is a surreal nightmare, but they're too bored to notice.
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Title: Perfect Couples
Character: Aunt Fay
Released: December 20, 2010
Type: TV
Perfect Couples is an American comedy television series that was originally broadcast by NBC. The half-hour romantic comedy was co-created by Jon Pollack and Scott Silveri and produced by Universal Media Studios. A sneak preview of the series aired on December 20, 2010, and officially premiered on January 20, 2011, as a midseason replacement for the 2010–11 television season. The show was filmed in Los Angeles. On April 14, 2011, the show was replaced in its timeslot with The Paul Reiser Show which was cancelled 11 days later on April 25th after only two episodes. NBC officially canceled Perfect Couples on May 13, 2011.
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A Grandpa for Christmas
Title: A Grandpa for Christmas
Character: Ruth Ortiz
Released: November 24, 2007
Type: Movie
An old-time movie-star singer/ hoofer rebonds with his estranged daughter and 9-year-old granddaughter.
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Never Say Macbeth
Title: Never Say Macbeth
Character: Ghost Witch
Released: July 10, 2007
Type: Movie
Danny; a science teacher, tries to reunite with his ex-girlfriend Ruth, who has dumped him to become an actress in Hollywood. Stumbling into an LA theater during auditions asking: "Is this the audition for Macbeth?" he starts a series of unfortunate events that not only curse the production, but his ex-girlfriend as well, all but ruining his chance for love. Never Say Macbeth is a high-spirited no holds barred comedy about the biggest taboo in theater. Macbeth is believed to be cursed because it is the only Shakespeare play based on black magic and witchcraft, which is why this film, Never Say Macbeth, is also cursed.
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Title: House
Character: Surgeon
Released: November 16, 2004
Type: TV
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
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Title: Crossing Jordan
Character: Judge Nancy Wright
Released: September 24, 2001
Type: TV
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
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Kisses in the Dark
Title: Kisses in the Dark
Character: Waitress
Released: June 23, 1998
Type: Movie
Four independent short films comprise this quirky anthology. "Coriolis Effect" (1994) is an offbeat love story involving storm chasers. In the Oscar-nominated "Solly's Diner" (1979), a homeless man (Larry Hankin, who also directs) witnesses a holdup. "Looping" (1991) satirizes independent moviemaking. And the dialogue-free "Joe" (1997) features David Aaron Baker as a psychiatric patient searching for enlightenment.
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Title: JAG
Character: Secretary
Released: September 23, 1995
Type: TV
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth.
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Title: ER
Character: Marni
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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A Killer Among Us
Title: A Killer Among Us
Character: Woman
Released: October 29, 1990
Type: Movie
Theresa is one of the twelve jurors who have to decide about a case of assassination. She believes very strongly in the innocence of the young man, but can't convince the others. During the discussions, she realizes that one member of the jury knows details that he couldn't know from the trial alone. Since no one believes her suspicions, she investigates on her own.
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Rain Man
Title: Rain Man
Character: (voice)
Released: December 12, 1988
Type: Movie
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
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Title: Empty Nest
Character: The Nurse
Released: October 8, 1988
Type: TV
Widowed pediatrician Harry Weston is a miracle worker when it comes to dealing with his young patients, but he's more challenged by the other people surrounding him: daughters Barbara and Carol; his wisecracking office assistant, nurse LaVerne Todd; and obnoxious neighborhood mooch Charley Dietz. Thank goodness he always finds a friendly shoulder (and a warm, wet tongue) in Dreyfuss, his enormous dog.
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Micki + Maude
Title: Micki + Maude
Character: Micki's Nurse
Released: December 21, 1984
Type: Movie
TV reporter Rob Salinger longs for a baby. But his career-minded wife, Micki, is too busy for motherhood. A romantic fling with a seductive cellist, Maude, leads to her pregnancy. Rob receives another shock when Micki announces that she's also expecting! In love with both women, he marries Maude and starts leading a double life full of complicated and riotous situations.
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Deadly Lessons
Title: Deadly Lessons
Character: Mrs. Hunt
Released: March 7, 1983
Type: Movie
A psycho is stalking the students at an exclusive girls' school.
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Marian Rose White
Title: Marian Rose White
Character: Nurse Hartman
Released: January 19, 1982
Type: Movie
Marian Rose White is placed in a State Home for the feeble-minded by her uncaring mother when her father dies. She is a young teenager and there is nothing wrong with her except for some clumsiness, mostly caused by poor vision. State law (in 1934) requires sterilization of all inmates. Sympathetic nurse, Bonnie McNeil, befriends Marian and protests her treatment.
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The Best Little Girl in the World
Title: The Best Little Girl in the World
Character: 2nd Nurse
Released: May 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressures.
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First Family
Title: First Family
Character: Mrs. Shockley
Released: December 25, 1980
Type: Movie
When the First Daughter is kidnapped by an African tribe, the President must do what he can to keep them from sacrificing her.
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Solly’s Diner
Title: Solly’s Diner
Character: Waitress
Released: October 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A homeless street character (Larry Hankin) tries to get free food from the night waitress (Ruth Silvera) in Solly's Diner. His plea is interrupted by a desperate business man (Roger Bowen) who pulls a gun and demands all the money in the cash register.
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And Baby Makes Six
Title: And Baby Makes Six
Character: Nurse #2
Released: October 22, 1979
Type: Movie
A middle-aged couple with three grown children discovers that they soon will be parents once more and faces a variety of emotional responses from friends and family.
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A Question of Love
Title: A Question of Love
Released: November 26, 1978
Type: Movie
A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.
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THX 1138
Title: THX 1138
Character: Announcer (voice)
Released: March 11, 1971
Type: Movie
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.
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The Strawberry Statement
Title: The Strawberry Statement
Character: Woman
Released: August 28, 1970
Type: Movie
A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals.