Mirella Pascual

Acting

Mirella Pascual

Born

1954-04-10 (72)

Place of birth

Montevideo, Uruguay

Known for

Acting

Credits

31 titles

Mirella Pascual (Montevideo, April 10, 1954) is a Uruguayan film and theater actress, known for her work in the film Whisky. She has also ventured into Argentine cinema.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 9 titles

Dulce Violencia (aka Sweet Violence) poster
NR

A family plans to murder their daughter’s killer after he is released from a twenty-year prison sentence. Still pleading innocence, the ex-convict tries to rebuild his life until the ghosts of the past return to haunt him

Dulce Violencia (aka Sweet Violence)

2026

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet poster
6.4

Sebastian, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet

2021

I Woke Up With a Dream poster
5.9

Felipe is a teenager from La Paloma who attends an acting workshop behind the back of his mother, who opposes him becoming an actor. When the opportunity arises to attend a casting in Montevideo, Felipe escapes by bus for the day, but when he succeeds and finds it necessary to extend his stay, his lie gets out of hand.

I Woke Up With a Dream

2022

The Visitor poster
4.0

An ex-convict returns home in search of a new life and a chance to reconnect with his estranged young daughter, only to be met with resistance from his father-in-law - an influential pastor in the Evangelical community in town.

The Visitor

2022

Norma poster
6.4

A woman finds new meaning in her life after her housekeeper quits her job.

Norma

2023

No artwork available
NR

Silvio Bertolini has just retired after 40 years as an Accounting Manager. His reward? A pregnant daughter in Barcelona, a wife eager for a family trip, and a government that insists he is dead.

When I Existed

2026

Desconocido poster
NR

Guillermo travels to the countryside to take care of Héctor, his sick father for three nights. Upon his arrival, Guillermo finds that Héctor's condition changes at night, in which, in turn, something coming from the sky seems to approach.

Desconocido

2022

Nélida poster
2.0

Nélida is in her 70’s and has lived alone in her small apartment for so long, that the pandemic that puts the world into confinement brings no change to her routine, except for her daughter’s visits becoming more frequent. Until the day she gets a call from a radio show that intends to introduce her to a love suitor, dynamiting the wall she built around herself and cornering her own perception of reality.

Nélida

2023

Late Winter poster
2.0

Clara, a widow in the twilight of her life, spends her days lonely. She invites someone dear to her to share a barbecue together. However, his delay will undo her plans, and her ritual around the preparation will unstabilize itself.

Late Winter

2022

2010s · 16 titles

A Twelve-Year Night poster
7.3

Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.

A Twelve-Year Night

2018

The Silence of the Sky poster
6.4

After being a victim of rape within their own home, Diana chooses to keep the trauma secret. Mario, her husband, also has something to hide. The silence takes the couple's account over the day turns gradually into a peculiar form of violence.

The Silence of the Sky

2016

Nobody's Watching poster
6.0

Nico is a famous actor in Argentina, but in New York, nobody takes notice. He needs to juggle bartending, babysitting and odd jobs to keep himself afloat. But when old friends from Buenos Aires come to visit, he needs to juggle the image of his old life with the reality of the struggling actor in New York City.

Nobody's Watching

2017

History of Fear poster
5.9

Buenos Aires, during the summer heart, in gated communities surrounded by wastelands covered with trash. The barking of stray dogs, repeated power outages, and uncontrollable clouds of smoke drive the inhabitants to confront their most primitive instincts.

History of Fear

2014

My Friend from the Park poster
6.5

While her filmmaker husband works in Chile, harried young mother Liz struggles to take care of her infant son. Feeling out of place amongst the tight-knit group of other parents at the park, doubted by her husband, and judged by her newly hired nanny, Liz is drawn to factory worker Rosa, a plain-talking single mother she meets at the swings one day. Despite Liz’s liberation upon finding a bold new confidante, the friends’ increasingly apparent class differences, along with swirling rumors about Rosa’s motives and muddy family situation, feed Liz’s suspicions that her new pal might be a sinister influence on her already fragile life.

My Friend from the Park

2015

El padre de mis hijos poster
3.4

Eva isn't having the best time: her boyfriend dumped her overnight, for no apparent reason, and she's forced to move back in with her parents. She decides to have her first child, but she has no one to be with, and what begins as a worry turns into an obsession.

El padre de mis hijos

2018

Leo's Room poster
6.8

Leo, a young man coming to terms with his own sexuality, runs into Caro, a primary school friend he fancied when they were kids, who's now trying to ward off her own personal demons. This casual re-encounter will affect their personal conflicts without either truly grasping the other's problem.

Leo's Room

2010

Penumbra poster
5.6

A woman hesitantly rents an apartment to an eerie man who she soon realizes has a part in the solar eclipse that is taking place.

Penumbra

2012

The Snatch Thief poster
6.4

In the Argentinian city of Tucumán, Miguel is making a living as a “motochorro”, a thief who snatches people’s belongings fromhis motorbike. When he steals the purse of Elena, an old woman, he ends up hurting her badly. After the brutal incident, Miguel is plagued by guilt and unable to forget about his victim. In an attempt to make things right, he conceals his true identity from the old woman and starts to take care of the injured and unsuspecting Elena. The closer he gets to her the more he becomes entangled in his own lies. Afraid of telling Elena the truth, Miguel continues to be haunted by his past and is unable to find true redemption.

The Snatch Thief

2018

Por un tiempo poster
5.3

Leandro and Silvina, a young and successful middle-class couple, are experiencing the happiest time of their lives. But the sudden appearance of Leandro's daughter from another relationship, destabilizes the couple revealing hitherto unknown differences.

Por un tiempo

2013

Severina poster
6.4

A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. When he discovers that she also steals from other bookstores, he is consumed with jealousy and starts living in a kind of love delirium, on the border between fiction and reality. The closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes and he begins to wonder why she steals, what are her values and who is the older man she lives with. In the end, what is real and what isn’t? And will he find a place in her life as he moves away from his own?

Severina

2017

María y el Araña poster
7.0

A 13-year-old girl living in a Buenos Aires shantytown falls for a 17-year-old boy who earns a living juggling in a Spiderman costume.

María y el Araña

2013

Alelí poster
6.8

The death of patriarch Alfredo sends his heirs into a downward spiral. With the pending sale of their beach house, a repository of childhood memories, three siblings’ long-simmering resentments are brought to a full boil.

Alelí

2019

Miss Tacuarembo poster
5.8

Miss Tacuarembó is a unique mixture of drama, comedy, musical with touches of parody and nostalgia which for its beautiful narration will attract many open-minded viewers not only in Latin American world. The story of Natalia, the main hero, and her life's struggles is shown in different three eras of her life.

Miss Tacuarembo

2010

Postponed poster
5.0

When three people die, their first step post-mortem is meeting a death consultant who allows them to each ask one question about anything (so many people die per day so only one question each is possible). As we start to learn about their connection, we begin to think of how arbitrary - or not- death really is. A dark humorous drama about humankind behavior and beliefs- before and after death.

Postponed

2016

Being Awake poster
5.0

Santiago wakes up in the desert and goes to his father’s house who receives him at gunpoint. Ernesto decides to sacrifice Arón, the dog, but phantasmagoric apparitions shake the family’s foundations.

Being Awake

2017

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