
Acting
Manuela Velasco
Born
1975-10-23 (50)
Place of birth
Madrid, Spain
Known for
Acting
Credits
45 titles
Manuela Velasco is a Spanish actress and host born in Madrid. She made her debut on a movie at only 8 years of age. She is best known for her outstanding and popular work in REC saga directed by Jaume Balagueró. She has participated in an important range of tv shows with small roles like 'Cuéntame como pasó' or 'Ángel o demonio'. Currently she is member of the cast of 'Velvet', one of the most popular tv shows in Spain.
Known for
4.7El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on September 17, 2007. The show won the Entertainment prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.
El hormiguero
2006
7.1Recounts 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.
Cuéntame cómo pasó
2001
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Amar es para siempre
2013
7.91763. The life of Adriana, a brave and loyal woman, suffers an unexpected setback when she receives a devastating blow: her father has died, and, as a result of a secret pact, she must travel from the city of Madrid to Valle Salvaje, in northern Spain, to marry a stranger. A dark secret from her past follows her to the remote valley, home to her fiancé's family and her troubled aunt, Doña Victoria. There, her life will change forever. She will experience true love, betrayal, and danger as she tries to uncover the truth behind her father's death.
Valle salvaje
2024
7.9Aída is a Spanish comedy sitcom set in Madrid, that spin off from another sitcom called 7 Vidas. The show first aired on January 16, 2005 and is produced by Globomedia for the Spanish network Telecinco. It currently started its ninth season. The show stars Carmen Machi as the title character, Aída García, a working, single mother with two teenage children, forced to move in with her mother and brother to make ends meet. The show has received favorable criticism from the audience and has been the most viewed show in Spain since 2007. It has also received several awards like the Ondas Award for Best Spanish Sitcom. The Polish re-make of the series began airing in March 2012 on TVP2 channel.
Aída
2005
6.1In 1950s Spain, the heir to a fashion house romances a beautiful seamstress who works for the company, despite the objections of his family.
Velvet
2014
Film credits
2020s · 6 titles
5.4Samuel and Lourdes are a humble marriage that go out of their way taking care of the land and their Lord properties. The owner of the house is Víctor, an ancient vampire that only feeds himself with the blood of bad people. Generation over generation, Samuel's family has been in charge of the duty of protecting their Lord but now, Samuel and Lourdes have two problems: they can not have a baby and a mysterious vampire relative arrives to the place turning everything upside down.
While the Masters Sleep
2023
7.0The horror film [REC], directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, and released in 2007, was an unprecedented triumph for Spanish fantasy cinema. Fifteen years later, those responsible for the creation and worldwide success of this cinematic milestone decode its keys and resurrect the myth.
[REC]: Horror Without Pause
2022
7.6No synopsis available yet.
Laura and the mystery of the bride that waited too long
2023
NRCarlos is a 17-year-old who suffers from bullying and finds himself caught in a spiral of fears and mental health issues.
Sin Piel
2024
NRNo synopsis available yet.
24 Siete
2023
8.0She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starring children, a child prodigy unlike any other; a girl who, in time, would become a symbol of freedom and a total artist. Actress, singer, friend, lover. This is the story of Ana Belén.
La corte de Ana
2020
2010s · 8 titles
5.6Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.
[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014
4.7Film based on the characters of the English writer Arthur Conan Doyle. It tells a hypothetical meeting in Madrid between the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper.
Holmes & Watson: Madrid Days
2012
Alberto owns an advertising agency. On January 1, 2006, without knowing why, he do not know off the bed. The next day either, or the next week or the next 5 years.
El encamado
2012
5.9Quique is a successful 30-year-old composer. He does not have the necessary funds to support a broken family. With a sister who is in prison for trafficking drugs and an elderly mother suffering from Alzheimer's, he decides to reconcile his activity with a new job: Drug dealer.
Before the Burn
2019
5.3The strong friendship between three friends is to be tested at the moment they learn that an old childhood companion has died and has left them his entire estate. To get it they must participate in a pre-planned wager devised by the deceased. This results in a mad spiral of competitiveness that will make the lives of the protagonists transformed forever.
Amigos...
2011
3.0After four years of living together, Léa dumps Mario. He is going to have to spend the loneliest summer of his life locked up in his Madrid apartment, with multiple broken bones. But this summer promises to be a journey in search of happiness, without leaving the downtown district. This trip will change the life of Mario, Chica, a mysterious young woman who appears on his doorstep, and Olmo the young and sassy neighbor, in love with Mario.
Cuento de verano
2015
A Documentary seeks the encounter between people, the collective memory of the city of Madrid.
Map of Memories of Madrid
2014
7.0Gus and Jimena like each other a lot. The world is on the edge of a precipice, but they are going to discover that love is something from another galaxy.
Boldness
2012
2000s · 10 titles
7.2A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
[REC]
2007
6.6The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.
[REC]²
2009
6.8Eight year old Lucas would like to know how the Tooth Fairy exchanges coins for teeth without getting caught. He is determined to stay awake all night to find out. Meanwhile, a little mouse falls into a trap set by a dishonest contractor who is desperate to tell the world his secret, that the mouse is the Tooth Fairy. Lucas and his family has to do everything in their power to help the sweet little mouse with its mission, which since time immemorial, is to make children happy...
The Hairy Tooth Fairy 2
2008
8.0Depiction of the life of St. Anthony, beginning with his initial calling to the priesthood as a young Portugese nobleman, and following him as he becomes a Franciscan monk and preaches across Africa and Europe.
Saint Anthony: The Miracle Worker of Padua
2002
5.1Six teenagers decide to spend the night at an old abandoned school where 27 years ago a horrible massacre occurred. The kids run afoul of the vicious crazed security guard who committed the brutal killings.
School Killer
2001
7.0What should you do if you are young, handsome but your life is terribly boring? Of course to die! Who can help you? Of course, two your best friends. But what if assisted suicide becomes an original way to earn? When a business plan comes to mind to the three adventurers they are no longer up to the death!
The Suicide Club
2007
5.7A German bank buys a small Spanish entity and announces to its employees that it will pre-retire them on January 1st. The cashier Galindo proposes his fellow coworkers a plan to steal a large sum of euros which will arrive on New Year's Eve.
Robbery at 3 O'clock… and Half
2003
4.6A group of guys face the problems of daily life in a shared house
Fish People
2001
7.6Luis has screwed up - to the bottom. But Pepe is there to help him - to fall. Neither of them had really any idea of the great mess in which they had been involved for some time.
Hienas
2009
6.0Revolution in Spain, around the events of 2 May 1808, when the people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation.
Blood of May
2008
1980s · 2 titles
7.1Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.
Law of Desire
1987
5.4Two popular television actors, Ada and Bruno, are filming " Hotel de Fez ", a popular and popular television series that upsets the lives of its two protagonists. Together they will initiate a romance behind the small screen very particular since there will be no time or way to consummate it, which will cause a tremendous tangle sown with nonsense.
El juego más divertido
1988
Series credits
4.7El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on September 17, 2007. The show won the Entertainment prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.
El hormiguero
2006
4.7El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on September 17, 2007. The show won the Entertainment prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.
El hormiguero
2006
7.1Recounts 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.
Cuéntame cómo pasó
2001
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Amar es para siempre
2013
7.91763. The life of Adriana, a brave and loyal woman, suffers an unexpected setback when she receives a devastating blow: her father has died, and, as a result of a secret pact, she must travel from the city of Madrid to Valle Salvaje, in northern Spain, to marry a stranger. A dark secret from her past follows her to the remote valley, home to her fiancé's family and her troubled aunt, Doña Victoria. There, her life will change forever. She will experience true love, betrayal, and danger as she tries to uncover the truth behind her father's death.
Valle salvaje
2024
7.9Aída is a Spanish comedy sitcom set in Madrid, that spin off from another sitcom called 7 Vidas. The show first aired on January 16, 2005 and is produced by Globomedia for the Spanish network Telecinco. It currently started its ninth season. The show stars Carmen Machi as the title character, Aída García, a working, single mother with two teenage children, forced to move in with her mother and brother to make ends meet. The show has received favorable criticism from the audience and has been the most viewed show in Spain since 2007. It has also received several awards like the Ondas Award for Best Spanish Sitcom. The Polish re-make of the series began airing in March 2012 on TVP2 channel.
Aída
2005
6.1In 1950s Spain, the heir to a fashion house romances a beautiful seamstress who works for the company, despite the objections of his family.
Velvet
2014
7.6Red Eagle is a series of adventure and intrigue on the courage, nobility, friendship and love. The protagonist is an unsung hero of justice of the seventeenth century, known by the nickname of Red Eagle, who helps the weak and who is determined to uncover the conspiracy behind the murder of his young wife.
Red Eagle
2009
6.4No synopsis available yet.
Angel or Demon
2011
6.9Barbara is a criminal psychologist who becomes the victim of an express kidnapping. After her abduction, she works as a negotiator in cases like hers to find the people who almost took her life.
Express
2022
5.3Doctor Mateo was a Spanish television comedy drama produced by Notro Films for Antena 3. It is an adaptation of the British series Doc Martin, created by Dominic Minghella.
Doctor Mateo
2009
8.3No synopsis available yet.
La agencia
2025
5.0A literature teacher suspects that a well-respected surgeon has drugged her and begins a legal case against him.
Lies and Deceit
2020
6.4An apprentice hit man who wants to surpass his mentor, two friends whom everyone except themselves sees as a couple, a Real Madrid football player about to embark on an acting career, a serial killer with a heart who finds his soul mate and a corrupt landowner cornered when a “parcel” arrives at his door make up these five self-contained stories, ranging from romantic comedy to drama, as well as terror, dark humour and thriller.
Tales of the Lockdown
2020
7.4No synopsis available yet.
Traición
2017
8.5La Chica de Ayer is a Spanish television series which first aired on the channel Antena 3 between 26 April and 14 June 2009. A detective show, it was based on the British series Life on Mars which featured a policeman suddenly transported back to 1973. The Spanish version of the show was set four years later, in 1977, and took its name from the Spanish song "La Chica de Ayer" by Nacha Pop in a similar manner to the British version which was named after the David Bowie song "Life on Mars". It featured Ernesto Alterio in the role of Samuel Santos, a modern-day police officer who finds himself in 1977 post-Franco Spain under the command of Quin Gallardo, a tough old-school policeman contemptuous of his modern methods.
La chica de ayer
2009
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Lina, La mujer espectacular
2024
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hector de comer
2025
