---
name: "Blanca Portillo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/blanca-portillo"
fi1m_id: "blanca-portillo"
imdb_id: "nm0692391"
tmdb_id: 3480
wikidata_id: "Q289922"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 June 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-01T20:34:50.968944+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Blanca Portillo

## Identity

Blanca Portillo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/blanca-portillo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** blanca-portillo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0692391
- **TMDB ID:** 3480
- **Wikidata ID:** Q289922
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanca_Portillo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q289922, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0692391/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3480

Actor. Born 15 June 1963 in Madrid, Spain.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 June 1963, Madrid, Spain
- **Active:** 2006–2009
- **Also known as:** 블랑카 포르티요
- **Frequently works with:** [Esther García](https://film.one/person/esther-garcia.md), [Pedro Almodóvar](https://film.one/person/pedro-almodovar.md), [Penélope Cruz](https://film.one/person/penelope-cruz.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanca_Portillo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q289922, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0692391/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3480

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Broken Embraces*](https://film.one/film/broken-embraces.md) (66)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Blanca Portillo is a Spanish actress, theatre director and producer. Born in Madrid on 15 June 1963, she trained at the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático and began her career in theatre before making her feature film debut in *Entre rojas* (1995).

She gained wider recognition for her role as Carlota in the long-running television series *7 vidas* and for her collaborations with Pedro Almodóvar, notably as Agustina in *Volver* (2006), for which she shared the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. Other film roles include appearances in *Goya's Ghosts* (2006), *Broken Embraces* (2009) and *Maixabel* (2021), the last of which earned her the Goya Award for Best Actress.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, es.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Broken Embraces* (2009), Fi1m 66, as Judit García — [page](https://film.one/film/broken-embraces.md)
- *Volver* (2006), Fi1m 84, as Agustina — [page](https://film.one/film/volver.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Día de caza* (2026), as Blanca
- *Escape* (2024), as Doctor Giráldez
- *The Law of the Sea* (2024), series, Actor
- *Teresa* (2023), as Teresa
- *When You Least Expect It* (2022), series, as Soledad Laforet
- *La Fortuna* (2021), series, as Zeta
- *Maixabel* (2021), as Maixabel Lasa
- *Parot* (2021), series, as Andre Llanes
- *Portrait of White Woman with Grey Hair and Wrinkles* (2020), as Julia
- *The Invisible* (2020), as Mara
- *Promises of Sand* (2019), series, as Julia
- *I Know Who You Are* (2017), series, as Alicia Castro
- *The Invaders* (2016), as (Voice)
- *Maria converses* (2016), Actor
- *Boy Missing* (2016), as Patricia
- *Web Therapy* (2016), series, as Patricia Navas
- *Cuéntame un cuento* (2014), series, as Sara Morgade (La bruja)
- *El chiringuito de Pepe* (2014), series, as Mariana Masianet Alonso
- *Stolen Children* (2013), series, as Sor Eulalia
- *Concepción Arenal, la visitadora de cárceles* (2012), as Concepción Arenal
- *As Luck Would Have It* (2011), as Mercedes
- *Broken Embraces* (2009), as Judit García — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/broken-embraces.md)
- *Acusados* (2009), series, as Rosa Ballester Alonso
- *My Prison Yard* (2008), as Adela
- *Seven Billiard Tables* (2007), as Charo
- *Goya's Ghosts* (2006), as Queen María Luisa
- *Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer* (2006), as Fray Emilio Bocanegra
- *Volver* (2006), as Agustina — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/volver.md)
- *Elsa & Fred* (2005), as Cuca
- *Tercero B* (2002), Actor
- *Solo mía* (2001), as Abogada
- *Love, Money and Health, in This Order* (2001), as Amelia
- *Cuéntame cómo pasó* (2001), series, as Begoña Sanmartín
- *7 vidas* (1999), series, as Carlota Pérez
- *Between Your Legs* (1999), as Lali
- *The Color of the Clouds* (1997), as Madre
- *Eso* (1997), as Marta
- *The Dog in the Manger* (1996), as Dorotea
- *Women in Prison* (1995), Actor
- *Crónicas urbanas* (1991), series, as Laura
- *En el nombre de Marta*, series, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Blanca Portillo](https://film.one/media/person/99260/gallery-6b6ca1308170.jpg) Blanca Portillo — Festival Internacional de  Teatro Clásico de Almagro, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Blanca_Portillo_2023.jpg/1280px-Blanca_Portillo_2023.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Blanca Portillo como Segismundo en 'La vida es sueño'. 35 edición del Festival de Teatro Clásico de Almagro. Datos de la obra Título: La vida es sueño Autor: Ca (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/99260/gallery-e803dbdd18c5.jpg) Blanca Portillo como Segismundo en 'La vida es sueño'. 35 edición del Festival de Teatro Clásico de Almagro. Datos de la obra Título: La vida es sueño Autor: Ca (2012) — Festival Internacional de  Teatro Clásico de Almagro, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Blanca_Portillo.jpg/1280px-Blanca_Portillo.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Toledo, 21 de noviembre de 2021.- La consejera de Educación, Cultura y Deportes, Rosa Ana Rodríguez, asiste a la gala de clausura y a la entrega de premios del ](https://film.one/media/person/99260/gallery-180726cbf232.jpg) Toledo, 21 de noviembre de 2021.- La consejera de Educación, Cultura y Deportes, Rosa Ana Rodríguez, asiste a la gala de clausura y a la entrega de premios del  — Gobierno de Castilla-La Mancha, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Blanca_Portillo_%282021%29.jpg/1280px-Blanca_Portillo_%282021%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Toledo, 21 de noviembre de 2021.- La consejera de Educación, Cultura y Deportes, Rosa Ana Rodríguez, asiste a la gala de clausura y a la entrega de premios del ](https://film.one/media/person/99260/gallery-db021e71330d.jpg) Toledo, 21 de noviembre de 2021.- La consejera de Educación, Cultura y Deportes, Rosa Ana Rodríguez, asiste a la gala de clausura y a la entrega de premios del  — Gobierno de Castilla-La Mancha, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Blanca_Portillo_%282021%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Blanca Portillo](https://film.one/media/person/99260/gallery-68650e71b53d.jpg) Blanca Portillo — Image via TMDB
- ![Blanca Portillo](https://film.one/media/person/99260/gallery-224bbd247579.jpg) Blanca Portillo — Image via TMDB
- ![Blanca Portillo](https://film.one/media/person/99260/gallery-43affa9b9023.jpg) Blanca Portillo — Image via TMDB
- ![Toledo, 21 de noviembre de 2021.- La consejera de Educación, Cultura y Deportes, Rosa Ana Rodríguez, asiste a la gala de clausura y a la entrega de premios del ](https://film.one/media/person/99260/gallery-efca1f8cfc2e.jpg) Toledo, 21 de noviembre de 2021.- La consejera de Educación, Cultura y Deportes, Rosa Ana Rodríguez, asiste a la gala de clausura y a la entrega de premios del  — Gobierno de Castilla-La Mancha, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Blanca_Portillo_%282021b%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro fotografiado por el fotógrafo Pablo Lorente (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/99260/gallery-cda9d808dd7e.jpg) Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro fotografiado por el fotógrafo Pablo Lorente (2023) — Festival Internacional de  Teatro Clásico de Almagro, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Blanca_Portillo_-_Festival_Internacional_de_Teatro_Cl%C3%A1sico_de_Almagro_2023.jpg/1280px-Blanca_Portillo_-_Festival_Internacional_de_Teatro_Cl%C3%A1sico_de_Almagro_2023.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 5 won, 2 nominated

- Forqué Award for the best female performance 2022: Forqué Award for the best female performance (won), for *Maixabel*
- Goya Award for Best Actress 2022: Goya Award for Best Actress (won), for *Maixabel*
- Iris Award for Best Female Performance 2022: Iris Award for Best Female Performance (nominated), for *When You Least Expect It*
- Premio Feroz for Best Main Actress 2022: Premio Feroz for Best Main Actress (nominated), for *Maixabel*
- Medal of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers for the best actress 2021: Medal of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers for the best actress (won), for *Maixabel*
- Premio Fuente de Castalia 2015: Premio Fuente de Castalia (won)
- National Theater Prize 2012: National Theater Prize (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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