Biography
Mabel Rivera is a Spanish actress from Galicia. Born María Isabel Rivera Torres on 20 June 1952 in Ferrol, A Coruña, she trained at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela and began her professional career in theatre in the 1980s, joining the Centro Dramático Galego.
She gained wider recognition for her role as Manuela in The Sea Inside (2004), for which she received the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress. Rivera has appeared in films including Goya's Ghosts (2006), The Orphanage (2007) as Pilar, and provided the voice of Antonia in Wrinkles (2011). Her television credits include the long-running Galician series Pratos combinados (1995–2004). She is married to Enrique Banet.
