---
name: "Mabel Rivera"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mabel-rivera"
fi1m_id: "mabel-rivera"
imdb_id: "nm0729345"
tmdb_id: 33409
wikidata_id: "Q468779"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "20 June 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T04:35:08.245271+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."
---

# Mabel Rivera

## Identity

Mabel Rivera

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mabel-rivera
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mabel-rivera
- **IMDb ID:** nm0729345
- **TMDB ID:** 33409
- **Wikidata ID:** Q468779
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Rivera, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q468779, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0729345/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33409

Actor. Born 20 June 1952 in Ferrol, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 20 June 1952, Ferrol, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
- **Also known as:** María Isabel Rivera Torres, Mabel Ribera
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Rivera, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q468779, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0729345/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33409

## 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.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Orphanage* (2007), Fi1m 81, as Pilar — [page](https://film.one/film/the-orphanage.md)

## Complete filmography (29)

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

- *Drea & Cloe* (2026), as Norma Rodarte
- *Sundays* (2025), as María Dolores
- *A-Maniki* (2025), as Anciana
- *Jump!* (2023), as Abuela
- *Rapa* (2022), series, as Amparo Seoane
- *Josephine* (2021), as Eladia
- *María Solinha* (2020), as Muriel Barba
- *Arima* (2020), as Ana
- *Dying to Come Back* (2019), as Manuela
- *Ato San Nen* (2017), as Marisa
- *Wedding in New York* (2015), as Isabel
- *Inevitable* (2014), Actor
- *Familia* (2013), series, as María Elena Oquendo
- *Anacos* (2012), Actor
- *Emilia Pardo Bazán, la condesa rebelde* (2012), as Amalia
- *Concepción Arenal, la visitadora de cárceles* (2012), as Juana de Vega
- *Game of Werewolves* (2011), as Rosa
- *Wrinkles* (2011), as Antonia (voice)
- *Conexão* (2011), series, Actor
- *48 horas* (2008), series, as Consuelo
- *Blackout* (2008), as Claudia's Grandmother
- *Mataharis* (2007), as Mujer engañada
- *The Orphanage* (2007), as Pilar — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-orphanage.md)
- *Goya's Ghosts* (2006), as María Isabel Bilbatúa
- *The Sea Inside* (2004), as Manuela
- *Pratos Combinados* (1995), series, as Balbina
- *The Enchanted Forest* (1987), as Mrs. Gundín
- *Carraxe*, Actor
- *El jefe*, as Ramona García

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress 2004: Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress (won), for *The Sea Inside*

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

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