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María Dolores "Loles" León Rodríguez is a Spanish actress.
León at the 38th Goya Awards in 2024
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is a 1988 Spanish absurdist dark comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas and Julieta Serrano. The plot fo
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…of Barcelona, León travelled to Madrid to start a career as an actress, where she met Pedro Almodóvar during La Movida Madrileña. She has played in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1987), Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989), The Bilingual Lover (1993), and Libertarias (1996). In 1997, she had her first leading role in Amor de hombre…
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Carmen Maura (left) plays Pepa Marcos, who is depressed because her lover Iván has left her. She spends the day coping with emergencies and desperately trying to give him a message.
Antonio Banderas plays Carlos, Ivan’s son, who is engaged to Marisa but becomes attracted to Candela.
Julieta Serrano plays Lucía, Ivan’s ex-wife, recently released from a mental hospital, who is coming to confront Pepa at gunpoint and to kill Ivan.