Ruth Gabriel

thumb|300px|Ruth Gabriel on Barrio Sésamo.
Ruth Gabriel (b. 1975) is a Spanish actress who played Ruth in the Spanish Sesame Street co-production Barrio Sésamo.
She was born Ruth Sánchez Bueno in San Fernando, Cádiz. She was cast in the 1981 TV series La Cometa Blanca, along with Mari Luz Olier and Alfonso Vallejo. At that time, her stage name was Ruth Abellán, and her character shared her first name.
In 1983, she again played a character named Ruth on Barrio Sésamo.
She returned to acting seven years later as an adult, appearing in the 1994 film Días Contados (1994). Directed by 
Imanol Uribe, co-writer, co-producer and director of the movie, rechristened her Ruth Gabriel and immediately cast her as Charo, a heroin-addicted teenage prostitute living in Madrid who meets and begins a relationship with an ETA member who has come to Madrid to commit terrorist acts. 
For her work on the film, Ruth Gabriel won the Newcomer Award of the Spanish Actors Union, defeating Elvira Mínguez and Candela Peña (for the same movie), and also won the Ondas Award, tied with both of her partners for the movie. She was nominated for both Best New Actress and Lead Actress Award of the IX edition of the Goyas, the most prestigious film awards in Spain. Again, she won Best New Actress defeating Mínguez and Peña, and was given her award by Sergio Cabrera and Cristina Marcos. She lost the lead actress award to Cristina Marcos who was nominated for Todos los hombres sois iguales (1994).
Suddenly a star, Ruth Gabriel was offered many roles. During 1995, she worked on Sinais of fogo, a coproduction of Spain, Portugal and France, and was directed by Antonio Eceiva in Felicidades Tovarich.
She worked from 1996 to 1998 on the TV series Querido maestro. During 1997, she appeared in the miniseries Nostromo, featuring Colin Firth. Nostromo was nominated for the ALMA Award for Outstanding Latino/a Cast in a Made-for-Television Movie or Mini-Series. In the same year, she also appeared in a role in Enrico Colletti's Il Tocco: la sfida, a Spanish-Italian coproduction starring Franco Nero.
She also had a chance to work with acclaimed director Agustí Villaronga in 99.9 and again in the 2002 film Sinfín.
In 1998, she appeared in Doña Bárbara as Marisela, the daughter of Doña Bárbara, and made an appearance as herself in According to Occam's Razor (1999). In 2003, she appeared in projects such as the miniseries La Mari and Historia de Estrella. She worked with director Rafael Alcázer on Besos de gato.
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Category:International Sesame Street Actors