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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1954-04-10

Place of Birth

Montevideo, Uruguay

Mirella Pascual

Biography

Mirella Pascual (Montevideo, April 10, 1954) is a Uruguayan film and theater actress, known for her work in the film Whisky. She has also ventured into Argentine cinema.

Known for

Love After Music

Love After Music

No one can and should live without love. This biographical series chronicles the life and career of passionate, iconic Argentine rock star Fito Páez.

Yosi, the Regretful Spy

Yosi, the Regretful Spy

An Argentinian intelligence agent goes undercover in the Jewish community to gather information, unwittingly preparing the ground for anti-Semitic terrorist attacks. Years later, he decides to bring the truth to light.

So Far, So Good

So Far, So Good

Ariel, a 50-year-old cartoonist with five kids and aging parents, faces a mid-life crisis, complicated by a hernia. His physical limits force him to reflect on freedom, family duties, and what matters most.

A Twelve-Year Night

A Twelve-Year Night

Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.

The Silence of the Sky

The Silence of the Sky

After being a victim of rape within their own home, Diana chooses to keep the trauma secret. Mario, her husband, also has something to hide. The silence takes the couple's account over the day turns gradually into a peculiar form of violence.

My Friend from the Park

My Friend from the Park

While her filmmaker husband works in Chile, harried young mother Liz struggles to take care of her infant son. Feeling out of place amongst the tight-knit group of other parents at the park, doubted by her husband, and judged by her newly hired nanny, Liz is drawn to factory worker Rosa, a plain-talking single mother she meets at the swings one day. Despite Liz’s liberation upon finding a bold new confidante, the friends’ increasingly apparent class differences, along with swirling rumors about Rosa’s motives and muddy family situation, feed Liz’s suspicions that her new pal might be a sinister influence on her already fragile life.

Dulce Violencia (aka Sweet Violence)

Dulce Violencia (aka Sweet Violence)

A family plans to murder their daughter’s killer after he is released from a twenty-year prison sentence. Still pleading innocence, the ex-convict tries to rebuild his life until the ghosts of the past return to haunt him

The Last Summer of La Boyita

The Last Summer of La Boyita

Young Jorgelina feels estranged from her boy-crazy older sister, who has entered adolescence and doesn't want to hang around with little kids anymore. Finding refuge in their Boyita camper-van, Jorgelina travels with her father to the countryside, where her lifelong playmate Mario is undergoing some unexpected changes.

Leo's Room

Leo's Room

Leo, a young man coming to terms with his own sexuality, runs into Caro, a primary school friend he fancied when they were kids, who's now trying to ward off her own personal demons. This casual re-encounter will affect their personal conflicts without either truly grasping the other's problem.

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet

Sebastian, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.

Nobody's Watching

Nobody's Watching

Nico is a famous actor in Argentina, but in New York, nobody takes notice. He needs to juggle bartending, babysitting and odd jobs to keep himself afloat. But when old friends from Buenos Aires come to visit, he needs to juggle the image of his old life with the reality of the struggling actor in New York City.

I Woke Up With a Dream

I Woke Up With a Dream

Felipe is a teenager from La Paloma who attends an acting workshop behind the back of his mother, who opposes him becoming an actor. When the opportunity arises to attend a casting in Montevideo, Felipe escapes by bus for the day, but when he succeeds and finds it necessary to extend his stay, his lie gets out of hand.

Whisky

Whisky

When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.

El padre de mis hijos

El padre de mis hijos

Eva isn't having the best time: her boyfriend dumped her overnight, for no apparent reason, and she's forced to move back in with her parents. She decides to have her first child, but she has no one to be with, and what begins as a worry turns into an obsession.

The Snatch Thief

The Snatch Thief

In the Argentinian city of Tucumán, Miguel is making a living as a “motochorro”, a thief who snatches people’s belongings fromhis motorbike. When he steals the purse of Elena, an old woman, he ends up hurting her badly. After the brutal incident, Miguel is plagued by guilt and unable to forget about his victim. In an attempt to make things right, he conceals his true identity from the old woman and starts to take care of the injured and unsuspecting Elena. The closer he gets to her the more he becomes entangled in his own lies. Afraid of telling Elena the truth, Miguel continues to be haunted by his past and is unable to find true redemption.