Gigí Ruá
Biography
Gigí Ruá (Gigí Vila Rúa) (Comodoro Rivadavia, March 10, 1955) is an Argentinean actress. He began his career as a model and mannequin due to his beautiful face, his huge green eyes and his slender figure. In the mid-seventies he began to work in television, standing out in cycles of Carlos Lozano Dana and Alma Bressán. In the Eighties its popularity continued in ascent, being the favorite of producers and directors of the time to interpret different roles of ingenuous women, evil or romantic heroines in the cinema, the television and the theater. In 1979 he represented Lucy in the theatrical success Dracula, directed by Sergio Renán and in 1981 he starred Boeng-Boeing in the Provincial theater of Mar del Plata with Osvaldo Miranda, Claudio García Satur and Paulina Singerman. At the end of the decade of 1980 and in full success of his career he had a son and took refuge in Uruguay for a few years. He returned in the early nineties excelling in roles increasingly committed. (Wikipedia translate)
Known For & Full Filmography13 Titles
Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.
Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes • as Lucía
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Abogada
The solitary life of Santos, a hermit and mysterious fisherman, is altered when three young men arrive to open a hostel near his beach. In an apparent calm, everything is getting complicated. They wait, calculate and all arrive at the appointment of a duel in which everything can fly through the air.
Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A group of boys and girls rents their bodies to people from high social strata.
Drama Series - 2000, 16 episodes • as Mariana Guimarães
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1994, 2h 15m • as Marina
A young businessman, owner of a major publishing house, is found shot to the head. Everything suggests a murder, since he was doing a journalistic investigation about a shady business.
Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Carolina
Looking for news of his ex-guerrilla sons, a man agrees to collaborate with his restaurant in a network of drug dealers.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Adriana
Julio Iglesias, internationally famous spanish singer, ends his Europe-wide tour in Paris. Before setting off to perform in America, decides to take a brief holiday in the quiet and peaceful Contadora Island in Panama. There, he meets Claudia, a german archaeology tour guide, for whom he'll start falling for, possibly jeopardizing the whole future of his concert tours.
Movie - 2005, 2h 15m • as May
Follow the adventures of Kiss of the Spider Woman scribe Manuel Puig portrayed by Fabio Aste, who left Argentina after being persecuted for his homosexuality and settled in exile in Rio de Janiero in this intimate drama from filmmaker Javier Torre. Though life in Rio was full of romance and adventure for Manuel, the controversy surrounding him grew ever more intense, until the only way out was a trip back to his native Argentina. In the years that followed, Puig eventually made the painful decision to move to Mexico, where he spent his final days until death caught up with him at the age of fifty-eight.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Amid chases, fights and shootings, three undercover agents proposed derail a band of gangsters and save a famous scientist who had been kidnapped.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
After filming the hippie professor Luis Sandrini filmed this sequel to the above, following the sanctions imposed on it by Professor Horacio Montesano, sending him to Patagonia to a secondary school. Among the supporting cast is the famous singer Piero (he even play many of their good songs).
Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as Emma
Buenos Aires, 1932. After a series of warning attacks from an enemy, a mafia boss decides to fake his own death and then strike back. Things don't go according to his plan.
Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An unscrupulous journalist confronts another journalist more idealistic than him.