Daughter of the actor-singer Antonio Molina ( Surcouf, the tiger of the seven seas ), Angela Molinafirst launches in the Spanish classical dance, obtaining her diploma of teacher at the age of sixteen, before integrating the Higher School of Dramatic Art in Madrid. She started on the boards in The Dollhouse , then at the cinema in 1974, turning in No mataras , Las Protegidas and No quiero perder la honra .
This is his main role in this obscure object of desire , Luis Buñuel’s last film , which gives it access in 1977 to fame. She then works under the direction of Luigi Comencini forThe Great Bottling in 1978, Gillo Pontecorvo for Operation Ogre (1979), which traces the story of a group of Basque separatists under Franco or Marco Bellocchio for The Eyes, the mouth , a family drama of 1982.
Icon Spanish cinema, the actress multiplies filming both in her country and abroad. Thus, she shares the love of Christophe Malavoy and Bernard Giraudeau in Arm wrestling in 1985, becomes a peasant girl who thrives in L’Autre demi du cielthe following year before lending his features to a Mexican warring against the Apaches and the United States in River of gold . It is still question of the new continent, but this time of its discovery, in 1492: Christopher Columbus of Ridley Scott , which she turns with Gerard Depardieu in 1992. Three years later, she returns to the European continent, more specifically in Barcelona, becoming the victim of a secret admirer in Gimlet.Who says Spanish cinema, says Pedro Almodóvar , with whom she collaborates twice and thanks to whom she is nominated to the Goyas. First in In the flesh , becoming the instrument of aLiberto Rabal eager for revenge in 1997, then playing the mother of Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces in 2009. The French cinema is not left out since the actress tries to make live her small city, by maintaining opened the only cinema of the region, in Le Vent wins so much in 1999, before being married to Roschdy Zem in the policeman L’Origine du monde where she sees her husband haunted by his past.
