​Rueda was born in Madrid. Her father was a civil engineer and her mother was a ballet instructor. She is the second of three children; her siblings are named Chus and Violeta (Ms. Rodal). She and her family moved to San Juan, Alicante when she was a child because of her younger sister's asthmatic problems. She was married to Daniel Écija and had three children with him, Beliá (b.1994), María (b.1996) and Lucía (b.1998); unfortunately, their second child died of a heart disease as a baby. She is now a divorcée. When Rueda was 18 years old she moved to Madrid to study architecture, but she left the university when she met an Italian man whom she later married. Rueda returned to Madrid and worked as a salesperson and a model until she finally became a TV presenter. After that she worked as an actress on television, including the show Los Serrano, and eventually acted in films. She won a Goya Award in 2004 for her role as Julia in Mar Adentro (The Sea Inside). She received another Goya nomination for her role in the 2007 film, The Orphanage. Rueda played the lead role of the Spanish thriller Los ojos de Julia, which is produced by Guillermo Del Toro.

Фільмографія

• 2026A Sucker's Born Every Minute — Carmen
• 2026Evil Dress — Alicia
• 2025Death at a Funeral — Edurne
• La agencia — Belén Rueda
• 2025Los Muértimer
• 2025Reversion
• 2024Asesinatos sólo en El Hormiguero — Belén Rueda
• Eva & Nicole — Nicole
• 2024Free Falling — Marisol
• 2023Phenomena — Sagrario
• 2023The Chapel — Carol
• The Cry of the Butterflies — Pilar Macías
• 2022La Palma: el último volcán — Narrator
• 2021The Perfect Family — Lucía
• 2021The Tenant
• Madres: amor y vida — Marián Ballesteros
• Las que faltaban — Invitada
• 2019Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City — Alba
• 2018Sara's Notebook — Laura
• 2018The Pact — Mónica
• 2018You Shall Not Sleep — Alma Böhm
• 2018Під час грози — Dr. Sardón
• 2017Broken Basket
• 2017Orbiter 9 — Silvia
• 2017Perfect Strangers — Eva
• The Embassy — Claudia
• 2016The Night My Mother Killed My Father — Isabel
• 2015Una vez — Chila
• B&b, de boca en boca — Candela Bermejo
• 20137th Floor — Delia
• 2013Ismael — Nora
• 2013Strings — Maestra (voice)
• The Witches of Calenda — Sara Cruz
• 2012Тіло — Mayka Villaverde
• 2011Don't Be Afraid — Silvia's Mother
• Корабель — Leonor
• 2010For the Good of Others — Isabel
• 2010La princesa de Éboli — Princesa de Éboli
• La princesa de Éboli — Ana de Mendoza
• 2010Прозріння — Julia Levin / Sara
• 2009Spanish Movie — Laura
• 20088 Dates — Elena
• 2007Savage Grace — Pilar Durán
• 2007Притулок — Laura
• 2004Море всередині — Julia
• Los Serrano — Lucía Gómez
• 2001Retruc — Elsa
• El Club de la Comedia — Monologuista
• Periodistas — Clara Nadal
• La ruleta de la suerte
• Amor de Dios — Sara Lanes
• En el círculo del asesino

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (9)

• Late Xou con Marc Giró — Self - Guest
• 202219 — Herself
• B.S.O. con Emilio Aragón — Self - Invitada
• La Noche D — Self - Guest
• Estirando el Chicle — Herself
• 2018Querido Fotogramas — Self
• Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez — Self - Guest, Self (archive footage)
• Planeta Calleja — Self - Guest
• El hormiguero — Self - Guest