Ruth Silveira

Nacimiento : 1942-04-13, Sacramento, California, USA

Películas

Inland Empire
Moloi
Childhood friends Ian and Tim slowly realize that they’ve wasted their lives selling popcorn and participating in medical testing. Their hometown is a surreal nightmare, but they're too bored to notice.
A Grandpa for Christmas
Ruth Ortiz
An old-time movie-star singer/ hoofer rebonds with his estranged daughter and 9-year-old granddaughter.
Never Say Macbeth
Ghost Witch
Danny; a science teacher, tries to reunite with his ex-girlfriend Ruth, who has dumped him to become an actress in Hollywood. Stumbling into an LA theater during auditions asking: "Is this the audition for Macbeth?" he starts a series of unfortunate events that not only curse the production, but his ex-girlfriend as well, all but ruining his chance for love. Never Say Macbeth is a high-spirited no holds barred comedy about the biggest taboo in theater. Macbeth is believed to be cursed because it is the only Shakespeare play based on black magic and witchcraft, which is why this film, Never Say Macbeth, is also cursed.
Kisses in the Dark
Waitress
Four independent short films comprise this quirky anthology. "Coriolis Effect" (1994) is an offbeat love story involving storm chasers. In the Oscar-nominated "Solly's Diner" (1979), a homeless man (Larry Hankin, who also directs) witnesses a holdup. "Looping" (1991) satirizes independent moviemaking. And the dialogue-free "Joe" (1997) features David Aaron Baker as a psychiatric patient searching for enlightenment.
A Killer Among Us
Woman
Theresa is one of the twelve jurors who have to decide about a case of assassination. She believes very strongly in the innocence of the young man, but can't convince the others. During the discussions, she realizes that one member of the jury knows details that he couldn't know from the trial alone. Since no one believes her suspicions, she investigates on her own.
Rain Man
(voice)
Charlie Babbitt, un joven sin corazón, espera recibir una considerable herencia tras la muerte de su padre, del que estaba distanciado. Sin embargo, alguien a quien Charlie no ha tenido en absoluto en cuenta, su hermano mayor Raymond, recluido en una institución medica, recibe toda la fortuna del testamento. Raymond es un autista con capacidad mental limitada en algunos aspectos, pero con dotes de genio en otros.
Micki y Maude
Micki's Nurse
El reportero de televisión Rob Salinger quiere tener un hijo, pero su esposa Micki, demasiado ocupada con su trabajo, no está de acuerdo. Un día, Rob conoce a Maude y se siente atraído por ella. Como resultado de su relación, Maude se queda embarazada. Pero, cuando Rob, por esta razón, está a punto de abandonar a su mujer, descubre que también ella está embarazada. Entonces no tendrá más remedio que mantener esta doble relación, sin que ninguna de las dos mujeres sospeche ni remotamente de la existencia de la otra.
Deadly Lessons
Mrs. Hunt
A psycho is stalking the students at an exclusive girls' school.
Marian Rose White
Nurse Hartman
Marian Rose White is placed in a State Home for the feeble-minded by her uncaring mother when her father dies. She is a young teenager and there is nothing wrong with her except for some clumsiness, mostly caused by poor vision. State law (in 1934) requires sterilization of all inmates. Sympathetic nurse, Bonnie McNeil, befriends Marian and protests her treatment.
The Best Little Girl in the World
2nd Nurse
Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressures.
Y con el bebé somos seis
Nurse #2
Una pareja enfrenta un dilema cuando la esposa de 46 años inesperadamente queda embarazada. Ella quiere tener el bebé, pero su esposo tiene planes para el futuro que no implican criar a otro niño. Sus 3 hijos adultos, así como otros familiares y amigos, todos tienen sus propias opiniones sobre la situación. Su relación y su matrimonio en sí son probados mientras intentan resolver el conflicto.
Solly’s Diner
Waitress
A homeless street character (Larry Hankin) tries to get free food from the night waitress (Ruth Silvera) in Solly's Diner. His plea is interrupted by a desperate business man (Roger Bowen) who pulls a gun and demands all the money in the cash register.
A Question of Love
A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.
THX 1138
Announcer (voice)
La gente, en el futuro, vive en una sociedad totalitaria. Un técnico llamado THX 1138 lleva una vida mundana entre el trabajo y el consumo controlado de drogas que el gobierno utiliza para hacer de la gente unos títeres. Cuando THX decide dejar de tomar drogas, se enamora de una mujer y ambos comienzan una relación secreta. La primera película de George Lucas.
Fresas y sangre
Woman
El filme rescata la emoción de las rebeliones universitarias que sacudieron a Estados Unidos a finales de la década de los 60. Eran huelgas por cambios en las universidades y entre los paradigmas estaban la guerra contra Vietnam, Luther King, Mao, el Che y Robert Kennedy.