Ruth Silveira

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

Filmes

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 (Tom Cruise), um jovem yuppie, fica sabendo que seu pai faleceu. Eles nunca se deram bem e não se viam há vários anos, mas ele vai ao enterro e, ao cuidar do testamento, descobre que herdou um Buick 1949 e algumas roseiras premiadas, enquanto um "beneficiário" tinha herdado três milhões de dólares. Curioso em saber quem herdou a fortuna, ele descobre que foi seu irmão Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), cuja existência ele desconhecia. Autista, Raymond é capaz de calcular problemas matemáticos com grande velocidade e precisão. Charlie sequestra o irmão da instituição onde ele está internado para levá-lo para Los Angeles e exigir metade do dinheiro, nem que para isto tenha que ir aos tribunais. É durante uma viagem cheia de pequenos imprevistos que os dois entenderão o significado de serem irmãos.
Minhas Duas Mulheres
Micki's Nurse
Jornalista de televisão é casado com advogada e tem caso com violoncelista. Ele gostaria de ser pai, mas não da maneira como foi. As duas mulheres engravidam ao mesmo tempo e ele passa nove longos meses garantindo a tranqüilidade das duas.
Lições Mortais
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.
And Baby Makes Six
Nurse #2
A middle-aged couple with three grown children discovers that they soon will be parents once more and faces a variety of emotional responses from friends and family.
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)
No século XXI, numa época em que as pessoas têm designações em vez de nomes, um homem, THX 1138, e uma mulher, LUH 3417, se rebelam contra sua sociedade rigidamente controlada.
The Strawberry Statement
Woman
A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals.