* 1945 – Carmen Maura, Spanish actress

marked Almodóvar ’ s breaking-up with his long time star, Carmen Maura, in a rift that took many years to heal.

It had twice the audience of the most critically acclaimed Spanish film of that year, Carlos Saura ’ s ¡ Ay Carmela !, a film starring Almodóvar ’ s former muse Carmen Maura.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown () is a farcical 1988 Spanish film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas.

TV actress Pepa Marcos ( Carmen Maura ) is depressed and taking sleeping pills because her boyfriend Iván ( Fernando Guillén ) has just left her.

* Carmen Maura as Pepa Marcos

** Won: Best Actress – Leading Role ( Carmen Maura )

** Won: Best Actress – Leading Role ( Carmen Maura )

** Runner-up: Best Actress ( Carmen Maura )

His lead character Pepa Marcos ( Carmen Maura ), a voice artist, passes out while dubbing Vienna's voice in a scene where Johnny ( voiced earlier by Pepa's ex-lover Iván ) and she banter about their conflicted past.

The ensemble cast featured Jack Huston, Mena Suvari, Caterina Murino, Richard E. Grant, and Carmen Maura.

The trend is being reversed with the recent screening of productions such as the € 30 million film Alatriste ( starring Viggo Mortensen ), the Academy Award winning Spanish film Pan's Labyrinth ( starring Maribel Verdú ), Volver ( starring Penélope Cruz and Carmen Maura ), and Los Borgia ( starring Paz Vega ), all of them sold-out blockbusters in Spain.

* Carmen Maura as Mrs. Breitberg.

Starring Carmen Maura, Alaska and Eva Siva.

Performing with them in a small role in Dirty Hands by Jean Paul Sartre, Almodóvar met Carmen Maura and Félix Rotaeta, who encouraged him to make a film out of General Erections.

The initial budget was only 500 000 pesetas that Carmen Maura and Félix Rotaeta helped to collect.

Carmen Maura took the leading role of Pepi and Félix Rotaeta played the abusive policeman.

* Carmen Maura – Pepi

To name just a few: Willem Dafoe, Terry Gilliam, Anthony Hopkins, Aki Kaurismäki, Abbas Kiarostami, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Gregg Araki, John Malkovich, Carmen Maura, Rose McGowan, Frank Oz, Michel Piccoli, Robert Rodriguez, Susan Sarandon, Christian Slater, Alexander Sokurov, Wim Wenders and Gus Van Sant.

Since 2004, the Locarno Festival has been honoured to thus pay tribute to Oleg Menchikov, Susan Sarandon, John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Carmen Maura, Michel Piccoli, Toni Servillo and Chiara Mastroianni.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten had two daughters: Patricia Mountbatten, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma ( born on 14 February 1924 ), sometime lady-in-waiting to the Queen, and Lady Pamela Carmen Louise ( Hicks ) ( born on 19 April 1929 ), who accompanied them to India in 1947-48 and was also sometime lady-in-waiting to the Queen.

Carmen Miranda was born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha in Várzea da Ovelha e Aliviada, a village in the northern Portuguese municipality of Marco de Canaveses.

* Ricardo Lagos Weber ( born 1962 ), Chilean lawyer and politician, son of the ex-President Ricardo Lagos and Carmen Weber

* Carmen and Lupita Andrade-Solis, born in Mexico in 2000 with Dicephalus Tetrabrachius Dipus ( 2 heads, 4 arms and 2 legs ).

* Her Royal Highness Princess Catharina-Amalia Beatrix Carmen Victoria born 7 December 2003

* Her Royal Highness Princess Catharina-Amalia Beatrix Carmen Victoria born 7 December 2003

* Carmen Carrera ( born 1985 ), female impersonator / reality television personality who appeared on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 3.

Estrada was born in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, the son of Carmen, a seamstress, and Renildo Estrada.

Carmen Lourdes Dominicci Ramos ( born July 15, 1966 in Ponce, Puerto Rico ) is a news anchor, television reporter and PSA representative.

Carmine Basilio ( born April 2, 1927 ) better known in the boxing world as Carmen Basilio, is an American former professional boxer who was a two weight world boxing champion.

Carmen Amaya ( 2 November 1913 – 19 November 1963 ) was a flamenco dancer and singer, of gypsy origin, born in the Somorrostro slum of Barcelona, Spain, Vila Olímpica nowadays.

Maricarmen Regueiro also known as Maria del Carmen Regueiro, ( born 1966 ) is a Venezuelan actress.

* Carmen Romero Ferrer ( born 1950 ), Cuban discus thrower

Rita Hayworth ( born Margarita Carmen Cansino ; October 17, 1918May 14, 1987 ) was an American dancer and film actress who achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars.

Hayworth was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1918 as Margarita Carmen Cansino, the oldest child of two dancers.

Chris Pérez was born to Gilbert Pérez and Carmen Cadena and grew up in San Antonio, Texas.

Carmen Mary Lawrence ( born 2 March 1948 ) is a retired Australian politician ; a former Premier of Western Australia and the first woman to become Premier of a State of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Carmen Lawrence was born in Northam, in the agricultural district of Western Australia and spent her early childhood in the towns of Gutha and Dongara.

Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau ( given names: Catharina-Amalia Beatrix Carmen Victoria ; born 7 December 2003 ), is the first child of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, the heir apparent to the throne of the Netherlands, and Princess Máxima of the Netherlands, his spouse.

Several of the works of " Carmen Sylva " were written in collaboration with Mite Kremnitz, one of her maids of honor, who was born at Greifs-wald in 1857, and married Dr Kremnitz of Bucharest ; these were published between 1881 and 1888, in some cases under the pseudonyms Dito et Idem.

Carmen Kass ( born September 14, 1978 ) is an Estonian model.

Their daughter, Stella del Carmen Banderas Griffith, was born on September 24, 1996.

Orlando Cepeda was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, to Pedro Cepeda and Carmen Pennes.

Carmen Covito ( born 14 November 1948 in Castellammare di Stabia, Province of Naples ) is an Italian writer and translator.