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Also Known As Pedro Mercedes Almodóvar Caballero
Born September 25, 1949 (age 75) • Spain
Awards And Honors Academy Award (2003)
Notable Works “All About My Mother” • “Bad Education” • “Broken Embraces” • “Pain and Glory” • “Parallel Mothers” • “Talk to Her” • “The Human Voice” • “Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!” • “Volver” • “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown”

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