Costume & Make-Up

Montse Ribé

Born January 1, 1972 · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (age 54)

Montse Ribé (born 1972) is a Spanish make-up artist and actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Makeup for her work in Pan's Labyrinth (2006). She portrayed young Hellboy in the movie Hellboy II: The Golden Army. She was one of 115 people invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2007.

Known For

Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth · 2006

Pan's Labyrinth

MovieFantasyDrama

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.

The Impossible

The Impossible · 2012

MovieDramaThriller

In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Hellboy II: The Golden Army · 2008

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

MovieFantasyAction

Hellboy, his pyrokinetic girlfriend, Liz, and aquatic empath, Abe Sapien, face their biggest battle when an underworld elven prince plans to reclaim Earth for his magical kindred. Tired of living in the shadow of humans, Prince Nuada tries to awaken an ancient force of killing machines, the all-powerful Golden Army, to clear the way for fantasy creatures to roam free. Only Hellboy can stop the dark prince and prevent humanity's annihilation.

The Skin I Live In

The Skin I Live In · 2011

The Skin I Live In

MovieDramaHorror

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

The Invisible Guest

The Invisible Guest · 2017

The Invisible Guest

MovieDramaMystery

Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.

Crimson Peak

Crimson Peak · 2015

MovieHorrorMystery

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

Agora

MovieAdventureDrama

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.

Society of the Snow

Society of the Snow · 2023

Society of the Snow

MovieDramaHistory

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

Filmography

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Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth · 2006

Pan's Labyrinth

MovieFantasyDrama

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

The Impossible

The Impossible · 2012

MovieDramaThriller

In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Hellboy II: The Golden Army · 2008

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

MovieFantasyAction

Hellboy, his pyrokinetic girlfriend, Liz, and aquatic empath, Abe Sapien, face their biggest battle when an underworld elven prince plans to reclaim Earth for his magical kindred. Tired of living in the shadow of humans, Prince Nuada tries to awaken an ancient force of killing machines, the all-powerful Golden Army, to clear the way for fantasy creatures to roam free. Only Hellboy can stop the dark prince and prevent humanity's annihilation.

Makeup Effects Designer

The Skin I Live In

The Skin I Live In · 2011

The Skin I Live In

MovieDramaHorror

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

The Invisible Guest

The Invisible Guest · 2017

The Invisible Guest

MovieDramaMystery

Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Crimson Peak

Crimson Peak · 2015

MovieHorrorMystery

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

Makeup Effects Designer

Agora

MovieAdventureDrama

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.

Makeup Effects Designer

Society of the Snow

Society of the Snow · 2023

Society of the Snow

MovieDramaHistory

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

A Monster Calls

A Monster Calls · 2016

A Monster Calls

MovieFantasyAdventure

12-year-old Conor encounters an ancient tree monster who proceeds to help him cope with his mother's terminal illness and being bullied in school.

Makeup Effects

Sex and Lucía

Sex and Lucía · 2001

MovieDramaRomance

Lucía is a young waitress in Madrid who seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island after the loss of her longtime boyfriend. Amidst the fresh air, dazzling sun, and glistening deep blue water, Lucía begins to piece together the dark corners of her past relationship.

Makeup Effects Designer

The Body

The Body · 2012

MovieThrillerMystery

A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.

Makeup Effects

The Orphanage

The Orphanage · 2007

MovieHorrorDrama

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Cell 211

Cell 211 · 2009

MovieActionThriller

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

Makeup Effects

Talk to Her

Talk to Her · 2002

MovieDramaRomance

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

Makeup Effects Designer

Bad Education

Bad Education · 2004

MovieDramaCrime

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

Makeup Effects Designer

Parallel Mothers

Parallel Mothers · 2021

Parallel Mothers

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

Special Effects

Pain and Glory

Pain and Glory · 2019

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

Special Effects

[REC]⁴ Apocalypse

[REC]⁴ Apocalypse · 2014

[REC]⁴ Apocalypse

MovieThrillerHorror

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

Animatronic and Prosthetic Effects

Biutiful

Biutiful · 2010

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

Makeup Effects Designer

32 Malasana Street

32 Malasana Street · 2020

32 Malasana Street

MovieDramaHorror

Malasaña neighborhood, Madrid, Spain, 1976. While political turmoil ravages the streets all over the country, the Olmedo family arrives in the big city and settles into their new apartment. They soon discover that they are not the only ones roaming its corridors.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Painless

Painless · 2012

MovieDramaHorror

While searching for a solution to his serious health condition, David, a renowned neurosurgeon, discovers a sinister secret hidden in the past.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

The Nun

The Nun · 2005

MovieHorrorMystery

Years ago, a cruel and merciless nun turned a boarding school into a living hell for her students until they could no longer bear the abuse, and she mysteriously disappeared. Now the alumnae are being brutally murdered one by one.

Special Effects Key Makeup Artist

Julia's Eyes

Julia's Eyes · 2010

MovieHorrorThriller

Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her blind sister Sara hung in a basement. Despite all signs pointing to suicide, Julia decides to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Julieta

Julieta · 2016

MovieDramaRomance

The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.

Makeup Effects Designer