Cecilia Roth

Cecilia Roth attends the screening of ‘Ash Is Purest White (Jiang Hu Er Nv)’ during the 71st Cannes Film Festival at Palais on May 11, 2018 in Cannes, France. Denis Makarenko/Bigstock.com

Birth Name: Cecilia Edith Rotenberg Gutkin

Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date of Birth: 8 August 1956

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Cecilia Roth is a Spanish-Argentine actress. She began as an actress in Argentina, until 1976 when she fled the military dictatorship and moved to Spain. Roth has had great success in Spanish films in .

Her father, Abrasha Rotenberg, who emigrated to Argentina from the Soviet Union in the 1930s, is an editor and journalist; her mother, Dina Roth (née Gutkin Saposnik, born 1933), is an Argentinian singer. Her brother, Argentine musician Ariel Rot, is a former member of the Spanish-Argentine supergroup Los Rodríguez and lives in Spain.