Norma Ruíz Izquierdo

Norma Ruiz Izquierdo (Madrid, June 9, 1982) is a Spanish actress known for playing Bárbara Ortiz in Yo soy Bea. Biography Norma is the youngest of four sisters. As a child she aspired to be a professional dancer. One of her sisters, a dance teacher, taught her to dance sevillanas when she was four years old and at the age of eight she entered a dance school. It was in the company of Miliki and Rita Irasema where she performed her first work, El flautista de Hamelin, which she performed for a year. She then entered the conservatory to learn Spanish dance. Antonio Canales and José Racero chose her for some shows, performing -for example- at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. At the age of 19, an injury took her away from the world of dance, although she decided to continue dancing for a while in musicals to pay for her acting career. She then decided to enroll in the TAI University Arts Center in Madrid. In her last year she got the opportunity, thanks to the direction students of the same center, to participate in the cheapest movie of the Spanish cinema: La fiesta, which only cost 6000 euros in 2003. Later she participated in the independent The tester, by Fernando Núñez Herrera. In 2010, she released La herencia Valdemar and the comedy Tensión sexual no resuelta and in 2011 La herencia Valdemar II: La sombra prohibida. She also participated in plays and musicals such as Sonrisas y lágrimas, Al compás son seis, Aires tradicionales, Esta noche hay que matar a Franco, Stabat mater, Por los pelos and El tiempo y los Conway.