As an actress, she had leading roles in numerous films, including Imperial Violets (1952), Academy Award nominee Vengeance (1958), Don Juan (1956), and Searching for Monica (1962).

[4] After the Spanish Civil War, the family moved to Madrid, where her father and grandfather worked as lyricists for the films of Concha Piquer and Imperio Argentina.

In fact, at the age of twelve she went on stage for the first time with Estrellita Castro, with the show Rapsodia española, starring Paquita Rico.

[4] Sevilla made her film debut in 1946 with the documentary Hombres Ibéricos and with a supporting role in Serenata española in 1947.

She released over fifteen studio albums, with many songs composed by her then husband Augusto Algueró, including coplas, boleros, and tangos, and performed them on stage and television.

[11] On 3 January 1965, she made her first appearance on American television on The Ed Sullivan Show, where she performed live the songs "Mis noches de Madrid" and "Estando contigo", both composed by Algueró.

[15] In 1991, at the age of sixty, she began a new career as a television presenter working in different shows and specials for the three major Spanish networks until her retirement in 2010.

[a][16] Carmen Sevilla married composer and conductor Augusto Algueró, whom she met in 1956 during the filming of The Taming of the Shrew, on 23 February 1961 in the Zaragoza's Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar.