Cecilia Freire

Cecilia Freire Peñas (born 17 November 1981) is a Spanish actress best known for playing Blanca Román on Física o Química (2008–2009) and Rita Montesinos on Velvet (2014–2016).

In 2011 she shot another short, Aunque todo vaya mal, the directing debut of the actress Cristina Alcázar [es], who had joined Física o Química to play Marina, the new philosophy professor, just after Freire left.

Rita is a seamstress in the Galleries, who along with her friends Ana (Paula Echevarría) and Luisa (Manuela Vellés) and her sister Clara (Marta Hazas) are known as the "Velvet girls".

[5] In November 2016 she played Inma in the film Don't Blame the Karma for Being an Idiot, a comedy directed by Maria Ripoll based on Laura Norton's homonymous novel.

[6] Since 2018 she has starred in the TVE series La otra mirada, where she shares the screen with actresses such as Macarena García, Patricia López Arnaiz, and Ana Wagener.