[1] Almudevar was born in London, England to a Spanish father, a psychiatrist, and a British-born mother, the child of emigre German Jews who survived the Holocaust.
[1] She took a sabbatical leave from the BBC in 2006, when she travelled to several Latin American countries, including Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and Argentina.
[1] She produced a number of news pieces while on sabbatical which focused on issues facing the region, including street children and a campaign to legalize the production of the coca leaf.
[1] Almudevar won an award for her work on Alexandra Road, a ten-part series that followed the lives of residents of a street in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, which she co-produced with fellow BBC journalist Brady Haran.
The taxi she was travelling in collided at night with the wreckage from a previous collision between lorries which had not been cleared off the main highway.