Manuela "Nela" Álvarez-Rocha (November 9, 1919 – March 6, 2009) was a Filipina softball athlete and film actress who usually played a mother role in LVN Pictures.

In the late 1930s, before the onset of World War II, American-occupied Philippines had an insatiable appetite for movies, which led to the formation of LVN Pictures and other film studios.

Alvarez did not act again until 1948, when she was featured in Sierra Madre: Bundok ng Hiwaga with Leopoldo Salcedo and Vida Florante.

She met her husband, Jose P. Rocha, at a softball game in 1935, and three years later, she eloped with him and got married at the Manila Cathedral.

She was the maternal grandmother of Filipino actor Niño Muhlach, whose lineage on his father's side is also heavily involved in the Philippine acting industry.