Ruben Alves (born 9 January 1980) is a French-Portuguese actor, screenwriter, and director.

At 20, he became a full-time actor and initially played minor roles in French television productions and in some short films.

[2] His directorial debut, apart from a short film in 2002 'À l'abri des regards indiscrets', was in 2013 with the immigrant comedy La cage dorée.

The movie has been a great success in France and Portugal, and has also been followed by a number of other countries, including Australia.

[10] In 2018, he started working on an upcoming comedy called Miss, by producer-director Hugo Gelin with co-star model Alex Wetter as a young man who sets his heart on winning the Miss France contest.