Ruth Gabriel is a Spanish actress who played Ruth in the Spanish Sesame Street co-production Barrio Sésamo. Ruth Sánchez Bueno was born on July 10th, 1975 in San Fernando, Cádiz (Spain). When she was five, during a visit to Prado del Rey with her class, she happened to be overheard quoting the sentence from Marilyn Monroe in Bus Stop: "My mouth was dry enough to spit cotton". She was cast in the 1981 TV series La Cometa Blanca, along with Mari Luz Olier and Alfonso Vallejo. At that time, Ruth's stage name was Ruth Abellán, and her character shared her first name. Lolo Rico, director of La Cometa Blanca, inserted sketches from Sesame Street in the series, in order to provide the young target audiences with a reference.