Elisa Ruiz Penella (born December 15, 1934 in Granada), known as Elisa Montés, is a Spanish actress who took her pseudonym from the celebrated work of her grandfather, Manuel Penella, El gato montés.
Montés is the sister of actresses Emma Penella (1930–2007) and Terele Pávez (1939), daughter of Magdalena Penella Silva and the law politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso, and granddaughter and great-granddaughter to composers Manuel Penella and Manuel Penella Raga. She was married to actor Antonio Ozores. The daughter of this marriage, Emma Ozores, has also dedicated herself to acting.
Since she was a child she dedicated herself to acting, debuting in the big screen in 1954 with the film Elena, by Jesús Pascual. Near then end of the 1950s she worked in the cinema and obtained notable roles, acting in La vida en un bloc by Luis Lucia, about the original text by Carlos Llopis, Ana dice sí (1959), by Pedro Lazaga, costarring Fernando Fernán Gómez and Analía Gadé, and La cuarta ventana (1963), by Julio Coll, costarring Montés’s two sisters.
In the 1960s, Montés frequently worked in co-productions and spaghetti-westerns, with titles like Samson and the Mighty Challenge (1964), El proscrito del Río
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