María Valverde
Birthday: Born in 1987-03-24 in Madrid, Spain
Deathday: Alive
María Valverde Rodríguez (born March 24, 1987) is a Spanish actress. She was born María Valverde Rodriguez in Carabanchel, Madrid. She was 16 when she got a leading role with Luis Tosar in a Manuel Martín Cuenca movie, La flaqueza del bolchevique, she won the 2003 Goya Award for this role. She has also taken part in several films, such as Melissa P., a film based on the polemic book One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed by Melissa Panarello. Description above from the Wikipedia article María Valverde, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Silenci?
Character:
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Hermanos
Character: Virginia Rodríguez
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La fuga
Character: Anna Serra
A woman puts her life at risk by infiltrating a maximum security prison in order to help her husband escape....
El hormiguero
Character: Self
El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 12...
La resistencia
Character: Invitada
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Movie Credits
Thieves
Character: Ladrona
The main character is a nameless boy (Juan Jose Ballesta) who was taught to steal wallets by his absent mother. He is able to do the trick effortlessly, using his "earnings" to survive while he looks for his mom. As he runs into an antique store owner, he might have found a trace that will lead to her. First, however, he will have to pull off a few "jobs" for the store owner, and he can't do it alone: enter a nameless girl (Maria Valverde) who gets to learn all the secret techniques the young bo...
Melissa P.
Character: Melissa P.
An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way....
Cracks
Character: Fiamma
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student....
The King of the Hill
Character: Bea
Quim drives around an isolated rural area through a maze of lanes. When he drives into the woods, he gets lost. Trying to find his direction, he suddenly gets shot from the hill. On his escape from gunshots, he meets Bea, an attractive young woman, who apparently is lost as well. Suspicious of each other, they join forces to run away through the forest, unprotected, cold, hunted......
The Borgia
Character: Lucrecia Borgia
A portrait of the bloody dynasty that spawned a pope, Alexander VI, as well as the role model for Machiavelli's “The Prince,” his son Cesare Borgia, and a legend of femme duplicity, daughter Lucrezia Borgia....
The Weakness of the Bolshevik
Character: María
After getting into a minor traffic accident, Pablo attempts to make light of the situation by asking the driver of the other car, Sonsoles, out on a date. When she refuses and instead files an injury report, Pablo snaps and begins stalking her. He soon discovers that Sonsoles has a beautiful teenage sister, Maria, with whom Pablo is immediately infatuated -- a lust that soon turns dark. Can Pablo control his obsession, or will it consume him?...
The Sandman
Character: Lola
Two love birds fly out of the cuckoo's nest in a stirring Spanish romance of mad love and doomed passion....
Three Steps Above Heaven
Character: Babi
Story of two young people who belong to different worlds. It is the chronicle of a love improbable, almost impossible but inevitable dragging in a frantic journey they discover the first great love. Babi is a girl from upper-middle class that is educated in goodness and innocence . Hache is a rebellious boy, impulsive, unconscious, has a appetite for risk and danger embodied in endless fights and illegal motorbike races, the limit of common sense...
Madrid, 1987
Character: Ángela
In 1987 Madrid, the unexpected encounter between a seasoned journalist and a young student leads to a profound exploration of love, desire, politics, power, and discovery of each other....
El último truco
Character: Self
Documentary film about visual effects master Emilio Ruiz del Rio. From his early works on films at 1942, to his last contribution at 2007, Emilio Ruiz talks on his film experiences and traditional trickery, using foreground miniatures, glass shots, and painted cut out miniatures. It shows interviews with some of the professionals he has worked with, like, Rafaela de Laurentiis, Ray Harryhausen, Guillermo del Toro, or Enzo Castellari...
I Want You
Character: Babi
The sexy Gin is the new love of Hache, but this can not forget his former girlfriend, so the love triangle is inevitable....
The Liberator
Character: María Teresa Bolívar
Bolívar was instrumental in Latin America’s struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most influential politicians and emancipators in American history. Libertador is told from the viewpoint of Bolívar, portrayed by Ramírez, about his quests and epic military campaigns, which covered twice the territory Alexander the Great conquered, and his vision to unify South America....
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Character: Séfora
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues....
The Cold Call
Character: Inés
The story of salesman Salvador Lozano and his ambiguous relationship with young hostess Inés....
The Mule
Character: Conchi
A soldier protects a mule during the Spanish Civil War....
The Anarchist's Wife
Character: Manuela
"The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years, pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again....
You and I
Character: Laura
During an imaginary tour of David Bisbal, a young woman happens to take refuge in his caravan. That unexpected encounter brings about some emotional consequences that will mark the artist's life forever....
The Load
Character: Elisa
Late sixteenth century. A Tameme Indian man and a noble Spanish woman flee through the forests of the New World in search of freedom. Their frantic journey softens the tension between them and dissolves their longstanding differences and creates intimate bonds that threaten their very survival....
It's Now or Never
Character: Eva
Narrates the preparation for a wedding of a Spanish couple in which everything goes wrong....
Cuando nadie nos mira
Character: Anna
In a near futures a young woman, Anna, suffers a progressive addiction to a drug which begins to have bizarre side-effects, threatening to ruin the already tenuous relationship she has with her mother. With communication almost non-existent, her mother decides to take an extraordinary step to restore Anna's innocence....
Broken Horses
Character: Vittoria
The bonds of brotherhood, the laws of loyalty, and the futility of violence in the shadows of the US Mexico border gang wars....
A Lonely Sun Story
Character:
When Linda can't find a solution to her problems, she decides to run away, but a stranger event will cause her to meet a peculiar boy, Óscar, with whom she will live an experience that will change both of their lives forever....
Guernica
Character: Teresa
The fates of Henry - an American correspondent - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors during the Spanish Civil War....
Ali and Nino
Character: Nino Kipiani
Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other....
The Limehouse Golem
Character: Aveline Ortega
A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible....
Back to Burgundy
Character: Alicia
Jean left his hometown ten years ago. When his father falls ill, he comes back and reunites with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie. As seasons go by around their vineyard, they'll have to trust each other again....
Galveston
Character: Carmen
After a violent encounter, Roy finds Rocky and sees something in her eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees to Galveston, an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable....
Body Confusion
Character: Cuca
Bruno, a young traffic agent of the Spanish Guardia Civil, is abandoned by his wife after having an affair. Bruno, devastated, discovers one night, by chance, a strange passageway that leads him to another level of reality....
Vorvik
Character: Sofía
The president of a major biogenetic laboratory crazy for a board and falls down dead. His daughter Sofia inherited, just eighteen years a true empire, and make it impossible to discover the cause of the strange death of his father....
Diving
Character: Paz Aguilera
A restless photographer leaves her family to "find herself" and takes up deep-sea diving....
Sexo en el plató
Character: Herself
How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prepare and feel? Spanish actors and directors talk about the most intimate side of acting, about the tricks and work methods when narrating exposed sex. In Spain the general rule is that there are no rules. Each film, each interpreter, faces it in very different ways....
Spider
Character: Young Inés
Three friends are part of a fascist opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever....
Fever Dream
Character: Amanda
A woman named Amanda lies stricken, far from home. A young boy named David questions her, trying to make her remember. She's not his mother, he's not her son. As her time is running out, he helps her unravel a powerful, haunting story of obsessive jealousy, an invisible danger, and the power of a mother's love for her child....
Sounds Like Love
Character: Maca
Fashion assistant Maca has just about got her life together after a devastating breakup, when Leo, the man who broke her heart returns. Seeking support from best friends, Adriana and Jime, all three will learn love can be complicated....