Celebrity Biographies
Maria Valverde
Not only is she one of the most popular young actresses in Spanish cinema, but María Valverde is also overflowing with expressiveness and freshness. Her career has only just begun, as she has the potential for great future achievements.
Born on March 24, 1987, María Valverde Rodríguez from Madrid discovered that acting was her thing as a child, because her cousin organized family performances. When she was a teenager she went to numerous castings, until she was chosen for an advertisement and to appear on the head of the television contest “What do we bet?”
He debuted on the big screen in La flaqueza del bolchevique , with which Manuel Martín Cuenca adapted the novel by Lorenzo Silva . She played an innocent but charming teenager who developed a rich friendship with a middle-aged man. Although she had the great Luis Tosar as a co-star , the young woman not only did not detract, but she was surprised by her freshness and strength on her screen. Not in vain, she obtained the Goya for the revelation actress for her work.
Subsequently, she studied acting at various schools of Dramatic Art, and took part in various films such as the bawdy Melissa P. , based on a controversial and scandalous autobiographical best-seller by the Italian Melissa Panarello. “I had no idea of Italian and they gave me a teacher six hours a day, seven days a week, for a month and a half. I worked hard, but the result was very good,” says the actress. She was also Lucrecia Borgia in Los Borgia , a thief in Ladrones , a wife waiting for her husband in La mujer del anarquista , and a lost girl in El rey de la montaña , a thriller that deserved better commercial luck.
María Valverde had a relationship with the actor Mario Casas , with whom she starred in the successful Three meters above the sky , adaptation of a best-seller by Federico Moccia. Both also headed the cast of the sequel, Tengo ganas de ti , and La mula , an unsuccessful adaptation of a novel about the Spanish Civil War by Juan Eslava Galán , which clearly accuses the director, Michael Radford , of leaving the set before finishing. the filming. The actress also shared the screen with the great José Sacristán in Madrid 1987 , by David Trueba , which is not up to expectations either.
Although he has not done much on television, he participated in the series La fuga . “I was surprised by the speed of filming, we were going super fast. I was used to being very methodical, thinking about everything a lot and that’s when it ended. It was like a master’s degree in acting,” explained the interpreter. She then signed on for a second cathodic project, Hermanos , where she plays one of the leads.