María Valverde

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Valverde and the second or maternal family name is Rodríguez.

María Valverde
File:María Valverde - Seminci 2012 (1).jpg María Valverde in 2012
Born	María Valverde Rodríguez (1987-03-24) 24 March 1987 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2003–present
Website	www.mariavalverde.net

María Valverde Rodríguez (born March 24, 1987) is a Spanish actress. She won a Goya Award for her film debut, La Flaqueza del Bolchevique.

Life and career

She was born in Carabanchel, Madrid. At the age of 16 she starred in The Weakness of the Bolshevik, for which she won the 2003 Goya Award for Best New Actress.

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, as well as co-starring with Eva Green in the 2009 independent British drama film Cracks, produced by Ridley Scott and directed by his daughter, Jordan Scott.

Valverde appeared in the 2014 film Exodus: Gods and Kings playing Zipporah, directed by Ridley Scott, alongside Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, and Ben Kingsley.

In 2015, she played the lead in the drama Broken Horses, co-starring with Anton Yelchin, she also features in 400 Boys, which will be released in 2016.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2003	The Weakness of the Bolshevik	María	La flaqueza del bolchevique Goya Award for Best New Actress
2003	Cuando nadie nos mira	Anna	Short film
2004	Body Confusion	Cuca	Fuera del cuerpo
2005	Vorvik	Sofía
2005	Melissa P.	Melissa Panarello
2006	The Borgia	Lucrecia Borgia	Los Borgia
2006	Válido para un baile		Short film
2007	Thieves	Sara	Ladrones
2007	The King of the Mountain	Bea	El rey de la montaña
2007	Las lágrimas del cisne		Short film
2007	The Sandman	Lola	El hombre de arena
2008	The Anarchist's Wife	Manuela	La mujer del anarquista
2009	Cracks	Fiamma Coronna
2010	Three Steps Above Heaven	Babi	Tres metros sobre el cielo
2011	Madrid, 1987	Ángela
2012	La fuga	Anna Serra	TV series (12 episodes)
2012	The Cold Call	Inés	A puerta fría
2012	I Want You	Babi	Tengo ganas de ti
2013	Hermanos	Virginia Rodríguez	TV series (6 episodes)
2013	The Mule	Conchi	La mula
2013	The Liberator	Maria Theresa Bolivar	Libertador
2014	Tú y yo	Laura	Short film
2014	Exodus: Gods and Kings	Zipporah
2014	A Lonely Sun Story	Linda	Short film
2015	Broken Horses	Vittoria
2015	Ahora o nunca	Eva
2015	¿Y tú por qué viajas?		Short film
2016	La carga	Elisa
2016	Ali and Nino	Nino Kipiani
2016	400 Boys	Paiva
2016	Gernika	Teresa	Post-production

External links

• Official Website
• María Valverde at the Internet Movie Database