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Carmen Maura
Highest Rated: 100% Law of Desire (1987)
Lowest Rated: 4% Hemingway's Garden of Eden (2008)
Birthday: Sep 15, 1945
Birthplace: Madrid, Spain
Actress Carmen Maura worked for over a dozen years in film and television in her native Spain before breaking through to international audiences with 1988's award-winning "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." It was one of eight films in which Maura was directed by Pedro Almodovar and an ideal showcase of her ability to carry a film with commanding presence, raw emotion, and campy wit. She also made a mark for her daring artistic choices, going beyond the taboo of playing a liberated woman to take on risky roles like a transsexual or drug addicted nun. In the 1980s and 1990s, as Spain recovered from years of artistic oppression under dictator Francisco Franco, the team of Maura and Almodovar emerged as among the most respected figures in contemporary European cinema.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
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| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Como el Mar | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mi Otro Jon | Unknown (Character) | - | 2023 |
| 17% | 48% | Rainbow | Coco Cabrera (Character) | - | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chasing Wonders | Unknown (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 69% | 90% | Chasing Wonders | Unknown (Character) | - | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Historias de nuestro cine | Unknown (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Gente que viene y bah | Unknown (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In Family I Trust | Ángela (Character) | - | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Oh! Mammy Blue | Laura (Character) | - | 2018 |
| 71% | 33% | Seeds | Carmen (Character) | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sales gosses | Teresa (Character) | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Heap | Simone (Character) | - | 2017 |
| 20% | 36% | The Kids Are Back | Adelina (Character) | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El futuro ya no es lo que era | Carmen Segarra (Character) | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La vanité | Esperanza (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Les chaises musicales | Lucie (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | Un village presque parfait | Carmen (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La madre (The Mother) | Unknown (Character) | - | 2014 |
| 84% | 60% | Witching & Bitching | Graciana (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 71% | 63% | Paulette | Maria (Character) | $29.5K | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 5to B escalera derecha | Madre (Character) | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Sofía and The Stubborn Man | Sofía (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 38% | 37% | Let My People Go! | Rachel (Character) | $16.9K | 2011 |
| 67% | 67% | Service Entrance | Concepción Ramirez (Character) | $719.6K | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chicas | Pilar (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | Le Mac | La mère (Character) | - | 2010 |
| 71% | 70% | Tetro | Alone (Character) | $438.4K | 2009 |
| 4% | 19% | Hemingway's Garden of Eden | Madame Aurol (Character) | $22.1K | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | La Virgen negra | Sra. Isabel (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Make It Look Like an Accident | Pilar (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | The Lesser Evil | Julia (Character) | - | 2007 |
| 91% | 89% | Volver | Abuela Irene (Character) | $12.9M | 2006 |
| 26% | 35% | Free Zone | Mrs. Breitberg (Character) | $32.4K | 2005 |
| 45% | 60% | Queens | Magda (Character) | $139.4K | 2005 |
| 78% | 79% | Al otro lado | Unknown (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | 25 Degrees in Winter | Abuelita (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Between Living and Dreaming | Ana (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | The Promise | Celia (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Searching for Love (Entre vivir y soñar) | Unknown (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | The Pact of Silence | Mère Emmanuelle (Character) | - | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Arroz y tartana | Doña Manuela de Fora (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 45% | 61% | 800 Bullets | Laura (Character) | $866 | 2002 |
| 62% | 93% | Valentín | Abuela (Character) | $275.4K | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Assassini dei giorni di festa (Killers on Holiday) | Unknown (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Le Ventre de Juliette | Julia (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hold-Up | Maite (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Clara y Elena | Elena (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | Common Wealth | Julia (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Harem of Madame Osmane | Madame Osmane (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | To the End of the Road | Concha (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Lisbon | Berta (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | The Comet | Lupe (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 62% | 48% | Alice and Martin | Jeanine Sauvagnac (Character) | $498.1K | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Enthusiasm | Maria (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tortilla and Cinema | Carmen Maura (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 50% | No Score Yet | Women | Linda (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | King of the River | Carmen (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El palomo cojo | Tía Victoria (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Una Pareja de Tres | Ana (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 81% | Happiness Is in the Field | Dolores Thivart (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shadows in a Conflict | Ana (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Louis, the Child King | Anne d'Autriche (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sombras en una batalla | Ana (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cómo ser infeliz y disfrutarlo | Carmen (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sur la terre comme au ciel (Between Heaven and Earth) | Unknown (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Between Heaven and Earth | Unknown (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | How to Be a Woman and Not Die Trying | Unknown (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chatarra | Zabú (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La Mujer de Tu Vida | Marisa Novoa (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | Ay, Carmela! | Carmela (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 92% | 89% | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Pepa Marcos (Character) | $5.2M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baton Rouge | Isabel Harris (Character) | - | 1988 |
| 100% | 82% | Law of Desire | Tina Quintero (Character) | - | 1987 |
| 93% | 78% | Matador | Julia (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tata mía | Elvira (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sé infiel y no mires con quién | Carmen (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Extramuros | Sor Ana (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 76% | 69% | Dark Habits | Sor Perdida (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 78% | 81% | What Have I Done to Deserve This? | Gloria (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven | Begoña (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 43% | 64% | Pepi, Luci, Bom | Pepi (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Man of Fashion | Carmen (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Blindfolded Eyes | La enfermera (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paper Tigers | Carmen (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La petición | Chica (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El love feroz o Cuando los hijos juegan al amor | Unknown (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Killer is One of Thirteen | Laura (Character) | - | 1974 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Land of Women | Julia (Character) | 2024 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Someone Has to Die | Amparo (Character) | 2020 |