María Adánez

María Adánez Almenara (12 March 1976) is a Spanish actress, director, writer and producer.

Career Adánez's most popular works include Pepa y Pepe, Farmacia de guardia, Aquí no hay quien viva, and La que se avecina.

Television Between 1993 and 1994 Adánez played Maria, Kike's girlfriend, in the Farmacia de guardia series. In 1995 she would be known by the public for the role of Maria in Pepa y Pepe. She also played parts in Menudo es mi padre, Ellas son así, ¡Ay, Señor, Señor!, and Paraíso.

Between September 2003 and February 2006, she starred in the television series Aquí no hay quien viva, where she gave life to her character Lucía Álvarez, a young woman accustomed to having everything easy and having a job in her father's company. This role gave her great popularity and won her a Unión de Actores award for the best television star actress.

In 2007 she premiered the series Círculo rojo, where she played Patricia Villalobos, a 36-year-old girl who created a small company representing artists in Paris, but decides to abandon it because of the mysterious and tragic death of her sister. The show was cancelled in just a few weeks. At the end of 2008, she began starring in the humor series Maitena: Estados alterados, broadcast by La Sexta, interpreting a young matrimonial lawyer who tries to grow as a professional while supporting the problems of her mother, sister and co-workers. After the cancellation of this series, she decided to transition her career towards the theater for a time.

In 2011, she played a role in El secreto de Puente Viejo, playing Elvira de Castro, a woman of high class, who has a deformed child who dies during childbirth, so she steals the protagonist's son. She also performed a monologue in the second season of El club de la comedia.

She has also participated in humanitarian aid programs such as En movimiento..., issued by La 2.

Theater She debuted in the theater at 7 years old in the play Casa de muñecas, by Henrik Ibsen, versioned by Ana Diosdado. Later she participated in Los bosques de Nyx (1994) by Miguel Bosé.

Her next two works were comedies, and in both she played the role of a beautiful and naive young woman. In the first, premiered in 2003, she starred, along with Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, in the theatrical version of the film The Sleeping Prince, starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier. For this work she received the Ercilla and Larios awards as a revelation actress, was nominated by the Unión de Actores for the best actress in the theater, and was named Actriz Revelación Chivas. The second, premiered a year later, was La tienda de la esquina by Lander Iglesias. and in La señorita Julia. In 1982 she performed in the movie Loca por el circo and in 1983 in Vivir mañana, El currante and El Crack II.

As of 1998, she was valued as a promising actress of Spanish cinema, thanks to her participation in Time of Happiness, where she played a young woman who is influenced by the hippie culture of the seventies. A year after, she starred in Antonio del Real's Cha-cha-chá, where she played María.

Very active for the next ten years, in 2009 she appeared in Donald Petrie's Life in Ruins, where she played Lena, a sexy, newly divorced Spanish woman who decides to take a trip to Greece to forget her marriage. The director specifically searched in Spain for two actresses to play two women of the same nationality. At first, the writers were not going to include characters of this nationality, but the actors Javier Bardem or Penélope Cruz made him include them.

In May 2011, she began filming her first job as director, 5ºB Escalera Dcha, where she also works as a producer and scriptwriter. The project was born in 2010 after the death of her father.

Private life María Adánez is the daughter of the movie makeup artist Paca Almenara (who is married in a second marriage with Santiago Ramos). Her father died in 2010 due to a heart attack. In addition, she has two sisters, one of whom is married to soundman Sergio Burmann. Adánez married the British law graduate David Murphy in June 2010 on a private estate in Binibeca on the island of Menorca.

Filmography Film

Cabo de vara (1978) Loca por el circo (1982) Vivir mañana (1983) El currante (1983) El crack II (1983) Mar brava (1983) El rey del mambo (1989) El vuelo de la paloma (1989) Los peores años de nuestra vida (1994) La ley de la frontera (1995) Corazón loco (1997) El tiempo de la felicidad (1997) Perdón, perdón (1998) Cha-cha-chá (1998) El grito en el cielo (1998) Entre las piernas (1999) Rewind (1999) Tiempos de azúcar (2001) Todo menos la chica (2002) X (2002) El lápiz del carpintero (2003) Descongélate (2003) Tiovivo c. 1950 (2004) El Espantatiburones (2004) Dot.Com (2007) My Life In Ruins (2009) Menudas piezas (2024) Invasión (2024)

Television

Farmacia de guardia (1991) Pepa y Pepe (1995) Menudo es mi padre (1996) Los negocios de mamá (1997) Ellas son así (1999) Javier ya no vive solo (2002) Aquí no hay quien viva (2003–2006) Círculo rojo (2007) Estados alterados (2008–2010) El secreto de Puente Viejo (2011) La que se avecina (2013–2016)

Accolades Year Award Category Work Result 12nd Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Stage Actress in a Leading Role El príncipe y la corista 14th Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Television Actress in a Leading Role Aquí no hay quien viva