María Valverde

What strikes me about Maria Valverde is how early the recognition came. Winning the Goya Award for Best New Actress in 2004 for her feature debut in The Weakness of the Bolshevik is the kind of validation most actors chase for years, and she had it almost out of the gate. I find it telling that she lists herself as an actor and a musician both; that dual creative pull usually signals someone who resists being boxed in. Born in Madrid in 1987, she has stayed reachable through her own site and social channels rather than vanishing behind a publicist, which reads as a deliberate, grounded choice to me.

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Name (English)

María Valverde

Name (Japanese)

マリア・バルベルデ

Reading

まりあ・ばるべるで

Born

March 24, 1987 (age 39)

Origin

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Occupation

actor / film actor / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rabbit

Awards & achievements

• 2004 Goya Award for Best New Actress

• Official sitehttps://www.mariavalverde.net/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/soylavalverde/
• Xhttps://x.com/mariavalverde
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa%20Valverde
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%AB%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%83%87
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242281

Tags

• Community of Madrid
• actor
• film actor
• musician

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.