He has worked with directors such as Pedro Almodóvar, Álex de la Iglesia, Mario Camus, Carlos Saura, Fernando Trueba, José Luis Borau, Ricardo Larraín, André Techiné, Francis Ford Coppola, Pilar Miró and Fernando Colomo.
And she has received, among others, two European Film Awards for best actress, for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) and ¡Ay Carmela! (1990); the Silver Shell at the San Sebastian Festival in 2000 for La Comunidad or Best Actress at Cannes, shared with all the colleagues from Volver de Ella, in 2006.
He has also won four Goya Awards. Three of them as leading actress in La Comunidad (2000), ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988); and one as a supporting actress for Volver, in 2007.
He participated in television productions such as Novela, Las doce caras de Eva or Los libro, as well as in the short film El Espíritu, by Juan Tamariz, or films such as Un casto varón español (1973), by Jaime de Armiñán.
In the 1980s, he received a shower of hits under the direction of Pedro Almodóvar. Titles like Fuck…fuck…fuck me Tim! (1978), Pepi, Luci, Bom and other girls from the heap (1980) or What have I done to deserve this? (1984), made her the first ‘Almodóvar girl’, with whom she would work again in Entre tinieblas (1983), Matador (1986), La Ley del Desire (1987), Mujeres al verge of a nervous breakdown and Return.
He also collaborated with Carlos Saura in Blindfolded eyes (1978), and with Miguel Picazo in Extramuros (1985), as well as with Fernando Trueba in Be unfaithful and don’t look at who (1985).
One of her most important performances was in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), a film that would earn Pedro Almodóvar his first Oscar nomination and with which the actress won her first Goya and the Felix of the Film Awards. European.
The decade of the nineties was the definitive consecration for the actress in Spain, Europe and Latin America, starring in films such as ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990), by Carlos Saura; Shadows in a battle (1993), by Mario Camus; To live later (1997), by Carlos Galettini, or The enthusiasm (1998), by Ricardo Larraín.
In those years he began to participate in European films such as the French Louis XIV, Niño Rey (1993) or La alegría está en el campo (1995), which would mark the beginning of his idyll with the French public.
In the last decade he has worked on films such as Álex de la Iglesia’s The Witches of Zugarramurdi (2013), or the Colombian Sofía y el stubborn (2012), as well as on the small screen in series such as Cartas a Eva (2012), by Agusti Villaronga.
Maura will receive the Platinum Honor Award at a gala to be held in Madrid, presented by Lali Espósito and Miguel Ángel Muñoz, and which will be broadcast on television throughout Latin America.
Source: Ambito
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