Maribel Verdú

Acting

Maribel Verdú

Born

1970-10-02 (56)

Place of birth

Madrid, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

86 titles

María Isabel Verdú Rollán (born 2 October 1970), better known as Maribel Verdú, is a Spanish actress. She is the recipient of numerous accolades throughout her career spanning nearly four decades, including two Goya Awards for Best Actress, an Ariel Award for Best Actress, the Gold Medal of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain in 2008 and the National Cinematography Award in 2009. Verdú made her acting debut at the age of thirteen in Captain Sánchez's Crime (1985). Some of her film credits include performances in Lovers (1991), Belle Époque (1992), Y tu mamá también (2001), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), The Blind Sunflowers (2008), Tetro (2009), Snow White (2012) and Raymond …

Known for

El hormiguero poster
4.7

El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on September 17, 2007. The show won the Entertainment prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.

El hormiguero

2006

La resistencia poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

La resistencia

2018

Elite poster
8.0

When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between the wealthy and the poor students leads to tragedy.

Elite

2018

The Flash poster
6.6

When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. In order to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry's only hope is to race for his life. But will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?

The Flash

2023

Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez

2017

Pan's Labyrinth poster
7.8

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.

Pan's Labyrinth

2006

Film credits

2020s · 13 titles

The Flash poster
6.6

When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. In order to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry's only hope is to race for his life. But will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?

The Flash

2023

Under Your Feet poster
5.3

Isabel moves with her two children into a very prestigious building that has a very peculiar admission method but at a very affordable rental fee. Once approved and settled, three elderly neighbors from the lower floor will turn their lives upside down.

Under Your Feet

2026

Raymond & Ray poster
6.2

Half brothers Raymond and Ray reunite when their estranged father dies—and discover that his final wish was for them to dig his grave. Together, they process who they've become as men, both because of their father and in spite of him.

Raymond & Ray

2022

Go Team! poster
5.5

When their team-building event gets downgraded to a tiny village, a cheese company's staff think it can't get worse — then they learn about the layoffs.

Go Team!

2026

Death's Roulette poster
6.4

Seven strangers wake up in a mansion in the middle of nowhere to discover they are part of a twisted game. They will have 60 minutes to choose one person to die; otherwise, all of them will be murdered. As the clock ticks down, the most lurid secrets will come to light, and they’ll discover they are all connected by a dark past.

Death's Roulette

2023

A Deadly Invitation poster
5.7

Eccentric millionaire Olivia sends her half sister Agatha, and a group of old acquaintances, a mysterious invitation for a weekend on her yacht, where they will discover the true motive behind this invitation: the celebration of… a murder?

A Deadly Invitation

2023

Pet Shop Days poster
5.8

On the run from his unforgiving father in Mexico, Alejandro finds himself in New York City, where he meets Jack, a pet store employee with similar parental baggage. Together the two enter a whirlwind romance sending them down the rabbit hole of drugs and depravity in Manhattan’s underworld. When Alejandro’s past threatens to catch up with him, Jack is forced to choose between his family and a life on the run.

Pet Shop Days

2025

Double Plus Fifteen poster
4.1

Ana and Erik, two people apparently with opposite lives meet at a sex chat one day. She is an adult woman with a resolved life but has an existential crisis. He is a teenager with a whole life ahead of him with many unknowns.

Double Plus Fifteen

2020

Making The Flash: Worlds Collide poster
3.8

No synopsis available yet.

Making The Flash: Worlds Collide

2023

Stories Not to Be Told poster
5.8

Five tales of human vulnerability and the hilarious, painful, and awkward curveballs life throws us.

Stories Not to Be Told

2022

No artwork available
NR

Mar Ventura, a thanatologist with a deep aversion to the living, is persuaded by her sister Irene to join a safari in the heart of Africa. The situation takes a dramatic turn when, on the third day of the expedition, one of the members of the group is found dead.

Si los muertos hablaran

2027

The Year of Fury poster
6.4

Uruguay (1972) unavoidably falls into a terrible dictatorship. Diego and Leonardo, two writers of a well-known TV comedy show, struggle to maintain their integrity under the pressure they receive to tone down their political satires against the military. On the side of the oppressors, Rojas, the lieutenant in charge of torturing subversive youth, finds emotional refuge in Susana, a prostitute. Slowly, the lives of all of them are deeply impacted by the yoke of the dictatorship that looms over them.

The Year of Fury

2021

Familia poster
7.0

As a family discusses the future of their idyllic olive farm over a meal, the complexity of their relationships emerges through laughs and confessions.

Familia

2023

2010s · 16 titles

No Kids poster
6.5

Gabriel has been separated for four years now. Since then his 8 year old daughter is the center of his life. Completely avoiding getting involved in a new romantic relationship, Gabriel focus all his energy in his daughter and work. This plan gets spoiled when Vicky, a platonic love from his adolescence, now a beautiful and independent woman appears in his life. When romance is about to start, she puts one condition: She would never get involved with a man with children. She just does not want children in her life. When Gabriel is confronted with this, he says he has no children. From that moment on his life becomes a torment, playing every trick at hand in order to hide his child and belongings from Vicky in every date.

No Kids

2015

Abracadabra poster
5.3

A housewife struggles with her husband after he is possessed by a ghost.

Abracadabra

2017

Superlopez poster
5.6

Juan López must balance an office job with heroic feats to save the love of his life and native planet Chitón.

Superlopez

2018

The Goya Murders poster
5.0

Madrid, Spain. A mysterious serial killer murders art collectors and uses their bodies to reproduce scenes from Los Caprichos, a famous series of drawings by Spanish painter Francisco de Goya.

The Goya Murders

2019

Empowered poster
5.9

Paz seems to have a perfect life. She has a job, a partner and friends but something's missing. In reality, there are things she is unhappy about. She feels anxious and burdened but can't bring herself to express these feelings. Until one day she turns to a strange therapy that will make her say absolutely everything she thinks. How would your life be if you only said what you think?

Empowered

2018

The End poster
5.1

One weekend, after years without seeing each other, several friends, over whom hangs the shadow of a murky episode of the past, meet in a house in the mountains. During the first night, a strange incident takes place that leaves them isolated.

The End

2012

The Lighthouse of the Orcas poster
7.0

A mother travels to Patagonia with her autistic son with the hope that a ranger and a pod of wild orcas can help him find an emotional connection.

The Lighthouse of the Orcas

2016

Blancanieves poster
7.2

A black and white silent movie, based on the Snow White fairy tale, that is set in a romantic version of 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.

Blancanieves

2012

People in Places poster
5.0

A fragmented view of contemporary Spain, drawing conclusions about the persistence of the human condition, strangeness, and the chaos within relationships.

People in Places

2013

Crime Wave poster
5.8

Leyre lives a quiet and comfortable life which ends abruptly when an act of rage of her teenage son leads her to protect him by any means necessary.

Crime Wave

2018

The Tip of the Iceberg poster
5.0

A large, multinational company is badly shaken when three of its employees commit suicide. Sofía Cuevas, one of the company’s top executives, is chosen to prepare an in-house report to try and shed some light on the events.

The Tip of the Iceberg

2016

Chrysalis poster
6.8

Interwoven emotions and struggles of three women of different generations aiming to build the lives they desire, their own future, love and dreams. All of them lose the love of their lives and they will have to pursue their happiness and fight for their dignity in a dark and hostile word.

Chrysalis

2011

15 Years and One Day poster
6.1

Jon is a troubled teenager who has been expelled from school. His mother decides to teach him a lesson by sending him away with his grandfather Max, a retired military man who lives in a village by the seaside. But the time they will spend together won’t be that simple, Jon likes to flirt with danger and bad companies, and the veteran has now settled down into a comfortable life.

15 Years and One Day

2013

Stories of Our Cinema poster
6.3

In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country are projected. From that event, the Spanish actor Antonio Resines intends to compile a series of anecdotes to shape the amazing history of Spanish cinema, holding several conversations with prominent figures of the Spanish film industry.

Stories of Our Cinema

2019

Like Shooting Stars poster
4.6

An Italian composer in crisis takes a break in Valencia, where he takes a shine to a famous singer.

Like Shooting Stars

2017

Rafael Azcona poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rafael Azcona

2010

2000s · 13 titles

Pan's Labyrinth poster
7.8

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.

Pan's Labyrinth

2006

Y Tu Mamá También poster
7.4

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

Y Tu Mamá También

2001

Tetro poster
6.8

In Buenos Aires, 17-year-old Bennie seeks out his estranged brother Tetro, a once-promising writer haunted by their family’s past. As Bennie uncovers Tetro’s hidden manuscript, old secrets and rivalries resurface, forcing both men to confront the truth about their father and the tangled legacy that tore their family apart.

Tetro

2009

Lisístrata poster
4.9

411 BC, Sparta and Athens are in a endless war, but Lisistrata, a beautiful woman has an idea to stop the fight, and convinces all the women to do it: no sex until there is peace.

Lisístrata

2002

Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También' poster
7.0

On-set documentary about the making of the film "Y tu mamá también."

Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También'

2001

The Zone poster
6.4

Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders.

The Zone

2007

The Mudboy poster
5.8

Police try to hunt down a serial killer in 1912 Buenos Aires.

The Mudboy

2007

Oviedo Express poster
4.2

All hell breaks loose when an eccentric theatrical ensemble arrives in Oviedo, Spain to stage a production of the Leopoldo Alas play -La Regenta.

Oviedo Express

2007

Seven Billiard Tables poster
5.6

Angela and her young son Guille travel to the big city to see Leo, her father and the boy's grandfather, when he suddenly takes ill. However, they arrive to discover that he has just passed away. Charo, the dead man's lover, explains the dire traits suffered by the paternal business: a hall with seven billiard tables.

Seven Billiard Tables

2007

The Blind Sunflowers poster
6.5

Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardians of a sacred secret: Ricardo, her husband, their father, hides in the house, trying to avoid the brutal political persecution of the victors, who hunt, as if they were wild animals, and imprison or execute, those who have lost the bloody and tragic struggle…

The Blind Sunflowers

2008

Jericho Mansions poster
5.1

A murder in an old apartment building leads the superintendent to suspect everyone, and eventually himself, of the murder.

Jericho Mansions

2003

Black Serenade poster
4.9

Students of the university of Salamanca are brutally murdered by a black masked minstrel. Alex, an architecture student who has recently moved to Salamanca discovers a pattern behind the killings; it seems as if the killer strikes regularly after the exams to free the campus from lousy students.

Black Serenade

2001

Gente de mala calidad poster
4.6

Tricked by a former college rival (Guillermo Toledo), two juvenile brothers (Santiago Segura, Javier Gutiérrez) travel to a concert that's not taking place.

Gente de mala calidad

2008

1990s · 11 titles

Golden Balls poster
5.5

A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.

Golden Balls

1993

Belle Époque poster
6.7

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.

Belle Époque

1992

Goya in Bordeaux poster
6.0

Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He continues to paint at night, and in flashbacks stirred by conversations with his daughter, by awful headaches, and by the befuddlement of age, he relives key times in his life.

Goya in Bordeaux

1999

Dream Kiss poster
5.0

The gorgeous Margot supports her aged father by seducing men on trains, slipping them a Mickey Finn (a beso de sueño) and robbing them. One night her victim is a currency smuggler taking 100 million pesetas out of Spain. He's being watched by a cop and by a burned-out alcoholic.

Dream Kiss

1992

La Celestina poster
4.8

The young nobleman Calisto falls in love with Melibea, the daughter of a rich merchant. Calisto's servant Sempronio suggests they get the sorceress Celestina to further the romance. However Calisto's other servant Parmeno is suspicious of Celestina, as he knows about her tricks.

La Celestina

1996

Lovers: A True Story poster
6.5

A torrid affair between a recently discharged serviceman and an attractive widow leads to murder.

Lovers: A True Story

1991

The Bilingual Lover poster
4.0

Joan Mares obsession for the lovely and luscious Norma Valenti takes epic proportions because he cannot let go of her. After he is injured by some skin heads, he uses his scars to pursue his life as a street musician. He devices a plan to get to Norma and she never catches on to his deceit, except she realizes that as Juan Faneca his performance in bed is exactly what she had experienced with Joan Mares because she concludes they were taught sex by the same prostitute.

The Bilingual Lover

1993

La Femme et le Pantin poster
4.2

Matthieu, a mature and wealthy French businessman, meets Estrella in Barcelona, a teenager with a humble family, who is subjugated by his youth, spontaneity, candor and mischief.

La Femme et le Pantin

1990

On the Far Side of the Tunnel poster
4.7

Miguel and Aurelio are two film writers who decide to lock in a monastery in Aragon to finish the script for a movie. Strolling through the beautiful neighborhood, they meet a young and very attractive baker, with whom they maintain a loving relationship and she becomes, without realizing it, the protagonist of the script.

On the Far Side of the Tunnel

1994

Tres palabras poster
4.4

Passionate and tragic love story in between Alfredo and María, famous spanish singer from the fifties. Se is resurrected by Alfredo, cinema director, with Lupe, the young singer's daughter.

Tres palabras

1993

El sueño de Tánger poster
4.2

Three friends get involved with arms traffickers in Tangiers.

El sueño de Tánger

1991

1980s · 7 titles

The Tobacconist of Vallecas poster
6.3

Leandro, an unemployed mason and his friend, Tocho, attempt to rob a tobacconist in the Vallecas district of Madrid, but Mrs. Justa, the tobacconist, impedes it alerting the neighbors who notify police. Inside the shop, the confrontation between the two friends and their 'hostages', the tobacconist and her niece Angeles, is relaxing, and a budding sympathy arises between them.

The Tobacconist of Vallecas

1987

Year of Enlightment poster
6.0

April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. Once in the sanatorium, Manolo, surrounded by boys all much younger than he is, feels a bit like the cock of the walk since the only other man around is the handyman Emilio who looks after the gardens and does whatever needs to be done about the place. His wife, Rafaela, is the cook. Manolo meets Irene, a falangist who runs the sanatorium, and the school teacher, Miss Transito, a crabby spinster. He has his first sexual experience, albeit as a voyeur, with his nurse Vicenta. When she has to leave, her place is taken by a girl from the village, Maria Jesus, with whom Manolo falls hopelessly in love. A relationship grows up between them which will mark them both for ever.

Year of Enlightment

1986

El juego más divertido poster
5.4

Two popular television actors, Ada and Bruno, are filming " Hotel de Fez ", a popular and popular television series that upsets the lives of its two protagonists. Together they will initiate a romance behind the small screen very particular since there will be no time or way to consummate it, which will cause a tremendous tangle sown with nonsense.

El juego más divertido

1988

27 Hours poster
6.3

Drama on juvenile delinquency, unemployment and drugs. Jon, a boy of twenty, gets up at seven o'clock and from that moment we can see how he lives the friendship, love, family relationships and his dark passion for drugs.

27 Hours

1986

Badis poster
8.0

Story of two women in a small fishing village, a Spanish enclave on Moroccan territory. Touria is married to the school teacher, who suspects her of infidelity and confines her to the house. Touria befriends Moira and together they learn how to dance the flamenco.

Badis

1989

Scent of a Crime poster
4.0

Spain, 1950s. The corpse of an unknown person appears in the town square of Bocentellas, within the mythical territory of Región. The inhabitants will ask for help to Captain Medina, young officer in command of a nearby military fort, until the arrival of the judge.

Scent of a Crime

1988

Los días del cometa poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Los días del cometa

1989

Series credits

El hormiguero poster
4.7

El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on September 17, 2007. The show won the Entertainment prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.

El hormiguero

2006

La resistencia poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

La resistencia

2018

Elite poster
8.0

When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between the wealthy and the poor students leads to tragedy.

Elite

2018

Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez

2017

Rage (Furia) poster
6.5

Five women face extreme situations that will unleash their rage.

Rage (Furia)

2025

The House of the Spirits poster
8.5

The epic tale of a proud and passionate family, secret loves, and bloody revolution. The Trueba family's passions, struggles, and secrets span a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that hurls the proud, tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter towards opposite sides of the fence.

The House of the Spirits

2026

Martínez y hermanos poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Martínez y hermanos

2022

Now and Then poster
5.2

On the eve of college graduation, six best friends embark on an epic weekend to celebrate—but it takes a fatal turn. Nearly 20 years later, the survivors are reluctantly reunited by a blackmail text threatening to expose the truth about that fateful night.

Now and Then

2022

Lo + plus poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lo + plus

1995

The Final Problem poster
7.1

In the spring of 1959, a retired actor, who previously played Sherlock Holmes, must investigate a murder at a small hotel on a tiny island near Mallorca.

The Final Problem

2026

Lo de Évole poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

Lo de Évole

2020

Planeta Calleja poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Planeta Calleja

2014

Lo Siguiente poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lo Siguiente

2018

When No One Sees Us poster
6.5

Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Spanish Holy Week celebrations, two policewomen try to solve a series of crimes in the Andalusian town of Morón de la Frontera, in the political and cultural region of Seville’s so-called 'deep Spain', which is home to one of the biggest international U.S. military bases.

When No One Sees Us

2025

Historias del otro lado poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Historias del otro lado

1988

Segunda Enseñanza poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Segunda Enseñanza

1986

You Cannot Hide poster
7.1

After discovering that her husband is involved with drug trafficking, and she decides to cooperate with the DEA, Lidia is forced to move to Spain with her teenage daughter, fleeing her tragic past to start a new life. Two years later, in Spain, Lidia's life enters chaos once more when someone is sent to kill her and her daughter is kidnapped.

You Cannot Hide

2019

El mundo de Juan Lobón poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

El mundo de Juan Lobón

1989

That's My Jam (España) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

That's My Jam (España)

2023

Babysitters poster
6.2

The series shows the life of Alicia, a girl from the province who moves to Madrid to study and decides to earn an extra salary working as a babysitter for some unruly children. Next to her will live three roommates, the innocent and somewhat groggy Almudena, the American and crazy Sara and the ecologist and bohemian Rita.

Babysitters

1994

Ana. All In. poster
5.2

Ana Tramel is a brilliant criminal lawyer in her lowest hours. She receives a call from her brother, who has been accused of murdering the director of a famous casino. With a small team, she will have to face a huge corporation.

Ana. All In.

2021

La Huella del Crimen poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Huella del Crimen

1985

Los jinetes del alba poster
4.9

The inhabitants of Las Caldas, a village in Asturias, in northern Spain, whose life revolves around a sumptuous spa, trace complicated personal relationships while the whole country is inexorably heading towards revolution and civil war.

Los jinetes del alba

1991

Código fuego poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Código fuego

2003

Milá Vs Milá poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Milá Vs Milá

2021

Gracias, equipo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gracias, equipo

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