
Acting
Montserrat Marañon
Born 1974-01-06 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Mexican television and theater actress Montserrat Marañón studied Dramatic Literature and Theater at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters UNAM in Mexico City. She received the 2005-2006 FONCA scholarship in the category of Cabaret Performers, with which she was able to create the play Memorias de un géiser. Some of her teachers have been José Caballero (acting improvement), Enrique Singer (character creation), Alberto Lomnitz (character creation), Boris Schoeman (staged reading), Omar Argentino (improvisation), Jesusa Rodríguez (dramaturgy for cabaret) among others. She performs in cabaret shows, some of them with the master Jesusa Rodríguez. For 20 years she has been a guest actress of the group Seña y Verbo (theater for the deaf) working in productions for children and adults. She has collaborated in both commercial and independent theater. Since the beginning of her career she has not stopped doing theater for children. She has also worked as a storyteller for CONACULTA. She also acted in some soap operas such as El color de la pasión (2014), El hotel de los secretos (2016), Amor de Barrio (2015) and Caer en tentación (2017). The actress gained more popularity thanks to her role as Betzabé in the sitcom María de todos los ángeles (2009-2014), alongside Mara Escalante.
Acting credits
6.8In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.
Tótem
2023
6.8A renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit.
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
2022
6.7Twenty years have passed since those two apartments in the heart of Mexico City were the battlefield of a war of the sexes between Ana, Carlos, Andrea, Miguel, Tomás and María. All that is left of those apartments are memories and the image of Tomás' dead body at the bottom of the elevator shaft. Their lives have changed, their families have grown and new and unexpected characters have come to unsettle their daily lives and trigger a chain of events that will make them realize that modesty has been replaced by public disclosure; sex is only an app away; but love...love is still something elusive that everyone in today's banal and chaotic world is seeking.
Sex, Shame and Tears 2
2022
6.3The enigmatic Isabel decides to rent her belly to give birth to the baby of Sara and Joaquin, a possessive couple obsessed with the idea of starting a family.
Souvenir
2021
7.9An ad creative and a successful exec have a great marriage — until he wants to be a dad just as her star is rising. Then he brings someone new home.
You've Got This
2020
After his mother’s sudden disappearance, Armín, an isolated teenager, is forced out of his solitude and into a world he fears. As grief pushes him forward, his journey becomes one of self-discovery, confronting his inner shadows in search of acceptance and the courage to grow.
Garden Chest
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5.7While staying at a tropical resort, a man becomes convinced the American timeshare company running it has an evil plan to take away his loved ones.
Time Share
2018
6.2Teen comedy set in the school-year of 1994. José is the new kid on high-school, falling immediately for the popular and freckled Christina. Trying to impress her, he's going to unsuccessfully join the soccer try-outs. Is he shooting way out of his league?
All the Freckles in the World
2019
7.0Miriam teaches sign language in the mornings and is part of a professional theater production in the afternoons, maintaining a stable and passionate relationship with her girlfriend Lola. Although her life is very much connected to the routine of a deaf person, her world begins to crumble when she discovers that she is losing her hearing.
All the Silence
2023
8.0Caro and Sofía get ready for a weekend with their families and the surprise of a marriage proposal that could go very wrong.
Atrapadas en familia
2022
4.3A governor wants to be president, but in order to reach his goal he needs to do what he hates most: being a politician.
A Beginner's Guide to the Presidency
2016
NRTwenty-one-year-old Juan gets some terrible news from his doctor: he has aggressive lung cancer. His whole life turns upside down as the disease evolves.
Guiltless
2017
5.8No synopsis available yet.
Agua de Arrayan
2022
6.8A mexican chef meets her love interest in an american man.
American Curious
2018
NRA statement about retrograde sexism and false male deconstruction in Mexico. Roberto meets María, his ex-wife, to give her the monthly child support money for Natalia: their daughter. He tries to show María that he has changed but fails to hide he is the same he's always been.
...todo esto que arde en mi.
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2.0An exquisite corpse that aims to configure a plural vision of the experiences of isolation during the first months of the pandemic. The film consists of 6 fragments directed by 6 different Latin American directors.
Adentro
2021