María Barranco born María de los Remedios Barranco García, is a Spanish

Spain

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 actress, who has won two Goya Awards

Goya Awards

The Goya Awards, known in Spanish as los Premios Goya, are Spain's main national film awards, considered by many in Spain, and internationally, to be the Spanish equivalent of the American Academy Awards....

 for Best Supporting Actress.

Born in Fuengirola

Fuengirola

Fuengirola, in ancient times known as Suel and then Suhayl, is a large town and municipality on the Costa del Sol in the province of Málaga, autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain. It is a major tourist resort, with more than 8 km of beaches, and home to a mediæval Moorish fortress...

, Province of Málaga, she studied medicine, but left to study drama in the city of Málaga

Málaga

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, where she participated in various theatre groups. Later, she moved to Madrid

Madrid

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 to debut at the theatre with La venganza de Don Mendo (Don Mendo's revenge).
Her film debut was in 1986, in the film El elegido (The Chosen).

She was married to filmmaker Imanol Uribe

Imanol Uribe

Imanol Uribe is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director.He was born in San Salvador, and is of Basque ancestry. Uribe was married to María Barranco...

, but they divorced in 2004. They have a daughter, Andrea, born in 1993.

Filmography

Year	Film	Director
1988	Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios	Pedro Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...
1989	Las cosas del querer	Jaime Chávarri Jaime Chávarri Jaime Chávarri y de la Mora is a Spanish actor, screenwriter and film director. His mother María de la Mora y Maura was a maternal granddaughter of Antonio Maura....
1989	El baile del pato	Manuel Iborra
1989	Fool's Mate	Mathieu Carrière Mathieu Carrière Mathieu Carrière is a German actor.Carrière grew up in Berlin and Lübeck; he attended the Jesuit boarding school Lycée Saint-François-Xavier in Vannes, France, a school which had previously been attended by the director of Carrière's first major film, Volker Schlöndorff. In 1969 Carrière moved to...
1990	Las edades de Lulú	Bigas Luna Bigas Luna Juan José Bigas Luna is a Spanish film director. He began his professional career in the design world, creating the Estudio Gris with Carlos Riart in 1969. In his earlier exhibitions, at the beginning of the sixties, he showed a great interest in conceptual art and the emerging visual technologies...
1990	Átame	Pedro Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...
1991	El rey pasmado	Imanol Uribe Imanol Uribe Imanol Uribe is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director.He was born in San Salvador, and is of Basque ancestry. Uribe was married to María Barranco...
1991	Todo por la pasta	Enrique Urbizu Enrique Urbizu Enrique Urbizu is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He is a native of Bilbao.-Filmography:* Tu novia está loca * Todo por la pasta * Como ser infeliz y disfrutarlo * Cachito...
1992	La ardilla roja La ardilla roja The Red Squirrel is a 1993 drama film by the Spanish filmmaker Julio Médem, starring Emma Suárez and Nancho Novo.-Plot:Jota , a failed musician whose girlfriend has recently left him, is about to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge when a girl on a motorcycle, Sofía , crashes off it...	Julio Medem Julio Medem Julio Médem is a Spanish writer and film director.Medem was born in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain and showed an interest in movies since childhood, when he would take his father's Super 8 camera and shoot at night, while nobody was paying attention...
1993	Rosa Rosae	Gonzalo Suárez Gonzalo Suárez Gonzalo Suárez Morilla is a Spanish writer, screenwriter and film director.-Career:In 1963 he published his first novel De cuerpo presente....
1994	Todos los hombres sois iguales	Manuel Gómez Pereira Manuel Gómez Pereira Manuel Gómez Pereira is a successful Spanish screenwriter and film director of comedies.He is the nephew of the film director Luis Sanz.-Filmography as Director :* 1992: Salsa rosa...
1995	Siete mil días juntos	Fernando Fernán Gómez Fernando Fernán Gómez Fernando Fernán-Gómez was a Spanish actor and director. He was born in Lima, Peru as his mother, Spanish actress Carola Fernán-Gómez, was making a tour of Latin America. Inheriting his surname as a stage name, he moved to Spain in 1924.After the Spanish Civil War he began a study of Law but...
1995	Morirás en Chafarinas	Pedro Olea
1995	El efecto mariposa	Fernando Colomo Fernando Colomo Fernando Colomo , is a Spanish film producer, screenwriter and film director. He has acted in small roles in his films and others.- Filmography :*1973 Mañana llega el presidente *1974 En un país imaginario...
1995	El palomo cojo	Jaime de Armiñan
1995	Boca a boca	Manuel Gómez Pereira Manuel Gómez Pereira Manuel Gómez Pereira is a successful Spanish screenwriter and film director of comedies.He is the nephew of the film director Luis Sanz.-Filmography as Director :* 1992: Salsa rosa...
1996	Bwana	Imanol Uribe Imanol Uribe Imanol Uribe is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director.He was born in San Salvador, and is of Basque ancestry. Uribe was married to María Barranco...
1997	99´9	Agustín Villaronga
1998	La niña de tus ojos La niña de tus ojos The Girl of Your Dreams is a 1998 Spanish drama film produced and directed by Fernando Trueba based on facts: during the Spanish Civil War, cinema studios supported the Republic, so Franco's followers had to go to Germany or Italy to make fictional films at Universum Film AG, known as UFA studios...	Fernando Trueba Fernando Trueba Fernando Trueba is a Spanish book editor, screenwriter, film director and producer.Between 1974 and 1979 worked as a film critic for Spain's leading daily newspaper EL PAIS. In 1980, founded the monthly film magazine CASABLANCA, which he edited and directed during its first two years...
1999	Novios	Joaquín Oristrell Joaquín Oristrell Joaquín Oristrell is a Catalan film director and screenwriter.He has written scripts to Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Fernando Colomo and others directors before his film debut in 1997 with -Selected filmography:*El próximo oriente *Va a ser que nadie es perfecto...
2001	Anita no pierde su tren	Ventura Pons Ventura Pons Ventura Pons Sala is a Catalan movie director.After a decade as a theatre director, Ventura Pons directed his first film in 1977, Ocaña, an Intermittent Portrait, which was officially selected by the 1978 Cannes Film Festival...
2003	El viaje de Carol	Imanol Uribe Imanol Uribe Imanol Uribe is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director.He was born in San Salvador, and is of Basque ancestry. Uribe was married to María Barranco...
2004	Atún y chocolate	Pablo Carbonell

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