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María Valverde

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She began acting in 2002, when film director Manuel Martin Cuenca chose her from 3000 girls to be the lead actress in his film "The Bolshevik's Weakness." One year later, Maria's work impressed both the audience and the Spanish Film Academy, who awarded her with the Goya for Best Newcomer. Since then she has been working in Spain, Italy, UK, US, Mexico, Venezuela...
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María Valverde Rodríguez (born March 24, 1987) is a Spanish actress.

At age 16, Valverde had a major role in La Flaqueza del Bolchevique, for which she won Best New Actress at the 18th Goya Awards. Her other films include Melissa P., based on the book One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed by Melissa Panarello and Tres Metros Sobre el Cielo.

Valverde's films in English include the 2009 independent British drama film Cracks, produced by Ridley Scott and directed by his daughter, Jordan Scott, and the 2014 film Exodus: Gods and Kings playing Zipporah, directed by Ridley Scott, alongside Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, and Ben Kingsley. In 2015, she played the lead in the drama Broken Horses, co-starring with Anton Yelchin.

From 2010 to 2014 Valverde was in a relationship with the Spanish actor Mario Casas with whom she starred in three movies. In March 2017, Valverde married Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel.
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Was formerly in a relationship with Mario Casas from 2010 until 2014.
In 2012, she appeared in twelve episodes of the television series La fuga (2012).
She grew up in Madrid, Spain. From 2009 until 2014, she dated Spanish television actor Mario Casas.
Married secretly in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada.
She co-starred with Eva Green in a 2009 independent film titled Cracks (2009).

[on Madrid, 1987 (2011)] It was a project that I came from the hands of David Trueba himself. The title attracted me a lot because I was born in Madrid this year. When I read, could not believe what I read. It was wonderful, round. It violated me so much I felt a great need to see it as a spectator and had the great opportunity to do it. I didn't hesitate at any time. It was very clear.
[on Cracks (2009)] When I read the script, I fell in love with the story and I thought, "I really want to go to the cinema to see this film." And when I knew that the director was Jordan Scott, and she was a woman, and a young girl was very important to me.

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