ACTOR

Carmen Maura

1945 - Today

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María del Carmen García Maura (born 15 September 1945) is a Spanish actress. In a career that has spanned six decades, she has starred in films such as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, ¡Ay Carmela!, Common Wealth, and Volver. She holds the record for most Goya Awards for Best Actress (with 3 wins and two other nominations). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carmen Maura has received more than 478,993 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Carmen Maura is the 657th most popular actor (down from 606th in 2019), the 343rd most popular biography from Spain (down from 293rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Spanish Actor.

Carmen Maura is most famous for her role as Carmen in the film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

Memorability Metrics

  • 480k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Carmen Maura ranks 657 out of 13,578. Before her are Claudette Colbert, Robert Englund, Karin Schubert, Ben Stiller, Loie Fuller, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. After her are Kelly McGillis, Robert Knepper, Bekim Fehmiu, Tom Hardy, Tom Conti, and Lita Grey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Carmen Maura ranks 66. Before her are Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Bette Midler, Richard Thaler, Moncef Marzouki, Hasan Akhund, and Ken Hensley. After her are Haris Silajdžić, Dennis Rader, Joël Robuchon, Yochanan Vollach, Joseph Kosuth, and Graça Machel.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Carmen Maura ranks 343 out of 3,355. Before her are Benito Pérez Galdós (1843), Peter of Alcantara (1499), Ernesto Valverde (1964), Eulalia of Barcelona (290), Berengaria of Castile (1180), and Priscillian (340). After her are Juan Negrín (1892), Joan Laporta (1962), Severo Ochoa (1905), Miguel López de Legazpi (1502), Martín Alonso Pinzón (1441), and Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba (1926).

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Among ACTORS In Spain

Among actors born in Spain, Carmen Maura ranks 7. Before her are Antonio Banderas (1960), Penélope Cruz (1974), Carmen Amaya (1913), Fernando Rey (1917), Javier Bardem (1969), and La Belle Otero (1868). After her are Francisco Rabal (1926), Marisa Paredes (1946), Sara Montiel (1928), María Casares (1922), Victoria Abril (1959), and Pedro Alonso (1971).

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Television and Movie Roles

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Pepa
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Mar 25o 19887.41 / 10
Volver
Irene
Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality.
Mar 17o 20067.5 / 10
Common Wealth
Julia
Julia, a real estate agent, finds an enormous amount of money hidden in a dead man's apartment, a stroke of luck that will force her to face the wrath of the very peculiar inhabitants of the community, who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the money.
Sep 29o 20006.9 / 10