María Isabel Ana Mantecón Vernalte (born 11 May 1953), better known as Kiti Mánver, is a Spanish actress. She has appeared in more than 100 films and television shows since 1970.

Biography

María Isabel Ana Mantecón Vernalte was born in

Antequera Antequera () is a city and municipality in the Comarca de Antequera, province of Málaga, part of the Spain, Spanish autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. It is known as "the heart of Andalusia" (''el corazón de An ...

on 11 May 1953. She spent her early childhood in between

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and

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, moving to

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at age 13. She made her feature film debut in ' (1970), playing a girl version of the character Elisa who is raped by her godfather. She then featured in the 1973 film '' Habla, mudita''. In 2015, she came to the London stage to play the lead role in ''Las heridas del viento'', a play by Juan Carlos Rubio, as part of the 3rd

Festival of Spanish Theatre in London (Festelón) The Festival of Spanish Theatre of London (FesTeLõn) has taken place in London every year since 2013, when it opened at the Greenwood Theatre, with a production of ''El Diccionario (The Dictionary)'' by Manuel Calzada, a play about the lexicograph ...

Selected filmography

Film

Television

* '' Gran Hotel'' (2011) * ''

Cable Girls ''Cable Girls'' () is a Spanish period drama television series that ran from April 2017 and concluded in July 2020. Set in the late 1920s, it stars Ana Fernández, Nadia de Santiago, Blanca Suárez and Maggie Civantos. The first season, cons ...

'' (2017) * ''

Money Heist ''Money Heist'' (, , ) is a Spanish heist crime drama television series created by Álex Pina. The series traces two long-prepared heists led by the Professor ( Álvaro Morte), one on the Royal Mint of Spain, and one on the Bank of Spain, ...

'' (2017)

Accolades

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External links

* 1953 births Living people Actresses from Andalusia People from Antequera Spanish film actresses 20th-century Spanish actresses 21st-century Spanish actresses Spanish television actresses Spanish stage actresses Long stubs with short prose {{Spain-actor-stub