María Romanillos (born 2004) is a Spanish film and television actress.
Life and career
Romanillos was born in 2004 in
Madrid
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, training at theatre school Cuarta Pared and film school Primera Toma.
In 2020, she made her television debut, featuring in a minor role in ''
Riot Police
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Riot police may be regular police officers who act in the role of riot police in particular situations, or they may be separate unit ...
''.
She made her film debut in Claudia Pinto's ''
The Consequences'' (2021),
playing a girl arriving in an isolate island alongside her parents.
For two seasons (2021–22), she starred in speculative fiction teen drama series ''
Paradise
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''. In 2022, she featured in thriller drama film ''
Staring at Strangers
''Staring at Strangers'' (, known early in the production stage as ''From the Shadows''; ) is a 2022 Spanish-Belgian thriller drama film directed by Félix Viscarret adapting the Juan José Millás' novel ''Desde la sombra''. Its cast is led by ...
'', based on a novel by
Juan José Millás
Juan José Millás (born 1946) is a Spanish writer and winner of the 1990 Premio Nadal. He was born in Valencia, Spain, Valencia and has spent most of his life in Madrid, Spain, Madrid, where he studied philosophy and literature at the Universida ...
; she portrayed a girl living with her parents in a home disturbed by the presence of a stranger who unintendedly arrived to their home hidden in an wardrobe. She also starred in supernatural horror film ''
13 Exorcisms'' (2022), portraying the protagonist, a young girl 'diagnosed' with suffering a
demonic possession
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. In 2024 she played a teenager dreaming on being able to write as her uncle, a noted writer, in ''
La casa
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It tells the story of a family living in a stately Buenos Aires mansion from the heyday of Argentina's oligarchy in the 1880s to some time in the post- ...
''.
She also played the gender-fluid granddaughter of
Luis Bermejo's Norberto, a woman trapped in a man's body, in ''
Norberta''.
In 2024, she wrapped shooting the thriller film ''
El cuento del lobo'' (in the role of a cleaning woman)
and joined the cast of
Netflix
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sports teen drama series ''Olympo''.
Filmography
Film
Television
Accolades
References
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2004 births
21st-century Spanish actresses
Actresses from Madrid
Spanish film actresses
Spanish television actresses
Living people