María Botto

María Botto

Born: February 10, 1974
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
María Florencia Botto Rota is an Argentinean-Spanish actress. In 1978, she moved to Spain with her mother Cristina Rota and her brother Juan Diego Botto, also actors.

She made her feature film debut at age 10, with a performance in Los motivos de Berta. On television, she had recurring roles as Sophia Moreno on Mad Dogs (2015), and as Ava Pereira, Javier's sister (Javier is portrayed by her brother, actor Juan Diego Botto), on the TNT drama series Good Behavior. She portrayed Lala Cruz in the film My Life in Ruins (2009).

Movies for María Botto...

Odio el verano
Title: Odio el verano
Character: Fátima
Released: August 23, 2024
Type: Movie
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The Night My Dad Saved Christmas
Title: The Night My Dad Saved Christmas
Released: December 1, 2023
Type: Movie
What would happen if, one year, Santa Claus was forced to cancel his Christmas Eve appointment with the world’s children?A few days before Christmas, the famously cheerful and magical giver of gifts has an accident on his sleigh, right in the middle of Madrid. He ends up in hospital, which is where he’ll have to stay until after Christmas. Fortunately, the guy he’s sharing a room with at the hospital, Salva, is willing to step in and take on his all-important Christmas work. But it won’t be easy… the Christmas countdown clock is ticking and Salva has to find the reindeer, learn to fly the sleigh and, the most difficult part of all… learn to be a good person.
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Title: The Other Side
Character: Eva
Released: November 23, 2023
Type: TV
Nacho Nieto, a journalist specialising in paranormal activity, is at a professional and personal low. After a failed suicide attempt he comes back to life accompanied by the ghost of his mentor, doctor Estrada, iconic communicator of mystery, who died more than 20 years ago.
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Title: Fleeting Lies
Character: Patricia
Released: October 9, 2023
Type: TV
It follows Lucía an executive of a high-tech company who has fought to get as far away from her humble origins as possible. On the day of her promotion, she is accused of espionage and fired.
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De perdidos a Río
Title: De perdidos a Río
Released: August 4, 2023
Type: Movie
Pedro, Kiko and David, three friends in their late thirties, travel to Rio de Janeiro to pick up the lifeless body of Mateo, their best friend from high school, who has died under mysterious circumstances. But when you arrive in Brazil, nothing is what it seems. Mateo, "the dead man", has fled, his house is upside down and one of his ex-girlfriends is desperately looking for him...
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Hustle
Title: Hustle
Character: Paola
Released: June 3, 2022
Type: Movie
After discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past abroad, a down on his luck basketball scout takes it upon himself to bring the phenom to the States without his team's approval. Against the odds, they have one final shot to prove they have what it takes to make it in the NBA.
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Code Name: Emperor
Title: Code Name: Emperor
Character: Charo
Released: March 18, 2022
Type: Movie
Juan, a secret service agent, approaches Wendy, a young Filipina who works as a maid for a suspicious couple.
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Dormir es de cobardes. 25 años de NBA
Title: Dormir es de cobardes. 25 años de NBA
Released: December 4, 2020
Type: Movie
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Valley of the Dead
Title: Valley of the Dead
Character: Sor Flor
Released: October 8, 2020
Type: Movie
During the Spanish Civil War, sworn enemies must work together when they encounter flesh-eating zombies created in a Nazi experiment.
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Title: Cuerpo de élite
Character: Andrea Zimmerman
Released: February 6, 2018
Type: TV
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Bombón helado
Title: Bombón helado
Character: María
Released: November 12, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Good Behavior
Character: Ava
Released: November 15, 2016
Type: TV
Letty Dobesh is a thief and con artist fresh out of prison whose life is always one wrong turn and bad decision from implosions — just how she likes it. But when she overhears a hitman being hired to kill a man’s wife, she sets out to derail the job, launching her on a collision course with the killer, entangling them in a dangerous and seductive relationship.
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Risen
Title: Risen
Character: Mary Magdalene
Released: February 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Clavius, a powerful Roman military tribune, and his aide, Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.
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Girl Gets Girl
Title: Girl Gets Girl
Character: Sofía
Released: September 25, 2015
Type: Movie
Inès is living the American dream in Miami. She's in a relationship with Becky and is a successful illustrator for a major publishing house. However, her happiness is shattered when she is caught cheating on her girlfriend. She decides to return to her loved ones in Spain.
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Hablar
Title: Hablar
Character: La Madre
Released: June 12, 2015
Type: Movie
An anthology film with 20 stories on the subject of words, communication, linked to one another over a 400-metre stretch: from Madrid's Lavapiés Square to the Sala Mirador. A journey between theatre and cinema, filmed in a single fixed shot running continuously over 80 minutes and half a kilometer, in Madrid's popular Lavapiés district. The characters talk, argue, laugh, cry, threaten, whisper, shout, steal, make dates, get angry with and hug one another, prompting the spectator to reflect on the immense power of words.
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Title: Bajo sospecha
Character: Sara Guzmán Mavit
Released: February 17, 2015
Type: TV
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Title: Bajo sospecha
Character: Sara Guzman
Released: February 17, 2015
Type: TV
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Title: Mad Dogs
Character: Sophia Moreno
Released: January 15, 2015
Type: TV
When a group of underachieving 40-something friends gather in Belize to celebrate the early retirement of an old friend, a series of wild, comedic events unfold, exposing dark secrets and a web of lies, deception and murder.
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Three Many Weddings
Title: Three Many Weddings
Character: Sara
Released: December 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Ruth, a young researcher at a college, is invited to the weddings of three of her exes. She enlists the help of her assistant to find a companion for each wedding; will one of them turn out to be her soulmate?
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La mujer del hatillo gris
Title: La mujer del hatillo gris
Character: Maria
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
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Animales de compañía
Title: Animales de compañía
Character: Sofía
Released: December 23, 2009
Type: Movie
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My Life in Ruins
Title: My Life in Ruins
Character: Lala Cruz
Released: June 5, 2009
Type: Movie
A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.
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Title: Pelotas
Character: Marta
Released: February 23, 2009
Type: TV
Pelotas is a Spanish tragicomedy television series created by José Corbacho and Juan Cruz, set in Hospitalet de Llobregat, a suburb of Barcelona. It was broadcast on La 1, the primary channel of Televisión Española, between 23 February 2009 and 7 June 2010. The series is based around the lives of local Unión Fútbol Club supporters.
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Small Country
Title: Small Country
Character: Rosana adulta
Released: August 21, 2008
Type: Movie
Two young people learn about love as politics turn their world upside down in this drama from director Ana Diez. After a long and successful career as a soccer player, Xavi retires from the game and moves to Spain, where one day to his surprise he happens upon Rosana, a friend from his childhood in Uruguay. As Xavi and Rosana catch up on what has happened to them over the past thirty years, they flash back to 1973, when young Xavi and his father Manuel, a shoemaker, lived down the street from Rosana.
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Small Country
Title: Small Country
Released: August 21, 2008
Type: Movie
Two young people learn about love as politics turn their world upside down in this drama from director Ana Diez. After a long and successful career as a soccer player, Xavi retires from the game and moves to Spain, where one day to his surprise he happens upon Rosana, a friend from his childhood in Uruguay. As Xavi and Rosana catch up on what has happened to them over the past thirty years, they flash back to 1973, when young Xavi and his father Manuel, a shoemaker, lived down the street from Rosana.
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En la otra camilla
Title: En la otra camilla
Character: Marta
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
The quiet day-to-day existence of two kidnappers, Alfonso and Marta, comes to an abrupt end when the elderly businessman they are holding in captivity tries to commit suicide.
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Barcelona (A Map)
Title: Barcelona (A Map)
Character: Violeta
Released: October 19, 2007
Type: Movie
Six characters, contemporary archetypes of urban solitude, meet in an old apartment located in the city centre of Barcelona. An elderly married couple, her brother and three tenants: a blonde woman who gives French classes, a young security guard, an ex-football player and a young, pregnant South American girl. The old man, who was formerly a doorman at the opera and who likes to dress up in women's clothes, gets them all together and asks them to leave as he is going to die and wants to be alone for the last stage of his life. In this flat, incest, homosexuality and adultery are intertwined in the life of these characters whilst we simultaneously witness the passing of time in this Mediterranean city.
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Title: Círculo rojo
Character: Andrea Onieva
Released: May 8, 2007
Type: TV
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El crimen de una novia
Title: El crimen de una novia
Released: April 28, 2006
Type: Movie
This documentary tells the facts Lorca inspired to write "Blood Wedding", through the eyes of Maria Botto, actress whom Rafael Amargo intends to participate in the girlfriend role in a montage, mixing theater and dance, on the well-known work of Spanish poet and playwright. What initially began as a simple interest of an actress to know and understand her character, ends up becoming a rite of passage in search of the reality of the facts, the crime of Níjar, occurred on July 22, 1928 in a small town Almeria.
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Title: 7 días al desnudo
Character: Marta Castillo
Released: December 22, 2005
Type: TV
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The Longest Penalty Shot in the World
Title: The Longest Penalty Shot in the World
Character: Ana
Released: March 8, 2005
Type: Movie
Fernando (Fernando Tejero) is a loser. A gray type, without ambition, that works like bookcases distributor in a supermarket of the quarter. In his free short whiles, he is a substitute keeper of a football team, a third regional one. In all the season he has not played a single minute. But the last Sunday of the league the referee indicates penalty and the regular keeper injures itself. Fernando must occupy the goal for the first time. If penalty scores, the team of the district will proclaim champion. If no, all the effort of a year will not have been worth for anything. When the penalty is just about to be kicked, a group of indignant fans with the referee invades the field and prevents the kick. The competition committee decides that the penalty must play the following Sunday, in the same goal, with same players and the field closed to the public. El Penalti más largo del mundo, (The Longest Penalty Shot in the World) is exactly the history of that week of delay.
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Mis estimadas víctimas
Title: Mis estimadas víctimas
Character: Nieves
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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María querida
Title: María querida
Released: October 29, 2004
Type: Movie
Lola goes to cover the press conference of the Cervantes Prize Award to María Zambrano. Captivated by the personality of the thinker decides to launch a film about her.
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Only Human
Title: Only Human
Character: Tania Dali
Released: July 9, 2004
Type: Movie
Leni takes Rafi to meet her family in Madrid. Leni's family is Jewish - mother, father, older sister and daughter, brother, and grandfather. Rafi is Palestinian, in Spain since age 12. Before her father returns from work, Leni reveals Rafi's origins. He accidentally drops a block of frozen soup out the flat window, probably killing a passerby. Leni initiates a cover-up and Rafi figures out the body is probably Leni's father. The body disappears and without telling the rest of the family what they know, Leni and Rafi organize a search for dad. Mom is sure he's having an affair. Leni's belly-dancing sister kisses Rafi. Her brother grabs a rifle to shoot the Arab. Can anything be put right?
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Los abajo firmantes
Title: Los abajo firmantes
Character: Laura
Released: October 17, 2003
Type: Movie
The first actor of a theater company on tour in Spain dies in a car accident. A new actor, Jorge Ruiz, is to relieve you. He's handsome, young and revolutionary. His arrival creates tension, jealousy and distrust in the rest of the cast, is-especially in Mario Soto, which is responsible to lead in the absence of the author of the assembly, busy with an opera for the Teatro Real in Madrid . Already in the first trial of the work concerned the "Play Without a Title" by Federico Garcia Lorca, their personalities collide head. Morante Carmen, leading actress of the company, and Laura G. Reyna, which was secret lover of the deceased, witness the struggle between the two. As if that were not enough, the newcomer brings added conflict: reading at the end of the function of a manifesto for peace. Mario questioned that decision and the company is divided.
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Carmen
Title: Carmen
Character: Fernanda
Released: May 16, 2003
Type: Movie
In director Vicente Aranda's adaptation of the classic opera, a French writer documents the seductive power of the beautiful Gypsy Carmen, who turns her charms on a young soldier, awakening his passions but ultimately leading to tragedy. Jose becomes obsessed with Carmen and finds himself unable to control his jealousy, which forces him to make a deadly decision in this fiery story of love and betrayal.
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Soldiers of Salamina
Title: Soldiers of Salamina
Character: Conchi
Released: March 21, 2003
Type: Movie
Professor Lola Sánchez investigates the truth behind the events experienced by Rafael Sánchez Mazas, one of the founders of the Falange Española party, during the Spanish Civil War.
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El balancín de Iván
Title: El balancín de Iván
Character: Ana (adulta)
Released: April 12, 2002
Type: Movie
Ana is a woman of thirty-something, goes back to the house where she spent of her childhood during the Argentine dictatorship.
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Title: Cuéntame cómo pasó
Character: Fabiola
Released: September 13, 2001
Type: TV
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
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Broken Silence
Title: Broken Silence
Character: Lola
Released: April 27, 2001
Type: Movie
Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco resistance. Lucía is attracted to Manual, because of his smile and the bravery of those men who continue fighting for their ideas, even at the cost of their own lives. When Manuel is pursued (by Franco's Civil Guard) he flees to the mountain and Lucía discovers the reality of political repression, the silence, the horror and fear.
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Jealousy
Title: Jealousy
Character: Cinta Vidal
Released: September 3, 1999
Type: Movie
A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman's friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta tells Antonio the man's first name. Carmen tells him that the man meant nothing to her, and that the photograph was taken before she met Antonio. She loves Antonio and sets out to wipe the photograph from his mind through exuberant sex, but her ploy backfires and Antonio remains fixated. Slowly he finds out about the man, and about Carmen's past. Will jealousy consume this couple or can they find a way to kill the green-eyed monster?
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Title: 7 vidas
Character: Ana
Released: January 17, 1999
Type: TV
The story of a group of friends in Madrid.
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If They Tell You I Fell
Title: If They Tell You I Fell
Character: Fueguiña
Released: September 19, 1989
Type: Movie
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later
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Stico
Title: Stico
Character: Niña (uncredited)
Released: March 4, 1985
Type: Movie
Leopoldo Contreras, a professor emeritus of Roman law has serious economic problems. His translations of classical authors do not give enough money to live and had to sell even their floor. To remedy the situation is offered as a slave to a former student in exchange for room and board.
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La Navidad en sus manos 2
Title: La Navidad en sus manos 2
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie