Kiti Mánver
Spanish actress
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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[1] was born in Antequera on 11 May 1953.[2] She spent her early childhood in between Málaga and Melilla, moving to Madrid at age 13.[3] She made her feature film debut in Chicas de club (1970), playing a girl version of the character Elisa who is raped by her godfather.[4][3] She then featured in the 1973 film Habla, mudita.[3]
Her performance in the crime thriller Anything for Bread (1991) won her the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress.[5] In the film, she portrayed a refined, cultured nursing home director who forms a tandem with a porn actress to recover the cache from a bingo robbery.[5]
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).[6][7]
Selected filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1970 |
Chicas de club | Elisa | Feature film debut | |
1973 |
Habla, mudita | |||
1980 |
Ópera prima (Opera Prima) | Ana | ||
1984 |
¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? (What Have I Done to Deserve This?) | Juani | ||
1987 |
Luna de lobos (Wolves' Moon) | María | ||
1988 |
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) | Paulina Morales | ||
| Pasodoble | Camila | |||
1991 |
Todo por la pasta (Anything for Bread) | Verónica | ||
1992 |
Una mujer bajo la lluvia (A Woman in the Rain) | Alicia | ||
| La reina anónima (The Anonymous Queen) | Profesora | |||
1994 |
Todos los hombres sois iguales (All Men Are the Same) | Esther | ||
1995 |
La flor de mi secreto (The Flower of My Secret) | Manuela | ||
1995 |
El seductor | Aurora | ||
| Boca a boca (Mouth to Mouth) | Lucy | |||
1996 |
La sal de la vida | Consuelo | ||
| Brujas | ||||
1997 |
Cosas que dejé en La Habana (Things I Left in Havana) | Azucena | ||
| No se puede tener todo | Nely | |||
1998 |
Una pareja perfecta (A Perfect Couple) | Anita | ||
2000 |
La comunidad (Common Wealth) | Dolores | ||
2002 |
El caballero Don Quijote (Don Quixote, Knight Errant) | Ama | ||
2003 |
La luz prodigiosa (The End of a Mystery) | Adela | ||
| Te doy mis ojos (Take My Eyes) | Rosa | |||
2007 |
Luz de domingo (Sunday Light) | Doña Predes | ||
2009 |
Pagafantas (Friend Zone) | Gloria | ||
2010 |
Una hora más en Canarias (With or Without Love) | Daniela | ||
2011 |
Lo contrario al amor (The Opposite of Love) | María Amparo | ||
2020 |
El inconveniente (One Careful Owner) | Lola | ||
2023 |
Mamacruz | Cruz |
Television
- Gran Hotel (2011)
- Cable Girls (2017)
- Money Heist (2017)
- Two Graves (2025)[35]
Accolades
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1992 | 6th Goya Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Anything for Bread | Won | [3] |
1998 | 1st Málaga Film Festival | Best Actress | A Perfect Couple | Won | |
2003 |
12th Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Stage Actress in a Leading Role | El matrimonio de Boston | Won | |
2021 |
26th Forqué Awards | Best Film Actress | One Careful Owner | Nominated | |
| 8th Feroz Awards | Best Actress in a Film | Nominated | |||
| 76th CEC Medals | Best Actress | Nominated | |||
| 35th Goya Awards | Best Actress | Nominated | |||
2024 | 11th Feroz Awards | Best Actress in a Film | Mamacruz | Nominated | |
| 3rd Carmen Awards | Best Actress | Won | |||
2026 |
34th Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Stage Actress in a Secondary Role | Música para Hitler | Nominated |
