María Romanillos

Romanillos was born in 2004 in Madrid, training at theatre school Cuarta Pared and film school Primera Toma.^[1]

In 2020, she made her television debut, featuring in a minor role in Riot Police.^[1][2] She made her film debut in Claudia Pinto's The Consequences (2021),^[1] playing a girl arriving in an isolate island alongside her parents.^[3] For two seasons (2021–22), she starred in speculative fiction teen drama series Paradise. In 2022, she featured in thriller drama film Staring at Strangers, based on a novel by Juan José Millás; 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.^[4] She also starred in supernatural horror film 13 Exorcisms (2022), portraying the protagonist, a young girl 'diagnosed' with suffering a demonic possession.^[5] In 2024 she played a teenager dreaming on being able to write as her uncle, a noted writer, in La casa.^[6] She also played the gender-fluid granddaughter of Luis Bermejo's Norberto, a woman trapped in a man's body, in Norberta.^[7]

In 2024, she wrapped shooting the thriller film El cuento del lobo (in the role of a cleaning woman)^[8] and joined the cast of Netflix sports teen drama series Olympo.^[9]