Kiti Mánver
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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 was born in Antequera on 11 May 1953. She spent her early childhood in between Málaga and Melilla, moving to Madrid at age 13. She made her feature film debut in Chicas de club[es] (1970), playing a girl version of the character Elisa who is raped by her godfather. She then featured in the 1973 film Habla, mudita.
Her performance in the crime thriller Anything for Bread (1991) won her the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress. 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.
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).
Selected filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Chicas de club[es] | 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)
Accolades
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 6th Goya Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Anything for Bread | Won | |
| 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 | |||
| 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 |
External links
- at IMDb