Maria Valverde was born in Madrid on the 24th of March 1987. She always wanted to be an actress and she could finally fulfilled her dream when she was 16 with a leading role with Luis Tosar in a Manuel Martín Cuenca movie, La flaqueza del bolchevique, she won the 2003 Goya Award for this role. She has also taken part in several films, such as Melissa P, a film based on the polemic book One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed by Melissa Panarello.