Education
María Ruiz studied classical ballet and flamenco in the Computer-aided Design Armengou school in Santander.
María Ruiz studied classical ballet and flamenco in the Computer-aided Design Armengou school in Santander.
She subsequently studies acting in the drama school "Theatre for the People."
In 2004 she participates in her first feature film, playing the role of "Piedad" in El asombroso mundo de Borjamari y Pocholo, directed and produced by Enrique López Lavigne (The impossible). In 2006, she is cast as the leading role in Antonio Banderas" feature film Summer Rain (El Camino de los Ingleses), the second film directed by Antonio Banderas after Crazy in Alabama, and based on the book by Antonio Soler. This film is screened at Sundance Film Festival and wins the European Cinemas Label at Berlin International Film Festival the same year.
In 2007 she shoots the film "Un buen día lo tine cualquiera" directed by Spanish cult director Santiago Lorenzo, and works in several television series in 2007 and 2008.
In 2009 she plays the iconic Carmina Ordoñez, the first wife of Spanish bullfighter Francisco Rivera (Paquirri), in the television movie Paquirri. In 2011 she plays the experimental film "El sabor salado de las lágrimas" directed by Augusto Martínez Torres.
In Theatre, she plays in 2008 the role of Iulia Macedonia in Plauto"sMiles Gloriosus. This play premieres at the 54th edition of Mérida International Festival of Classical Theatre, becoming the most attended play in the history of this festival.
In 2010 she writes and plays "Help me succeed" (Ayúdame a triunfar), directed by Marisa Lull.
In 2012, she plays along with Emilio Gutiérrez-Caba in Dracula as Mina. This play opens in the Lope de Vega theatre (Seville) and tours around Spain before reaching the Marquina theatre (Madrid), where it stays for several months. Besides film, television and theatre, Maria Ruiz has played in several shorts, including Another Love (2015), produced by MaskedFrame Pictures (United Kingdom) and directed by Victor Pérez (VFX in Les Misérables, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight, Harry Potter), and co-starred by Nigel Barber (Mission Impossible: Rogue_Nation, Spectre).
