What is Carmen Maura?
{{Infobox person | honorific-prefix = [[The Most Excellent|Excelentísima Señora]] [[Don (honorific)|Doña]] | name = Carmen Maura | honorific-suffix = [[Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise|OAXS]] |image = (Carmen_Maura)_Entrega_de_la_Medalla_internacional_de_las_Artes_de_la_Comunidad_de_Madrid_a_Carmen_Maura_(33552184358)_(cropped).jpg |imagesize = 200px | birthname = María del Carmen García Maura | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|9|15|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Madrid]], [[Spain]] |occupation = Actress | yearsactive = 1969–present }} '''María del Carmen García Maura''' <small>[[Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise|OAXS]]</small> (born 15 September 1945) is a [[Spain|Spanish]] actress. Maura is best known for her works [[Spain|Spanish]] movie directors [[Pedro Almodóvar]] and [[Álex de la Iglesia]]. Maura holds the record (with three) for most [[Goya Award|Goya Awards]] for Best Leading Actress. She also won a [[César Award|Cesar Award]] in 2013. Maura is seen as a [[gay]] icon for the role of a [[transsexual]] person in [[Pedro Almodóvar|Almodóvar]]'s ''[[Law of Desire]]''.<ref>''The Guardian'' (August 13, 2006). [http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1844362,00.html 'Sex was my way of coping with death'] (interview with Pedro Almodóvar). Retrieved on 2008-06-14.</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Maura, Carmen}} [[Category:1945 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Goya Award winners]] [[Category:Spanish movie actors]] [[Category:Spanish television actors]] [[Category:Spanish stage actors]] [[Category:Spanish voice actors]] [[Category:Actors from Madrid]] {{actor-stub}}